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Company Name: Axens

Company Type: Technical solutions

Company Profile

Axens was formed on July 1, 2001 through the merger of IFP's technology licensing division with Procatalyse Catalysts & Adsorbents. Axens is a refining, petrochemical and natural gas market focused company offering market-leading products including processes, catalysts, adsorbents and equipment, backed by nearly fifty years of R&D and industrial success.

Axens is a world leader in several areas, such as:

• petroleum hydrotreating & hydroconversion,
• FCC gasoline desulfurization,
• catalytic reforming,
• BTX (benzene, toluene, xylenes) production & purification,
• selective hydrogenation,
• Claus and Tail Gas Treatment (TGT).

Axens is a subsidiary of IFP, world leader in petroleum related research & development..

Axens NA was founded on Jan. 1, 2002 through the merger of IFPNA and Procatalyse US.

About Company

Mission
Our primary objective is to enhance customer performance through commercially-proven technical solutions.

Vision
Axens' ambition is to become the clear benchmark in technologies, products and services for the refining and petrochemical sectors and to be a major player in gas liquefaction and gas conversion.

Strategy
Our vocation is to become a pole for consolidation resulting from:

our strong technology foundation,
our voluntary policy of growth,
our low debt ratio,
the strong support that we have from our shareholder.

This aspiration is reinforced by our position as one of the very few companies offering technologies, catalysts, adsorbents and services and by our strong flow of innovations from continued R & D. Axens has a proactive strategy to enlarge our offer by external growth as well as by developing our internal offer of integrated services linked to product life-cycle management, operator training, process optimization and advanced process control.