For the manufacture of fuels, lubricants, greases, cosmetic oils etc., optimum function of the catalysts is essential.

BUCHEN-ICS has developed in the last 20 years to become the largest European service provider in the field of reactor service. We carry out all the tasks expected of a modern service provider to major industries:

• Shutdown management
• Plant preparation
• N₂ inertisation
• Hot stripping
• Rapid cooling with liquid nitrogen
• Catalyst handling in an N₂ atmosphere
• Removal / extraction / packaging of spent catalyst mass
• Screening of catalyst mass
• Loading of reactors / licensed loading processes
• Solid bed reactors / primary reformers / cracking heaters
• Tube reactors
• External treatment / processing of catalyst material
• Inspection in an N₂ atmosphere
• Maintenance of reactor internals