List of Sponsors

BD Energy

BD Energy Systems, LLC – a world leader in turn-key revamp solutions is based out of Houston, Texas, USA. Our scope of work is turn-key EPC revamps and modernizations of high temperature furnaces and syngas plants which typically begins with a detailed process study or plant evaluation from BD Energy Systems and Parrish Process Services (part of BD Energy Systems, LLC). BD Energy Systems has executed more than 190 successful projects globally on Ammonia, Methanol and Hydrogen plants of various licensor designs including refinery furnace revamps.
Our executed projects include: Plant Relocations, Plant Relocation Economics, Furnace Revamps & Modernizations, Furnace / Plant Optimization - for energy savings, production increase, NOx Reduction & Retrofits and reliability improvements. Additional services includes - Plant Evaluations/Plant Audits, Turnaround Planning, Construction / Technical advisory services, Training, Commissioning and Start-up Services.

Begg Cousland

Begg Cousland Envirotec Limited specialises in Mist Elimination and Air Pollution Control Equipment as used in Fertiliser & Chemical Plants. The Knitted Wiremesh and Candle Filters remove contaminant liquids from process gas, and control atmospheric emissions. We offer optimum designs of filtration & gas scrubbing systems, including our unique Rotary Brush scrubber for Prilling Towers, Granulators, Dryers, Evaporators, Neutralisers etc. in AN, TAN, CAN, Urea & NPK plants.

Belleli Energy - Walter Tosto

The Tosto Group consists of three major Companies: Walter Tosto SpA, its subsidiary Walter Tosto WTB Srl and Belleli Energy CPE Srl, recognized worldwide as leading manufacturers of critical equipment for Ammonia, Urea and Methanol markets, besides Oil&Gas, Petrochemical, Gas Monetization and Nuclear industries.
The manufacturing activities are carried out in the companies’ facilities located in Chieti and Ortona - Italy (Walter Tosto SpA), Bucharest - Romania (Walter Tosto WTB) and in Mantua - Italy (Belleli Energy CPE). For Ammonia, Urea and Methanol markets the 3 companies supply critical items such as Ethylene Oxide Reactors, Methanol Reactors, Urea Reactors, Urea Pool reactors, Urea Scrubber, Urea HP Strippers, Waste Heat Boilers and Ammonia Converters.

Casale

Established in 1921, Casale greatly contributed to the history of ammonia production and nowadays is a world leading licensor and engineering contractor for the production of   ammonia, urea, melamine, methanol, syngas.  In 2014, following an acquisition from Borealis (formerly GPN), Casale expanded its portfolio to include also the processes for the production of nitric acid, AN, UAN, and multi-nutrient fertilizer products, including their granulation technology.
Through its sister company, Casale Project, Casale is also in a position to extend the services offered up to EPC contracting.

Clariant

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Clariant’s Catalysts business unit is a leading global developer and producer of catalysts for industrial processes since the acquisition of Süd-Chemie in 2011. With a total of 16 production sites (incl. Joint Ventures) and 11 R&D and technical centers it is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Approximately 1970 employees serve customers around the world. Aimed at delivering sustainable value to customers, Clariant’s catalysts and adsorbents are designed to increase production throughput, lower energy consumption, and reduce hazardous emissions from industrial processes. The broad portfolio also includes products that enable the use of alternative feedstock for chemical and fuel production.  

Blasch Precision Ceramics

Blasch Precision Ceramics is an advanced refractory manufacturer specializing in close tolerance, complex shapes. We offer sophisticated, custom solutions that improve plant performance, efficiency and costs in challenging environments.

Blasch’s StaBlox™ Reformer Tunnel System is a revolutionary, mortarless approach to primary reformer flue gas tunnels that improves reliability, gas flow, temperature distribution and is 15x faster to install than brick and mortar tunnels.

Greens Combustion

Greens Combustion Limited, based in the UK was acquired by Airoil Flaregas Private Limited in 2015 and together focus globally on the refinery, petrochemical and fertiliser markets supplying burners, thermal oxidisers and flare systems. In-house manufacturing capabilities alongside an international supply chain operation provides for flexible manufacturing options and a newly opened comprehensive combustion research and testing centre allows burner test firing from 0.5 to 40 MW for gas, liquid and solid fuel applications.
Greens’ expertise is not only in the supply of new equipment but also the study of installed equipment which is required to be revamped, upgraded or replaced.

