Collin Zander on Fixing the Turnaround Crisis: From Nuclear Discipline to Real-Time Maintenance Insights

This week at KEWAZO, we welcomed a guest we were genuinely pleased to host. Colin Xander, North America Turnaround Director at INEOS Styrolution, sat down with Artem Kuchukov, KEWAZO’s CEO for a wide-ranging conversation on turnarounds (TA) and the practical realities that determine whether they succeed or stall.

Starting with a comparison between naval overhauls and chemical industry turnarounds, the discussion moved swiftly into the trust gap created by inaccurate data, the value of micro, field ready lessons learned, and the day to day mechanics of scope and risk management. From Power BI driven productivity tracking and electronic permitting to scaffolding cost control, the exchange stayed grounded in the levers that teams can actually pull.

A question, why past work plans often aren’t reused, opened up a deeper point about organisational memory, standardisation, and execution.

The takeaway was clear: beyond tools and methods, the real differentiators are culture and decision making who decides, on what basis, and how consistently those decisions are carried through.