Petrochemistry

Ethylene / Propylene

The new coldbox is prepared for lifting – part of the expansion and modernization of cracker facilities and the petrochemical refrigeration system to increase ethylene and propylene production by 50,000 tpa

  • Client: OMV Refining & Marketing
  • Location: Burghausen / Germany
  • Scope of work:
    • Basic engineering
    • Detail engineering
    • Construction supervision
    • Commissioning support
  • Inbetriebnahme: 2022

ISO C4 plant

Greenfield plant producing high-purity isobutene from the feedstock of the metathesis plant; incl. storage tanks and railcar loading station; first application of a newly developed technology from OMV and BASF worldwide

  • Client: OMV Deutschland GmbH
  • Location: Burghausen / Germany
  • Scope of work:
    • Detail engineering
    • Procurement
    • Construction supervision
    • Commissioning support
  • Commissioning: 2020 

Pilot plant for special synthetic rubber

Engineering and construction of a pilot plant to produce synthetic rubber S-SBR (solution styrene-butadiene rubber). The plant is designed to develop new rubber materials for high performance tires in shorter test procedures with significant resource and primary energy savings.

  • Client: Trinseo Deutschland GmbH
  • Location: Schkopau / Germany
  • Scope of work:
    • Basic engineering incl. cost calculation
    • Early work program incl. assistance for regulatory permitting
    • Detail engineering
    • Procurement services
    • Site support
    • Commissioning support
  • Commissioning: 2018

PE/PP Granules Depolymerization Plant

3D-view of the CATPOL plant at the Mitteldeutsches Paraffinwerk Webau GmbH at Webau / Germany
General 3D-view

Design and construction of process plant for the production of 4,000 mty fully synthetic waxes from polyethylene and polypropylene by depolymerization. The newly developed CATPOL process allows the production of very different waxes.

  • Client: Mitteldeutsches Paraffinwerk Webau
  • Location: Webau, Germany
  • Scope of work:
    • Process optimization
    • Revised basic engineering
    • Cost optimization plan
    • Authority engineering
    • Detail engineering
    • Procurement on behalf and account of customer
    • Cost control and expediting
    • Construction and installation supervision
    • Commissioning
  • Commissioning: 2016

Reconstruction Butadiene Plant

Reconstruction of the butadiene production plant incl. capacity increase

  • Client: OMV AG
  • Location: Schwechat / Austria
  • Scope of work:
    • FEED
    • Basic engineering
    • Detail engineering
    • Procurement
    • Construction and installation supervision
    • Commissioning support
  • Commissioning: 2014

Wax Moulding Plant

Capacity extension of an existing wax moulding plant for candle manufacturer, pharmaceutical, cosmetical and food industry

  • Client: Alexandria Mineral Oils Company (AMOC)
  • Location: Alexandria / Ägypten
  • Scope of work:
    • Basic Engineering
    • Detail Engineering
    • Procurement and supply of new components
    • Adaption of the existing cooling system
    • Exchange of the Control system (PLC)
    • Construction supervision
    • Commissioning support
  • Commissioning: 2014

Polypropylene pilot plant

Revamp of the polypropylene plant on the Borstar process

  • Client: Borealis Polyolefine GmbH
  • Location: Schwechat / Austria
  • Scope of work:
    • Detailed engineering for civil/structural, electrical/I&C, equipment and piping
    • Process support
    • Construction supervision
    • Commissioning support
  • Commissioning: 2010

Polyethylene Black Coloring

General planning for the extension of a polyethylene plant with a black coloring. The feedstock is received from the PE plant co-planned by Pörner in 2005.

  • Client: Borealis Polyolefine GmbH
  • Location: Schwechat / Austria
  • Scope of work:
    • Authority engineering
    • Investment cost estimate
    • Basic engineering
    • Detailed engineering
    • Construction supervision
    • Commissioning support
  • Commissioning: 2008

Plastic Compounding Plant

Capacity expansion of a polymere compounding plant, built in 1997, for the production of PE- and PP-compounds with filler contents up to 70% (e.g. glass fiber, talc, glass beads, BaSO4), semiconductive compounds (PP, PE, PS), master batches for various applications (coloring, flame-retardant, …), high purity and food grades, compounds of specialities and many more.

  • Client: RP Compounds GmbH
  • Location: Schkopau / Germany
  • Scope of work:
    • Detail engineering
    • Procurement
    • Construction and installation supervision
    • Commissioning 
  • Commissioning: 2006

Plastic Recycling Plant MBA

Installation of a recycling plant for production of 30.000 t pure plastics out of 40.000 t electronic scrap and wastes from car recycling

  • Client: MBA Polymers Austria
  • Location: Kematen a.d. Ybbs / Austria
  • Scope of work:
    • General planning
    • Engineering for mechanics, instrumentation and control
    • Construction supervision
  • Commissioning: 2006

Polyethylene Plant

Installation of a polyethylene-large-scale plant with the Borstar-process

  • Client: Borealis AG
  • Location: Schwechat / Austria
  • Scope of work:
    • Detailed engineering for civil engineering and electric
    • Procurement support
    • Construction supervision
    • Site management
  • Commissioning: 2005

Polymeric Fibre Pilot Plant

Installation of a pilot plant for polymeric fiber production

  • Client: Fraunhofer Institut für Silikatforschung
  • Location: Würzburg / Germany
  • Scope of work:
    • Project management
    • Detailed engineering
    • Procurement
    • Construction management
    • Acceptance tests/Tests
  • Commissioning: 2005

Plastics Refinement Plant PBT/CBT

Installation of a plastics refinement plant

  • Client: Cyclics Europe
  • Location: Schwarzheide / Germany
  • Scope of work:
    • Detailed engineering
    • Procurement
    • Site management
    • Commissioning support
  • Commissioning: 2004 

Melamine Plants

General planning of the installation of a melamine production plant acc. to a OMV owned process incl. waste water and off gas treatment plants. For synergy reasons 2 plants at the same time were erected, one in Linz/Austria and one in Castellanza/Italy

  • Client: OMV Agrolinz Melamin; AMI Agrolinz Melamin Italia
  • Location: Linz / Austria; Castellanza / Italy
  • Scope of work:
    • General planning:
    • Basic engineering
    • Detailed engineering
    • Procurement support
    • Construction supervision
    • Commissioning support
    • Creation of an industry model
  • Commissioning: 1999