Haldor Topsoe A/S

Haldor Topsoe is a world leader in catalysis and surface science. We are committed to helping our customers achieve optimal performance. We enable our customers to get the most out of their processes and products, using the least possible energy and resources, in the most responsible way. This focus on our customers’ performance, backed by our reputation for reliability, makes sure we add the most value to our customers and the world. Learn more at www.topsoe.com

Johnson Matthey

Johnson Matthey is a global leader in science that enables a cleaner and healthier world and our vision is for a world that’s cleaner and healthier; today and for future generations. With over 200 years of sustained commitment to innovation and technological breakthroughs, we improve the function, performance and safety of our customers’ products. We use science to create innovative products and our science has a global impact in areas such as low emission transport, pharmaceuticals, chemical processing and making the most efficient use of the planet’s natural resources. One in every three new cars carries an emission control catalyst from Johnson Matthey; toxic carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons go into the catalyst, cleaner air comes out. Our catalysts stop around 20 million tonnes of pollutants in their tracks every year.  Today more than 14,000 Johnson Matthey professionals collaborate with our network of customers and partners to make a real difference to the world around us. We remain committed to tackling new challenges to build a cleaner and healthier future for the generations to come.

Kimre, Inc

For more than 45 years, Kimre engineers and application specialists have been solving process and gas stream emission problems in plants around the world. At Kimre, we design, manufacture and install complete systems, Fiber Bed Candle filters and high-performance interlaced mesh mist eliminators. We offer engineering services, field service and pilot testing. Our combined experience results in a superior understanding of gas and vapor stream separation and mass/heat transfer. From the first inquiry to the final installation, we will meet our commitment to deliver a quality engineered product that will exceed your expectations.

Visit us at Kimre.com to learn more about our products and services:

B-GON® Mist Eliminators
AEROSEP® Multi-Stage Aerosol Separation Systems
KON-TANE® Scrubber Tower Packing
DRIFTOR® Drift Eliminator for cooling towers
LIQUI-NOMEX® Liquid/Liquid Coalescer Pads
SXF™ Semi- Cross Flow Contactors
KIMRE Candle Fiber-Bed Coalescing Filters

Linde Engineering

Your partner for the production and processing of gases.

Linde Engineering is a leading player in the international plant engineering business. Across the globe, we have delivered more than 4,000 plants, covering every step in the gas processing plant lifecycle. Our vast product and service portfolio includes syngas and hydrogen applications for the production of ammonia, methanol and other chemicals. 

Discover how we can contribute to your success at www.linde-engineering.com

P & P Industries AG

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Saipem

Saipem is a leading company in engineering, drilling and construction of major projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors. It is “One-Company” organized in five business divisions (Offshore E&C, Onshore E&C, Offshore Drilling, Onshore Drilling and XSight, dedicated to conceptual design). Saipem is a global solution provider with distinctive skills and competences and high-tech assets, which it uses to identify solutions aimed at satisfying customer requirements. Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, it is present in over 60 countries worldwide and has 32 thousand employees of 120 different nationalities.
Saipem has licensed more than 130 units with its proprietary Snamprogetti™ Urea Technology and it has designed and built over 30 major ammonia/urea complexes.

SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN NITEC GmbH

Schoeller-Bleckmann Nitec (SBN), a member of the Christof-Group, are specialists in the fabrication of high pressure heatexchangers and reactors for the fertilizer industry and particularly for ammonia and urea plants.

Comprehensive material knowledge and decades of know-how in the design and production of sophisticated pressure vessels in either monowall or multilayer construction result in optimum implementation of customers’ requirements, while focusing on highest possible quality in design and finish as well as on-time delivery.

As a leading manufacturer of high-pressure equipment, SBN can also offer its customers special services on site, for example the welding of high-pressure urea piping, repair of heat exchangers or the dismantling and new installation of equipment.

