The 11 Most Innovative Products and Solutions from Achema Honored

The innovation champions of Achema 2018 have been crowned. The eleven most innovative products have received the coveted Innovation Award out of around 100 entries. At the award ceremony, the prize winners and shortlist candidates celebrated with about 250 other guests.

21st annual Asia Refining Technology Conference (ARTC)

23.04.2018 - 25.04.2018

Event location: Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia

Pörner Group takes part at the international conference "21st annual Asia Refining Technology Conference (ARTC)". Meet and join us!

PRC Europe - Petrochemical and Refining Congress Europe

07.05.2018 - 08.05.2018

Event location: Berlin / Germany

EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft Leipzig holds a lecture at the PRC Europe: „Solvent Deasphalting Technology (SDA) - latest improvements and various applications for unconventional feedstock and products based on optimized refinery integration".

High-quality base oils from used oil

Recycling: New era for PURAGLOBE with Group III oils. In mid-2017 a new era began for the PURAGLOBE GmbH when for the first time, it is possible on world-wide scale to produce base oil of Group III quality out of used oil.

Commodity Markets Relax After Storms

During September 2017, world commodity prices rose by 5.2 %. Due to a further slight appreciation of the euro against the dollar, the increase in domestic currency amounted to only 4.2 %. Political and natural storms were responsible for this. The experts at Industriebank IKB ana...

OMV Turnaround 2017 in Schwechat successfully completed

Pörner Group modernizes parts of the FCC Plant. OMV was supported by the Pörner Group as engineering partner, in terms of maintenance and overhaul of the plants as well as in projects for modernizing and safeguarding the sustainable and future-viable operation of the refinery.

PCK shutdown with EDL on YouTube

Be live at FCC plant and crude oil distillation unit 1 revamp. In 2016 the shutdown named “kleiner 16” took place at the PCK refinery where EDL from Leipzig was actively involved. Watch the movies to it now on YouTube.

Indian Oil Company and Pörner Commission Bitumen Plant

In February 2017, IOCL commissioned together with the Pörner Group a new Biturox bitumen plant at Barauni Refinery near Patna in East India. This is the 4^th plant operated by the Indian company based on Biturox technology. Pörner provided the license and engineering se...

IRPC Europe

06.06.2017 - 08.06.2017

Event location: Vienna / Austria

Refineries are more and more interested in technologies for processing of heavy residues – the so called ‚bottom of the barrel‘. About its own technological solutions in this field Pörner Group will read a paper at the IRPC Europe.

Engineering services for industrial process plants

The Pörner Group supplies all engineering services for planning and realization of process plants out of one hand. The integrated engineering services range from process development, basic and detail engineering and procurement through to construction supervision and start-up:

Argus Africa Roads 2017

15.03.2017 - 17.03.2017

Event location: Mabuto / Mozambique

Vincent Frate, Senior Process Engineer at Pörner Group, will be speaker at the Argus Africa Roads with the titel "Quality Bitumen for Africa"

Iran Oil Show - 22nd Iran Intl Exhibition of Oil, Gas & Petrochemical

06.05.2017 - 09.05.2017

Event location: Tehran / Iran

Pörner Group together with EDL will have a booth within the Austrian pavilion.

Technologies and process know-how

The Pörner Group as a process-oriented engineering contractor offers advanced technologies to the world market and supplies complete process plants for: Bitumen Formaldehyde and formaldehyde derivatives Deasphalting (SDA) Solvent dewaxing / Wax deoiling plants Solvent extracti

Revamps / Modernizations of refineries

With REVAMPED by Pörner, the Pörner Group together with its subsidiary EDL Leipzig provides a clearly defined package of services to modernize process plants that have been in operation for a long time, and making them state of the art once again. The result is a plant that is

Biturox® Bitumen Plants

With 50 Biturox® Bitumen plants licensed (references) the Pörner Group is worldwide the market leader in bitumen oxidation technology. In its own research facilities Pörner develops tailored Biturox® concepts to meet international product standards utilizing the available crud

Solvent Extraction

This method is used to extract high-quality lube oils from vacuum distillates and deasphalted oil (DAO) from the SDA process. These side products were mainly used as softener and tender oil by the tire industry. They are now as highly toxic strictly prohibited. To meet the req

Solvent Deasphalting - SDA

Solvent deasphalting (SDA) is one of the most interesting bottom-to-barrel technologies as economic solution for the processing of heavy oils and residues. The Pörner subsidiary EDL offers a process that extracts heavy residues (vacuum, visbreaker, hydrocracker residues, heavy

BTX Aromatics Extraction

The demand of high-purity BTX aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, xylene) to synthesize petrochemical products is increasing constantly. To separate the BTX aromatics at the reformate splitter, the Pörner Group and its subsidiary EDL Leipzig have developed an innovative d

