Axens is active in several domains of expertise and is recognized as a leading supplier of technologies, products, services, and equipment, guiding clients through performance, innovation, energy transition, and more.
Focusing on environmental goals with innovative air and water treatment solutions, capturing industrial pollutants and ensuring stringent compliance for a cleaner future.
From feasibility studies to unit start-up and follow-up throughout the entire unit life cycle, Axens Group is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain.
With decades of expertise, offering advanced, reliable, and cost-effective catalysts and adsorbents products for refining, petrochemicals, gas, alternative fuels, circular economy, and water treatment.
Tailored services from feasibility to start-up and ongoing support throughout the unit's life cycle, ensuring optimal performance, business success, and reduced environmental impact.
DimEne-B® - Dimerization towards high purity synthetic C₄ fraction
DimEne-B® supports the transition of the petrochemical industry towards chemicals. DimEne-B® is part of Axens Homogeneous Catalysis Portfolio, positioned to deliver large Butene-1 production capacity in a single train configuration by ethylene dimerization. This treatment specifically focuses in capacities larger than 150-200kta of Butene-1 per train with high selectivity level.
This treatment allows also to co-produce high purity Butene-2, which can be advantageously valorized in the petrochemicals field (metathesis, INA, MEK, Butadiene…) and produce synthetic rich olefins C₄ fraction.
Axens provides also DimEne-B® associated services such as technical consulting and studies, as well as technical project, engineering work and studies including surveys in the field of C₄ fraction production.
Deliver large Butene-1 production capacity in a single train configuration
Can be configured to produce synthetic high purity n-butenes from Ethylene
Key technology to convert Ethylene to Propylene via metathesis without butenes feedstocks
One other technology features of the Prime G+® is, being coupled with Axens’ Polyfuel® technology, to offer the possibility to turn Olefinic feedstock into high value Products. LPG and LCN Upgrading towardistillates while maintaining good quality gasoline.
CO2 capture: Lhoist joins ArcelorMittal France, IFP Energies nouvelles, Axens and Total in the dinamX project
Coordinated by Axens, the four-year dinamX “Demonstration and Innovative Applications of the DMX™ Process” project was launched by partners ArcelorMittal France, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and Total in 2020. Supported by the French Investments for the Future Program led by ADEME, dinamX is aimed at studying the application potential of DMX™ technology, stemming from IFPEN’s Research, for the decarbonization of blast furnace gases to new types of industrial CO₂ emitters.
Repsol, Axens, and IFPEN develop a new process to boost circular materials production
Repsol, Axens, a worldwide technology provider and IFPEN, the renowned French research and innovation player in the field of energy, have developed a pioneering and patented process to enhance the chemical recycling of plastic waste and boost circular materials production.
Axens and Sulzer alliance delivers an advanced FCC naphtha processing solution
Axens, an international provider of process technologies, catalysts, adsorbents and services and Sulzer Chemtech (GTC Technology), a global licensor of refinery and petrochemical process technologies, have formed an alliance to license an advanced process for FCC (fluid catalytic cracking) naphtha processing. The combined offering is based on Axens’ Prime-G+® hydrodesulfurization technology and Sulzer Chemtech’s GT-BTX PluS® extraction technology
Axens Signs Agreements for its Vegan® Technology with Aemetis for its Carbon Zero Project in Riverbank, California for the production of Renewable Diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Today Axens is pleased to announce that it has signed a license agreement for its Vegan® renewable hydroprocessing technology with Aemetis, Inc. for its “Carbon Zero 1” project in Riverbank, California.
Axens will supply a modular Prime-G+ ® unit to Raizen Buenos Aires Refinery
Raízen Argentina, Shell licensee, has selected Axens for the modular supply of a FCC gasoline hydrodesulphurization unit Prime-G+® in its Buenos Aires refinery.
Axens Signs an Agreement with Hengyi Industries to Provide FLEXICOKING™ Technology
Since the Alliance Agreement signed between ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing (EMCL) and Axens to provide FLEXICOKING™ technology in January 2020 (See Press Release here), it has been a great success as can be seen in the new license granted to Hengyi Industries' integrated complex in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei.
Residue Hydroconversion & Hydroprocessing
Thermal Process
Process Technologies
Equilibrium - MTDP-3 - ParamaX® Suite
MTDP-3 is an alternative to PxMax℠. This technology efficiently upgrades toluene into xylenes at equilibrium and on specification benzene. With a higher conversion per pass, it is ideal when no paraxylene separation facilities are foreseen.
Very high conversion per pass
> 20 years successfully operatedat multiple licensees' sites
Michelin, IFP Energies nouvelles, and Axens give a new dimension to the BioButterfly project
Launched in late 2012, the BioButterfly project aims to produce butadiene from ethanol from biomass (plants) in order to produce innovative synthetic rubbers that are more environmentally friendly.
Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage
Plastic Recycling
Oil Refining
Renewable Fuels & Bio-Based Chemicals