Stamicarbon

Stamicarbon is a global leader in the design, licensing and project development of urea plants and a supplier of high-end equipment and services for the petrochemical industry. A pioneering company specialized in the fertilizer industry with a vision to help enable the world to feed itself and improve the quality of life. Stamicarbon applies its expertise and experience in several markets: crop nutrition and fertilizers, air quality and emission reduction and technologies for the integration of urea and adjacent processes, such as melamine and nitric acid.
For more than 70 years we have been at the forefront of developments and innovations by designing reliable, safe, efficient and sustainable plants. There are around 260 licensed urea plants (more than half of the installed world capacity) and some 110 revamped projects around the world already using our technology. We work closely with research institutes, contractors, suppliers and our licensees to further enhance and develop technologies for the benefit of our customers, but also to create opportunities for adding nutrients to crops, replenish arable land and increase crop yields.
Part of the Maire Tecnimont Group, the Stamicarbon headquarters is in Sittard, The Netherlands, with representative offices in Russia and China and a sales office in the USA. Together with our excellent network of reputable partners we can provide technologies, equipment, products and related services needed to improve the food supply of the world.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions is one of the world’s leading designer and supplier of plants for the chemical, petrochemical, coke, minerals and mining industries. For the Nitrogen and Syngas Industries, thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions offers own and licensed technologies and EPC competence for all kinds of fertilizer plants including ammonia, urea, ammonium nitrate, DAP etc. as well as nitric acid, hydrogen and explosives or own processes for the production of Methanol. Our capacities range from 10 mtpd up to 10,000 mtpd using unique single train solutions such as our uhde® dual pressure processes for ammonia and nitric acid or our AdWinMethanol® process. For greenhouse gas reduction in nitric acid plants, the EnviNOx® system is available. High pressure equipment, prefabricated isometrics (piping) and valves for the urea industries are offered from thyssenkrupp’s own manufacturing branch Uhde High Pressure Technologies and the world’s leading Fluidized Bed Granulation Technology for urea is licensed by thyssenkrupp Fertilizer Technology. Our customers benefit from cost-effective high-tech solutions in construction of new production units, improvement of existing plants and the entire range of services for the full life cycle of their plants. That’s what we call 360° Service.

Toyo Engineering Corporation

Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO) is one of the world’s leading engineering contractors. Since its foundation in 1961, TOYO has actively deployed Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) businesses, and successfully delivered large and complex projects in more than 50 countries, focusing on the segment of energy, oil refining, petrochemicals & chemicals, oil & gas development, infrastructure, environment, and other manufacturing facilities. In addition, TOYO has been a leader in the urea industries as a urea process licensor as well as EPC contractor, and provides the effectively optimized fertilizer complex by integrating with TOYO’s own urea process.

Umicore Jewelry and Industrial Metals Ammonia Oxidation Solutions

Umicore is a global materials technology and recycling group. Umicore generates the majority of its revenues and dedicates most of its R&D efforts to clean technologies. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on an ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.

Umicore provides comprehensive services for fertilizer producers:
• Technology leader for tailor made catalyst solutions for ammonia oxidation process
• State of the art of N2O abatement solutions
• Essential services: Technical consulting and support; Process simulation; Metals management; Logistic solutions; Trouble shooting
• The world’s leading recycler of complex waste streams containing precious and other valuable metals

AMETEK Land

AMETEK Land specializes in industrial infrared temperature measurement instruments. It’s latest innovation, the Near Infrared Borescope 3XR for steam reformer and cracker tube continuous temperature measurement and furnace optimisation and monitoring, provides a high resolution thermal image with real-time continuous high-accuracy temperature measurements of tube wall and refractory wall surface.

Belleli Energy

The Tosto Group consists of three major Companies: Walter Tosto SpA, its subsidiary Walter Tosto WTB Srl and Belleli Energy CPE Srl, recognized worldwide as leading manufacturers of critical equipment for Ammonia, Urea and Methanol markets, besides Oil&Gas, Petrochemical, Gas Monetization and Nuclear industries.
The manufacturing activities are carried out in the companies’ facilities located in Chieti and Ortona - Italy (Walter Tosto SpA), Bucharest - Romania (Walter Tosto WTB) and in Mantua - Italy (Belleli Energy CPE). For Ammonia, Urea and Methanol markets the 3 companies supply critical items such as Ethylene Oxide Reactors, Methanol Reactors, Urea Reactors, Urea Pool reactors, Urea Scrubber, Urea HP Strippers, Waste Heat Boilers and Ammonia Converters.

