Houston and Rueil-Malmaison, 23 October 2025,
Ketjen Corporation and Axens SA today announced a change to Ketjen and Axens' ownership of and collaboration with Eurecat. Under the agreements, Ketjen will extend its collaboration with Eurecat on advanced catalyst technologies and services, including regeneration, rejuvenation, ex-situ sulfiding, and spent catalyst processing. In addition, Ketjen will sell its 50 percent ownership stake in Eurecat SA to Axens, along with Ketjen’s Isomerization Catalysts business. Following the completion of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, Axens will assume full ownership of Eurecat.
Eurecat is a world-leading services provider of regeneration, rejuvenation, recycling of spent catalysts along with ex-situ activation of fresh catalysts. Post-acquisition, Eurecat will continue serving the entire market, all operators, and all catalysts manufacturers, and will collaborate with Ketjen on advanced catalyst technologies as part of this long-term agreement.
As a result of these agreements, Ketjen’s relationship and collaboration with Eurecat will continue into the future. Our clients can expect Ketjen to continue to provide advanced FCC and HPC catalyst solutions for refinery applications, along with ongoing collaboration with Eurecat in regeneration, rejuvenation, ex-situ sulfiding, and spent catalyst processing
Through this acquisition, Axens intends to further advance catalyst circularity and ex situ activation on all catalysts, while also initiating new initiatives focused on reducing the carbon footprint in catalyst management and activation
About Ketjen
Ketjen provides advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. From fluidized catalytic cracking to clean fuels solutions, hydro-processing, organometallics, and curatives, Ketjen delivers safe and reliable solutions that maximize production performance and business value. Ketjen is a wholly owned subsidiary of Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), headquartered in Houston, Texas, serving global customers in 25 markets. For more information, visit www.ketjen.com.
Ketjen Media Contact: Romelia Hinojosa, media.relations@ketjen.com
About Axens
The Axens Group (www.axens.net) offers a complete range of solutions for the conversion of oil and biomass into cleaner fuels, the production and purification of major petrochemical intermediates, the chemical recycling of plastics, natural gas treatment and conversion options, water treatment and carbon capture. Their offer includes technologies, equipment, furnaces, modular units, catalysts, adsorbents and related services. Axens is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain, from feasibility studies to start-up and monitoring of units throughout their lifecycle. This unique position guarantees optimum performance and a reduced environmental footprint. Axens' international offering is based on highly qualified human resources, modern production facilities and an extensive global network for industrial, technical support and sales services. Axens is an IFP Energies Nouvelles Group company.
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Contact press: press@axensgroup.com
About Eurecat
Eurecat is a world-leading services provider for regeneration, rejuvenation, recycling of spent catalysts along with ex-situ activation of fresh catalysts. Eurecat also provides reactor services such as catalyst unloading as well as catalyst loading through its subsidiary Petroval. Eurecat is active throughout the entire catalyst life cycle in the refining, biofuel, petrochemical, and gas markets, with facilities in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. For more infomation, visit www.eurecat.com
Media Contacts
Ketjen: Romelia Hinojosa, media.relations@ketjen.com
Axens: Franck Frefield-Beilborn, franck.frefield-beilborn@axensgroup.com