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Axens
Activities and markets
Axens groups, in a single entity, the activities of process licenser, designer of units and associated services, and supplier of advanced products (catalysts and adsorbents) and services for the refining, petrochemicals and gas markets.
Axens makes use of the complementarities between the industrial development of processes and of catalysts to offer its customers in downstream oil a comprehensive line of innovative technologies and high-added-value services.
Highlights of 2007
In a context that is still buoyant due to improvements in fuel quality, the conversion of heavy fractions, biofuels and petrochemicals, Axens enjoyed a number of successes in the market for refining and petrochemical technologies and related catalysts.
In particular, the company brought to market a new range of high-performance hydrocracking catalysts, selected for new "grass-roots” complex technologies. A large number of customers from around the globe are putting their trust in this new range.
Finally, for the implementation of its unique Esterfip-HTM technology for the production of biodiesel by heterogeneous catalysis, Axens received the Chemical Engineering magazine’s Kirkpatrick Award, given to the most outstanding process of the year. This prize, awarded biennially by the American Chemical Engineering magazine since 1933, recognizes “farreaching innovations in terms of process chemical engineering and new product development”. Innovations are judged both with respect to the merits of the development itself and the difficulty of the problems encountered and overcome throughout the process. The winner is chosen by an international panel made up of chemical engineering specialists from American and European universities. This is the first time that a French company has won the Kirkpatrick Award.
Contact
AXENS
Corinne Garriga - Communication Manager
89, boulevard Franklin Roosevelt
BP 50802
92 508 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex - France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 14 21 00
Fax: +33 (0)1 47 14 24 98
www.axens.net
information@axens.net