Dewaxing / Deoiling

Advanced processing methods (e.g. catalytic cracking) reduce the number of side products, such as aromatic hydrocarbons or paraffins/waxes. The lube and paraffin producers are thus forced to find new, more efficient dewaxing / deoiling technologies since increasingly efficient

Formaldehyde and -Derivatives Plants

As an EPCM or turn-key contractor Pörner Group sells, designs and builds plants of the formaldehyde technology family. Together with international licensors and technology partners the following production plants with offsite, utilities and infrastructure units can be offered:

Hydrogenation plants

Hydrogenation plants adapt the properties of the end products to the next process steps or the specification of the commercial products. The requirements for hydrogenation plants at refineries are very versatile. They comprise the removal of heteroatoms, such as sulfur, nitrog

Pörner Bitumen Packing System

The Pörner Bitumen Packing System is a complete logistic solution to make bitumen available at any time and at any location in the world. It enables the bitumen industry to produce, store and sell bitumen without being restrained by seasonal demand variations. The Pörner Bitum

Pörner Group Company Profile

EDL Company Profile

Company brochure of EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft in Leipzig / Germany. A company of the Pörner Group.

Pörner Biturox® Bitumen

Pörner Group is the world leader in bitumen technology with 50 licensed Biturox bitumen plants.

Pörner Bitumen Packing System

Pörner Group is the inventor of the innovative Bitumen Packing System for transport of bitumen in cold condition.

Formaldehyd- & -Derivatives

For more than 20 years Pörner Grimma has been liaising with renowned European licensors and experienced partners to build plants for the formaldehyde product family as an EPCM contractor.

Refineries representatives meet in Vienna at the CIS Summit

In times of low oil prices, refineries are particularly looking for possibilities to increase their productivity as well as the profitability. In the last November days refineries representatives of all over the world,...

Pörner Engineering Times 2016

Read in the Pörner newspaper how the concept „Anlagenbau 4.0“ is implemented in all fractals of the planning and how the Pörner Group almost simultaneously finalized seven large-scale projects for OMV in Schwechat / Austria and for the PCK Refinery in Schwedt / Germany.

Pörner, advisory board member of the Engineering Summit

Managing Director Peter Schlossnikel was appointed into the Engineering Summit 2017 advisory board.

The 50 Top plant manufacturer 2016

The Pörner Group is Austria's largest engineering company

Pörner Group – an Austrian Leading Company

Award giving ceremony in the Hofburg Vienna

EDL on TV about the official visit of entrepreneurs to Samara (Russia)

Saxon State Minister for Economic Affairs, Martin Dulig, visited Russia in the period from 17 to 21 October 2016. He was accompanied by a 41-member delegation of representatives from Saxony's politics and business, among..

Update: President of the Republic of Azerbaijan attended ground breaking ceremony of new Biturox® plant

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Andreas Pörner, CEO of Pörner Group, have attended on 19 September the ground breaking ceremony of a new Biturox® plant as part of reconstruction of the Heydar Aliyev Baku Oil Refinery.

Update: President of the Republic of Azerbaijan attended ground breaking ceremony of new Biturox® plant

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Andreas Pörner, CEO of Pörner Group, have attended on 19 September the ground breaking ceremony of a new Biturox® plant as part of reconstruction of the Heydar Aliyev Baku...

Magazine „25 years EDL“

The anniversary brochure „25 years EDL“ does not only describes recent project highlights, but also the comprehensive technology portfolio to produce high-quality products such as base oils, waxes and lubricants

EDL Leipzig successfully completes four revamp projects during PCK shutdown 2016

The ability of EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH (EDL), from Leipzig, Germany, as a revamp specialist for process plants was most recently demonstrated, at the TÜV shutdown at PCK Raffinerie GmbH Schwedt. PCK invested EUR 129m to modernize its FCC and crude oil distillation.

Pörner signed EPCM contract with SOCAR for a new Biturox® plant in Baku

On 2 August 2016, Elman Ismayilov, Director of Heydar Aliyev Refinery, and Andreas Pörner, Pörner Managing Director, signed an EPCM contract for a Biturox® plant in Baku / Azerbaijan.

MPW and Pörner Group laying the foundation for a wax production plant at Webau

On 22 July 2016 the foundation for a modern wax production plant was laid at Webau, Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutsches Paraffinwerk Webau GmbH (MPW) who, after years of research, developed a cutting-edge process for the production of waxes from plastic materials, entrusted Pörner Ing

Pörner To Cope with Three Major Revamps

In April 2016, at OMV in Schwechat (Austria), the TAR 2016 took place. Pörner Ingenieurgesellschaft Vienna, and its subsidiary EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft Leipzig, mechanically completed and handed over three revamp projects to OMV concurrently, during this stop.