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Perfecting chemistry for a better world

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Haldor Topsoe sets out to become the global leader in technologies to reduce carbon emissions
• A new purpose and vision launch Topsoe’s ambition to lead the drive to reduce carbon emissions from fuels and chemicals. • Topsoe’s new company purpose is Perfecting...
September 9, 2020
2 minute read
Tier 3 gasoline - Impact on United States refineries
Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standard is now reality in the United States, making it more difficult for refiners to meet the specifications from their FCC gasoline post-treatment...
September 2, 2020
4 minute read
Haldor Topsoe and Comprimo® (part of Worley) announce global strategic alliance on TopClaus® technology to offer refiners cost-effective compliance in sulfur management
Haldor Topsoe and Comprimo® have announced a global strategic alliance to jointly license the TopClaus® sulfur removal and recovery solution. TopClaus® helps customers...
August 20, 2020
2 minute read
Topsoe and partners issue a report: “Ammonfuel - an industrial view of ammonia as marine fuel”
Alfa Laval, Hafnia, Haldor Topsoe, Vestas, and Siemens Gamesa issued a report “Ammonfuel – an industrial view of ammonia as a marine fuel” providing a comprehensive and...
August 4, 2020
2 minute read
Global Clean Energy Holdings selects Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex™ for revamp of refinery for renewable fuel production
Global Clean Energy’s retooled facility will produce 15,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel from proprietary camelina oil and other traditional biofuel feedstocks. ...
June 9, 2020
2 minute read
Roeland Baan joins Haldor Topsoe as new CEO
Today is the first workday for the company’s new top manager.
June 2, 2020
1 minute read
Air Products and Topsoe sign global alliance agreement for collaboration on large-scale ammonia, methanol, and/or dimethyl ether projects around the world
LEHIGH VALLEY, PA (May 15, 2020) – Air Products (NYSE:APD), a global leader in industrial gases and megaproject development, and Haldor Topsoe, the world leader in...
May 15, 2020
5 minute read
Thaioil chooses SNOX™ air quality control for Sriracha refinery
Thai Oil Public Company Limited (Thaioil) has signed an agreement for Topsoe’s SNOX™ solution to efficiently remove sulfur and nitrogen oxides and dust emissions from their...
April 15, 2020
3 minute read
COVID-19 update: Haldor Topsoe upholds normal operations
Individuals, companies, and countries are faced with unprecedented challenges as the corona virus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the globe. Everybody must collaborate...
March 26, 2020
1 minute read
Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS™ technology for USD 3 billion natural gas-to-gasoline plant
Nacero has signed agreements with Haldor Topsoe for basic engineering and license for a planned natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Casa Grande, Arizona, with a capacity of...
March 26, 2020
4 minute read
Preem selects HydroFlex™ for renewable fuels plant with potential to save 2.5 million tons CO2
Preem has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex™ renewable fuel technology to produce clean renewable diesel and jet fuel at their Gothenburg refinery in Sweden. The 16,000...
March 12, 2020
2 minute read
HollyFrontier opts for Topsoe’s HydroFlex™ solution to reduce cost of compliance with renewable fuels blending requirements
HollyFrontier has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex™ sustainable renewable fuel technology to produce extremely clean renewable diesel from various feedstocks The large...
January 29, 2020
1 minute read
Topsoe and UNLEASH – creating solutions for a more sustainable world
Get the video report from an international think-tank of 1000 global top talents. Three Haldor Topsoe employees joined them to develop solutions to the world’s most pressing...
December 20, 2019
3 minute read
Haldor Topsoe and Sasol unite to offer customers single-point licenses for proven gas-to-liquids solutions
Sasol and Haldor Topsoe, two of the global leaders in gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology, have entered into a collaboration agreement to offer G2L™- single-point licensing of...
December 2, 2019
3 minute read
Haldor Topsoe wins the 2019 IChemE Oil and Gas Global Award for its TIGAS™ gas-to-gasoline technology
Members of the Topsoe TIGAS™ technology team received the prestigious 2019 IChemE Global Award in the category ‘Oil & Gas’ at a black-tie event in Hull, UK, on Thursday...
November 11, 2019
3 minute read
Haldor Topsoe, JITRI and Suzhou High-Speed Railway New Town open joint R&D company to accelerate development of innovative technologies for Chinese market
At an official ceremony yesterday, Haldor Topsoe, JITRI, and Suzhou Xiangcheng district opened the Jiangsu JITRI-Topsoe Joint R&D Center that will make advanced new...
