PRONTA Engineering

About · PRONTA Engineering

A young firm. A team that has spent half a lifetime on the plant floor.

PRONTA was born in Medellín in 2020, but the engineers who built it had already spent two decades solving problems inside industrial plants. That is the combination we offer: the agility of a small firm and the judgment of people who have already watched the thing you are being sold today fail.

Two engineers reviewing drawings in the field

How we get hired

One line the specific
problem
All six with a single
point of contact

Most start with one and end up opening the next.

208

Projects delivered

42

Clients

6

Countries

+15

Average years of experience among our engineers

Who we are

Independent engineering, with our hands in the plant.

PRONTA Engineering S.A.S. is an engineering firm based in Medellín, Antioquia. We work on industrial plants, wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), and biogas recovery projects, in Colombia and outside it.

The firm was incorporated in 2020, and that date says little about who runs the projects. The team averages more than fifteen years of experience in industrial project development, and several of our engineers have more than twenty years working for industry: in operations, in installation, in commissioning, and on the nights when something would not start up.

That changes the conversation. We do not walk into your plant to learn how a process works: we come to look at yours with trained judgment and to tell you what is limiting your operation, even when the answer is not the one you were hoping to hear.

Two engineers reviewing information during a plant visit

We measure before we recommend. It is the only thing that makes us independent.

A good share of the projects that reach us begin with a purchase that did not solve the problem: a well-built piece of equipment installed on top of an assessment nobody ran. We do not recommend a technology we have not first characterized in your own operation. The decision is made with your plant's numbers, not a catalog's.

What that means in practice
We compare alternatives from different manufacturers using data we collect ourselves, and we show you the whole comparison, including the ones we ruled out and why.
And when something has to be built
We also design and build equipment when the project calls for it. The difference is the order: measurement and plant assessment first, then the decision about what gets installed.

How we work

Four things we do not negotiate.

These are not values for a wall. They are the rules we apply when a project gets hard.

01

Data before opinion

If we did not measure it, we do not claim it. And if the data contradicts what we expected, the recommendation changes, not the data.

02

Say it even when it is unwelcome

If your problem is not our line of work, we say so and point you to who can solve it. Losing a contract costs less than handing over a result that is of no use.

03

Sustainability with numbers

A waste stream turned into energy, a consumption figure that drops, an emission brought under control. We care about the kind of sustainability you can measure and that also pencils out financially.

04

Verify what we deliver

We measure again with the system running. We hand you evidence that the result was met, in a document you can put in front of your board or the environmental authority.

The team

Who you will be working with.

At PRONTA there is no sales executive between you and the engineer. You talk directly to the person who will answer for the project.

CEO

Jesica Gaviria

Runs the firm and the relationship with clients. She takes part in defining the scope of every project and in reviewing the deliverables before they go out.

jesica.gaviria@epronta.com

Process, Energy & Environment Lead

Julián Cardona

Technical lead for the testing, odor control, ventilation, and biogas lines. He leads field characterization and the comparison of technology alternatives.

julian.cardona@epronta.com

International Projects Director

Juan Carlos Gutiérrez

Leads projects outside Colombia and the multidisciplinary coordination of industrial plants: layout, capacity, detailed engineering, and commissioning.

juan.gutierrez@epronta.com
Project engineers

Process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control. The team is built around what each project demands, not the other way around.

Accredited laboratories

Laboratory analyses are run by partner laboratories accredited under ISO/IEC 17025, in Colombia and abroad depending on the technique required.

Certified professionals

Process safety studies are carried out by certified professionals who work with us, with PRONTA's engineering behind them so the recommendations can actually be implemented.

Where we work

Based in Medellín. Projects on three continents.

We work in Spanish and in English, with deliverables under whatever standards you or your parent company require.

Colombia Antioquia, Bogotá, Córdoba, and the coast. Utilities, general industry, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical, and mining.
United States Ventilation studies and CFD modeling for the plants of a multinational consumer packaged goods company.
Germany Engineering for a nuclear fuel processing plant, under safety and radiation protection standards.

Sectors we have worked in

The technique changes little from one sector to the next; what changes are the applicable regulatory requirements and the tolerance for risk. That is why the first step is always to understand yours.

Sectors
Utilities and sanitation · General industry · Consumer packaged goods · Pharmaceutical · Energy · Mining and metals
Languages and standards
Spanish and English. Deliverables under ASTM, EPA, NIOSH, ISO, NFPA, API, EU-GMP, and the applicable Colombian regulations.

Where to start

The cheapest way to find out what is holding you back.

Engineering team and plant staff reviewing findings during a walkthrough
Plant assessment

What it includes

One of our engineers walks into your operation, looks at process, production, and machinery, and hands you a short, direct report on what is limiting your growth today. The walkthrough covers the scope we agree on: the whole operation or the area that worries you.

How it ends

The real bottleneck identified with data from your own plant, recommendations ranked by impact and by what they cost to carry out, and a closing conversation with you and your team. Not a document that shows up by email.

Contact

Get to know us in a conversation, not in a brochure.

Tell us what is happening in your plant. The first conversation costs nothing and ends with something concrete: a read on the problem and a possible path forward. If it is not our line of work, we will tell you that too.

pronta@epronta.com

Medellín, Antioquia · Colombia

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