Bulk & specialty chemicals

Bulk and specialty chemicals producers operate in a highly competitive business environment. Many companies try to improve processes by optimizing existing designs or using smaller stepwise improvements of specific process units(evolutionary design). The overall process scheme, however, is usually not changed, missing the opportunity for a big cost saving potential of breakthrough designs.

Typical business cases in which customers ask for PDC's support are:

• Development of next generation, lower cost, higher quality plant designs
  
• De-bottlenecking of existing processes
  
• Capacity increase of plants while minimizing additional investment
  
• Product quality improvement or achieving product specifications at the lowest possible cost