October 30, 2019
3 minute read
How to reduce ammonia production cost with improved ammonia synthesis catalyst?
Using KM 111 in conjunction with our industry-leading catalyst KM1 increases the profitability of ammonia production through record high production levels as well as savings...
October 9, 2019
3 minute read
Price increase for substitute natural gas catalysts
Haldor Topsoe announces a 15% price increase of substitute natural gas catalysts, including GCC, MCR and PK catalysts, due to increases in raw material prices. The price...
September 9, 2019
Perdaman chooses SynCOR™ solution for world’s largest ammonia plant
With a planned capacity of 3,500 metric tons per day, the Perdaman plant will be the world’s largest single-line ammonia plant. It will also be the first to apply Haldor...
August 21, 2019
3 minute read
How to stay on top of hydroprocessing and why training is the way to go
Knowledge and knowledge sharing have been a part of Topsoe’s core identity since day one. We’ve been researching hydrotreating down to the atomic level since the early...
August 1, 2019
3 minute read
Topsoe to build demonstration plant to produce cost-competitive CO2-neutral methanol from biogas and green electricity
Haldor Topsoe will build a 10 kg/hour methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact eSMR Methanol™ technology for cost-competitive production...
July 16, 2019
3 minute read
DeLille Oxygen Co. leases two eCOs™ units for cost-competitive onsite CO production
DeLille Oxygen Co. moves beyond tube trailer or cylinder supply of carbon monoxide (CO). The specialty gas company has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s eCOs™ solution for...
May 29, 2019
2 minute read
SkyNRG chooses Topsoe’s HydroFlex™ technology for Europe’s first sustainable aviation fuel plant
SkyNRG, the Amsterdam-based global market leader for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s world-leading technology for production of renewable diesel...
May 27, 2019
2 minute read
Article in Science: Extremely compact reactor has potential to reduce global CO2 emissions significantly
An article in the esteemed Science magazine suggests that as much as one percent of global CO2 emissions can be saved if electrified, and significantly more compact,...
May 24, 2019
3 minute read
New sulfur control solution cuts cost and supports environmental compliance in viscose manufacturing
Preferential Oxidation Catalysis – a new catalytic solution from Topsoe – has been industrially proven to effectively remove undesired hydrogen sulfide in lean off-gases...
May 7, 2019
3 minute read
Topsoe releases its 2018 Sustainability Report
The Sustainability Report 2018 provides an overview of Haldor Topsoe’s main sustainability initiatives, activities and achievements over the 2018 financial year. The report...
May 6, 2019
2 minute read
Topsoe scientist receives prestigious award
Stig Helveg has been honored with the 2019 Innovation in Materials Characterization Award for his profound accomplishments in electron microscopy advances in catalysis. ...
May 1, 2019
2 minute read
Ammonia can become the CO2-free fuel of the future
Today, ammonia is mostly known as an indispensable fertilizer ingredient. A new research project will now explore ammonia’s potential, both as a sustainable fuel and a good...
February 21, 2019
5 minute read
Braskem and Haldor Topsoe start up demo unit for developing renewable MEG
The mechanical completion of the innovative first process step of the demonstration plant is the first milestone to be achieved by Braskem and Haldor Topsoe’s partnership to...
February 6, 2019
5 minute read
New trends and opportunities in hydrogen production
Hydrogen can be central for long-term storage of renewable electricity production and both fossil and renewable production routes for hydrogen will most probably grow in...
January 22, 2019
4 minute read
Haldor Topsoe opens office in Indonesia
Topsoe opens an office in Jakarta, Indonesia, to be closer to the customers and provide them with even faster services tailored to their needs. Indonesia’s demand for...
November 28, 2018
3 minute read
Topsoe announces price increase for sulfuric acid catalysts
Due to the continued increase in raw material prices, especially for vanadium, Haldor Topsoe announces an increase in the price of the company’s sulfuric acid catalysts of...
September 21, 2018
1 minute read
Haldor Topsoe invests in Indian fertilizer plant
Topsoe has signed a shareholder agreement for a 11.7% stake in the Ramagundam fertilizer plant in Telangana, India, together with the Danish government-owned fund IFU and...
September 13, 2018
3 minute read
Comply with emission standards without compromising on performance
A new, highly active catalyst offers sulfuric acid plant operators a significantly more effective way to achieve compliance with emissions standards without compromising on...
