1980 – 1988 Developed Ivorine (synthetic Ivory) following the US ban on importing ivory. This invention subsequently created an industry producing 2.5 tons of ivorine each month. The main market was the USA. Sponsored by Patti Boyd (wife of George Harrison) and John Lennon, Ben Bendien formed and expanded Juratone Ltd into 4 factories with offices in UK, Italy and the USA. Juratone had a warehousing/ distribution facility in Philadelphia with

Served an Apprenticeship as a Mechanical Engineer with Midcast Numerical Control
Ltd (now Gardener Aerospace)
Was employed by Ford’s Motor Company for a short period of time, as a Tool &
cutter grinder/setter, where he was asked to set up a tool reclamation department.
This involved reclaiming cutting tools & selling them back to each department
concerned, thereby sustaining the need for such a department.
Worked at several other engineerin

Mr Snyder’s main period of employment was with WEA Manufacturing, the music
division of Time-Warner as an electro-mechanical engineering technologist. He was
hands-on for the last 20 years as both a theoretical and practical engineer preferring
not to be office bound except when necessary to do daily reports, make drawings or
meetings. He generally worked with a team of about 40 out of a host of 3500.