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Albemarle is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals. Our products and services enhance the value of our customers’ end products by improving performance, providing essential product attributes, lowering cost and simplifying processing. We sell a highly diversified mix of products to a wide range of customers, including: manufacturers of consumer electronics, building and construction materials, automotive parts, packaging, pharmachemicals and agrichemicals, and petroleum refiners. With over 4,100 employees in 46 locations around the world, we serve more than 3,400 customers throughout 100 countries. Our operations are managed and reported as three business segments: Polymer Additives, Catalysts and Fine Chemicals.
BASF’s Catalysts division is the world’s leading supplier of environmental and process catalysts. The group offers exceptional expertise in the development of technologies that protect the air we breathe, produce the fuels that power our world and ensure efficient production of a wide variety of chemicals, plastics and other products. By leveraging our industry-leading R&D platforms, passion for innovation and deep knowledge of precious and base metals, BASF Catalysts develops unique, proprietary catalyst and adsorbent solutions that drive customer success.
Grace Davison Refining Technologies develop and manufacture FCC catalysts and additives that enable refiners to increase profits by improving yields and product quality. Our catalysts allow the profitable processing of a wide range of feedstocks, from low metals feeds to heavy crude oil. In addition, we offer catalysts for maximisation of propylene and LCO. Grace Davison is also a leading supplier of FCC additives. These include additives to reduce SOx and NOx emissions, as well as lowering sulphur content in gasoline and diesel fuel. We also offer ZSM-5 additives for maximising propylene and gasoline octane, and additives to promote CO combustion.
Topsoe has developed process technologies and catalysts for virtually all areas of hydroprocessing and our catalysts and technologies are in operation in plants worldwide.
Topsoe's refining competencies
Through Topsoe's extensive hydroprocessing research and development we offer
- a broad catalyst portfolio and tailor-made technologies for revamps and
grassroots units
- in-depth knowledge of reactor fluid dynamics and designs for reactor internals
- expertise in graded bed catalyst design for pressure drop abatement
Topsoe's refining experience extends to related industries offering solutions for hydrogen supply, sulphur management and NOx emission control – SCR DeNOx.
Newton’s is specialized in providing custom design Dryer dimensioned for the
specific constrains and requirements and optimizing of existing drying units for
refineries, gas field production and chemical and petrochemical industries.
Faced with ever-increasing demands for quality, Newton’s provides their
technological expertise throughout their engineering
projects - from the design of installations right through to the supply of
consumables adapted to each customer’s specific needs – notably by:
> designing new installations (Process Design Package),
> auditing existing units (salt driers, sweetening units, etc.) and proposing
customers recommendations for improvements (load plan, distribution, etc.),
> supplying support and long-term performance monitoring (follow-up analysis
of process data, operating technical assistance, etc.
Based in Munich, Süd-Chemie AG is a global leader in the field of specialty chemistry. It develops, produces and markets high-powered catalysts as well as adsorbents and additives for multiple uses. All products promote sparing, efficient and intelligent use of natural resources, making an essential contribution to the value chains in a large number of industries, including the chemical, oil, food processing, consumer goods and foundry industries, as well as the sectors of water treatment and environmental technology.
In 2008, the company reported consolidated sales of €1.191 billion (2007: €1.075 billion), of which approximately 80% were generated outside Germany. Profit from operations (EBIT) amounted to €117.1 million (2007: €100.8 million). In an economically challenging environment, the company plans to generate group sales of between €1.15 and €1.2 billion in 2009, representing a drop of not more than 4% compared to 2008, and an EBIT of between €95 and €100 million. At the end of 2008, Süd-Chemie Group had more than 6,513 employees at 80 sales and production sites worldwide, of which 1,669 were employed in Germany. The company is divided into the two divisions of Adsorbents and Catalysts. Each division consists of several business units.
For over 95 years, UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has been a leader in developing and commercializing technology in the oil refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries. UOP's principal products offered to these industries are licensed processes, catalysts, molecular sieve adsorbents, modular plants and key mechanical equipment. Supporting these products is a broad array of engineering and technical services that facilitate successful design, installation and operations. UOP currently holds more than 2,500 active patents as a result of its dedicated research and development commitment. For more information, go to http://www.uop.com.
Z&J is a well established company since 1873 with multiple skills in valve technologies ranging from butterfly valves to large diameter slide valves. Its core technology competence lies in manufacturing and supply of valves for refining processes such as e.g. FCC, Ethylene, delayed coking and pipelines . Z&J, is proud to announce that CNOOC is using Z&J Unheading Technology on their Foster Wheeler licensed coker, the largest Delayed Coking Unit the world.
Z&J is synonym of German Engineering Innovation.