September 5, 2018
2 minute read
Anglo American Platinum chooses WSA for cost-efficient environmental compliance
Anglo American Platinum has signed a contract for Topsoe’s world-leading Wet gas Sulfuric Acid (WSA) sulfur emissions control technology for their platinum smelter facility...
August 27, 2018
2 minute read
Haldor Topsoe acquires full ownership of Ferrostaal Topsoe Projects GmbH
The transaction adds strong project development competencies to Topsoe’s market-leading portfolio of high-performance catalyst and proprietary technologies for the chemical...
August 15, 2018
2 minute read
New orders cement Topsoe’s leading position in ammonia in India
TechnipFMC has awarded Topsoe a contract for license and engineering of two 2,200 tons-per-day ammonia plants. The plants will be based on Topsoe’s world-leading ammonia...
August 3, 2018
3 minute read
Sinopec chooses Topsoe CATOX catalyst for Asia’s largest styrene-butadiene rubber emissions control project
Sinopec Qilu Petrochemical Corporation has chosen Topsoe’s CATOX catalyst for cost-efficient control of volatile organic compounds (VOC) at their rubber plant in Zibo, China.
July 12, 2018
2 minute read
Further price increase for sulfuric acid catalysts
Effective today, Haldor Topsoe announces a further price increase on the company’s sulfuric acid catalysts. The increase is due to the rising price of raw materials.
May 9, 2018
How to efficiently produce chemicals from biomass using catalysis?
On the occasion of the first official World Creativity and Innovation Day, we asked Esben Taarning, R&D Director at Topsoe, about his innovative work within biochemicals and...
April 21, 2018
6 minute read
Price increase for hydroprocessing catalysts
Haldor Topsoe will introduce a general price increase on the TK series hydroprocessing catalysts, effective April 23, 2018. Prices will increase on most products in the TK...
April 20, 2018
SNOX™ sustainable emissions control technology enters the carbon black industry
Orion Engineered Carbons LLC has signed a contract for Topsoe’s sustainable flue gas cleaning technology, SNOX™. The contract has a value of a three digit million DKK amount.
April 12, 2018
2 minute read
Price increase for sulfuric acid catalysts
Haldor Topsoe increases prices for sulfuric acid catalysts with 0.40 euro per liter. The increase is driven by a substantial increase in the price of vanadium, which is a...
April 3, 2018
Let’s talk about water and Topsoe
On the occasion of ‘World Water Day’, March 22, we will share the story of how we reuse 88 percent of the process water in one of our production units.
March 22, 2018
3 minute read
Annual General Meeting 2018 in Haldor Topsoe A/S
Haldor Topsoe A/S held the Annual General Meeting of the company on March 20, 2018, at the company’s address at Haldor Topsøes Allé 1, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
March 20, 2018
1 minute read
Topsoe Annual Report 2017: Focus on consolidating the business
Continuing operations generated revenue of DKK 5,011 million, EBIT of DKK 595 million (equaling an EBIT margin of 12%), and net profit of DKK 403 million. The overall...
March 20, 2018
29 minute read
Annual general meeting of Haldor Topsoe A/S
Haldor Topsoe A/S’ shareholders are hereby invited for the annual general meeting to be held on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at 15:50 at Haldor Topsøe A/S, Haldor Topsøes Allé...
March 5, 2018
1 minute read
Topsoe scientist honored with prestigious award
Topsoe’s Stig Helveg has received the award “EliteForsk” – a recognition of his outstanding work within electron microscopy that follows catalytic processes at the atomic...
March 1, 2018
3 minute read
Successful start-up of world’s largest wet gas sulfuric acid (WSA) plant
The WSA plant treats 131,000 tons of acid gas per year from a neighboring world-scale refinery in Huizhou, China. The patented WSA process converts more than 99.9% of the...
February 19, 2018
2 minute read
Haldor Topsoe and JITRI found joint R&D company to accelerate development of innovative technologies for Chinese market
Joint company will focus on applied research and fast commercialization of new technologies. First development project aims to develop more cost-effective NCA batteries for...
February 15, 2018
3 minute read
Topsoe chosen as technology licensor of the world’s largest methanol facility
IGP Methanol LLC has awarded Haldor Topsoe a contract for engineering of a methanol plant that will produce 1.8 million tons per year, which is part of a planned complex...
January 30, 2018
2 minute read
Curiosity-driven research for the future
What Denmark is spending on publicly funded research at the moment is definitely too little, says Haldor Topsoe’s CEO, Bjerne S. Clausen. Haldor Topsoe devotes 10% of its...
January 25, 2018
3 minute read
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