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According to current refining issues, Axens' blockbusters are dealing with the needs for clean fuels. In very competitive market segments, HR series hydrotreating catalysts and Prime-G+ FCC gasoline desulfurization are the best one can get
 
 
HR 500 series with ACE™ technology
Axens’ advanced catalytic engineering (ACE) technology has been applied to the manufacture of a new series of hydrotreating catalytic materials – the HR 500 series of CoMo, CoMo-Ni, NiMo and hydrocracking pretreatment catalysts. Comprehensive adsorption modeling studies coupled with detailed feedstock and effluent analyses have led to the adaptation of manufacturing facilities to enable sub-micron level control in hydrotreating catalyst production. The ACE concept has afforded a new class of dual-activity products with significantly enhanced desulfurization activity and, as a bonus,
enhanced denitrogenation activity.

Axens’ HR 500 series catalysts, with ACE technology, exhibit a powerful attraction for organosulfur compounds. Used in combination with EquiFlow™ reactor internals and Catapac™ dense-loading technology, HR 500 series catalysts provide strong performance improvements for long-lasting, ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) production and vacuum gasoil (VGO) hydrotreatment.

 
 
Prime-G+
Since first being licensed, Axens' Prime-G+TM FCC gasoline desulfurization technology has been selected by 150 customers (end 2007) and has been established as the industry's benchmark process. The total licensed capacity exceeds 3.6 Million BPSD with more than half of the licensed units under commercial operations, making Prime-G+TM the leading technology for cracked naphtha desulfurization.

In 2003 Prime-G+TM Technology received the Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Honor Award from the US magazine Chemical Engineering

To ensure still further that customers receive the best available solution, Axens and BP have recently formed an alliance that enables Axens to offer exclusively BP's new OATS (Olefin Alkylation of Thiophenic Sulfur) process.