Chemtech is likely to contribute to Brazil-USA agreement

The possibility of a comprehending agreement between Brazil and the USA in the area of bio-fuels has been taking up space in world news.  According to this agreement, Brazil would export ethanol to the USA and this would help reduce US dependence on oil and the deriving economical losses.

For the last few years Chemtech has been getting ready to provide the required technological support to ethanol plants in Brazil.  Thus, Chemtech would have a better understanding of the vast increase in the global demand for bio-fuels and apply cutting-edge technology to the ethanol industry.   

Solutions applied by Chemtech may help increase production in a plant and reduce costs with utilities by 2-4%, energy consumption in distillation units by 5-15%, and the variation in the final product quality by 50%, by obtaining the best possible performance from equipment.

The “Split-feed” project, developed by Chemtech and owned by Siemens and Dedini, leader in the sugar-ethanol market, compared to the distillation process of a traditional plant, might result in a R$ 10 million saving from the purchase of a boiler and another R$540 thousand per month in the consumption of steam.  This project is actually a process and a system for the production of ethanol by multiple-effect distillation used to reduce steam in distillation.  

Chemtech has also delivered another successful project for Siemens and Dedini, the LSC (Low Steam Consumption) Molecular Screen.  It has replaced traditionally used systems in dehydration process, in an attempt to ensure operational stability in face of the periodical production variations and considerably reduce operational costs involved in the production of anhydrous alcohol.

Using this technology Chemtech is ready to help in a possible Brazil-USA agreement. 

About Chemtech

Chemtech (www.chemtech-siemens.com) was founded by three chemical engineers, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1989.  It is specialized in services and IT solutions for process industries (oil & gas, petrochemical and chemical, metals and mining, paper & pulp) and food & beverages.  In March 2001, the company became a member of the Siemens group and it is now part of the IP (Industrial Plants) division of the I&S (Industrial Solutions and Services) group. Since then, Chemtech has started to interact with other Siemens divisions and to offer more complete and sophisticated solutions to its clients.

Chemtech has its head office in Rio de Janeiro and support offices in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Manaus, and Houston. 

Among Chemtech clients are Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco, and Petrobras.  It also works with the 10 largest companies in the petrochemical and chemical industry in Brazil, with the 5 largest paper companies, the 4 largest mining companies, 3 of the 5 largest steel companies, and 4 of the 6 largest consumer product companies, according to the ranking of Exame magazine.

In 2006, Chemtech was chosen the 3rd best company to work at in Brazil, ranked among the 30 best companies for women, and among the three best in companionship by the Great Place to Work Institute and by Revista Epoca.  And also the best IT & Telecom company according to GPTW.. It was also ranked, for the third consecutive year, among the 150 best companies according to Guia Exame – Você S/A, which also chose Chemtech as the 3rd best company in technology