Trade press release, Oct. 16, 2009 - 10:08 AM (CEST)
Polysius and Elex establish a joint venture for advancing the catalytic flue gas cleaning technology
Polysius strengthens its systems business on the cement plant engineering sector by adding environmental technology
The increasing demands imposed on the cleaning of flue gas in the cement industry have to be met with new solutions. Polysius AG and Elex AG have therefore founded a joint venture, the Elex CemCat AG, for catalytic flue gas cleaning in nonmetallic mineral processing plants (SCR). The registered office of the new company is Schwerzenbach (near Zurich) in Switzerland.
Elex AG is a leading company on the flue gas cleaning sector and has been instrumental in developing catalytic flue gas cleaning technology for the cement industry.
The joint venture will extend the technological knowhow of the cement manufacturing process and the worldwide plant engineering activities of Polysius AG by adding attractive and future-oriented environmental technology.
CemCat will serve as the competence centre for catalytic flue gas cleaning within the Polysius Group.
Polysius, with subsidiary firms on all five continents and more than 2,000 employees all around the world, is one of the leading engineering companies equipping the cement and minerals industries. Polysius is a strong partner offering project elaboration, engineering and design, shipment, field assembly and commissioning, as well as comprehensive service activities, for complete production lines, individual products, plant conversions and upgrades.
Contact:
Norbert Veit
Polysius AG
Phone: +49 2525 99 2505
Fax: +49 2525 99 2655
E-mail: norbert.veit@thyssenkrupp.com
Published on Oct. 16, 2009 - 10:08 AM (CEST)
