Chemicals, Petrochemicals & Polymers

Foster Wheeler has over 60 years of experience in the chemicals, petrochemicals and polymers industry. We've completed thousands of projects, from consultancy and small process unit revamps to large integrated grass roots complexes.

Whether it's a grassroots project, an expansion, or an upgrade, our experience and capabilities encompass plants that produce raw materials, intermediate products, and finished products. Naming just a few, these include olefins, aromatics, fertilizers, fibre intermediates such as PTA, polycarbonate and other polymers, and a wide range of speciality and fine chemicals.

Foster Wheeler offers a complete range of expertise to our clients on a global basis. This includes all unit operations and engineering disciplines, specialist equipment, construction, operation, and health safety & environment. We also have extensive experience in using our clients' technologies. We can begin with project feasibility studies or basic design packages and see the most complex projects through every aspect of engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up.

Increasingly, petrochemical and polymer operations are being integrated with refineries to deliver significant synergies. We are world leaders in refinery/petrochemical integration, and have a leading position in hydrogen technology. We also design, supply and erect fired heaters and reformers.

In 2005, Foster Wheeler formed a strategic alliance with Methanol Casale that builds on the strengths of our two companies. Casale is a leading supplier of methanol technology and has extensive plant experience, and Foster Wheeler has a long and successful track record in the engineering, procurement and construction of process plants and catalytic reforming furnaces. For more information, download our brochure on Methanol Solutions.

For more information contact: chemicals@fwc.com or download our brochure.