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Process technology

Sulzer Chemtech, a member of the Sulzer Corporation, with headquarters in Winterthur, Switzerland, is active in the field of process engineering, employing 3'000 persons worldwide. Sulzer Chemtech is represented in all important industrial countries setting standards in the fields of mass transfer and static mixing with its advanced and economical solutions.

Sulzer Chemtech is organized into four business units, one of which is the Process Technology group. This business unit was formed in early 2009 following the acquisition of Kühni, a Swiss company with more than 75 years experience in innovative separation processes. Today, Sulzer Chemtech Process Technology is headquartered in Allschwil (Basel), Switzerland.

By combining Sulzer's and former Kühni's proven process technologies and expertise, Sulzer Chemtech Process Technology is now uniquely positioned to offer process solutions for demanding, industrial separations based on an excellent portfolio of the following unit operations:
• Distillation, absorption and reactive distillation
• Film evaporation
• Liquid-liquid extraction
• Crystallization
• Membrane separation

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