BHDT

Decades of experience make BHDT well known as a manufacturer and reliable partner of high pressure valves (only out of forged material) , all kind of fittings and prefabricated HP isometrics (spools) especially for Urea and Ammonia plants . Special know-how in the field of material science (Austenitic steel 316LUG , 25Cr-22Ni-2Mo , Duplex and Superduplex) for manufacturing of such high pressure equipment in cooperation with all major licensors.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering

“Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering offers reliable technologies gained from engineering synergies realized within Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group. We contribute to the development of society by supplying numerous Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects covering large-scale infrastructure, such as chemical plants, environmental plants, Decarbonization technologies including CO2 Recovery and transportation systems, in many countries and regions around the world.”

Navigance

Navigance offers data-driven process optimization services for Methanol producers to increase profitability within weeks. The core is an artificial intelligence enabled software solution that uses production data to generate ‘real-time’ actionable advice for process control variable settings. Navigance combines data science know-how, catalytic and process expertise in a unique way to allow plant specific insights.

Sandvik

Founded in 1862 on a steelmaking innovation, Sandvik today is a world-leading high-tech engineering group focused on advanced materials. A producer and supplier of corrosion-resistant materials for demanding applications, the company continues to develop and produce material grades for enhanced productivity, energy efficiency and safe operation. In the fertilizers industry, we’ve long collaborated with our customers to pioneer corrosion-resistant alloys that reduce costs, secure uptime and reduce risk.

One example is Safurex®, a high-alloy duplex (austenitic-ferritic) stainless steel developed to withstand the corrosive environments present in the Stamicarbon urea process. The grade is characterizsed by good corrosion resistance to carbamate solutions both with oxygen and with little or no oxygen, excellent resistance to intergranular corrosion, excellent resistance to pitting and crevice corrosion and high resistance to stress corrosion cracking (SCC).

Another is a novel bi-metallic tubing with a bonded zirconium inner layer and stainless outer layer for corrosive nitric acid plants. And for urea plants, austenitic grades like Sandvik 2RE69 and 2RE10 last up to 35 years. Visit our virtual stand, listen to our speaker at the conference and get the full picture.

SCHMIDTSCHE SCHACK | ARVOS GmbH

ARVOS GmbH | SCHMIDTSCHE SCHACK is a leading and highly regarded supplier of components and systems for the petrochemical, chemical, refining & metallurgical industries. Decades of experience in process heat transfer for steam reforming processes generating synthesis gas have established ARVOS‘ technical reputation, leadership in the industry and recognition as a reliable partner. The company’s portfolio covers process gas coolers, waste heat recovery systems including convection coils, steam superheaters and HT shift gas boilers. Customized services are also provided such as revamp, upgrade and re-design as well as on-site assistance.

Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde GmbH

Ventilatorenfabrik Oelde GmbH, also known as “Venti Oelde”, a plant and component constructor, offers a wide range of products and services for the collecting, handling and filtering of air, vapours, gases, dust and air-borne solids. The manufacturing program includes industrial fans, dust collection plants, ventilating, heating and air-conditioning plants and recycling systems.

Walter Tosto

WALTER TOSTO SpA is a leading manufacturer of critical, long lead equipment for oil & gas, petrochemical and power & energy markets. We are able to fabricate heavy and large items, with no limitation in weight and dimension and ship them directly from our sea-front workshop located in the Ortona Port, on the Adriatic sea, in Italy. We design and manufacture heavy wall process equipment and heat transfer equipment: Hydrocracker and Hydrotreater Reactors, EO Reactors, Methanol Reactors, Polymerisation Reactor, Claus Reactor, CTL/GTL Fischer Tropsch Reactors, Oxycholrination rRactor, HP Pressure vessels, Separators, Ammonia converters.