9 月底，EKATO 向一家欧洲活性药物成分 (API) 制造商交付了一个模块化高压加氢装置。 该系统完全由 EKATO 规划、制造和测试，包括四个功能模块，这些模块现场安装在 EKATO 设计的建筑物中。 从概念到系统交付的项目持续时间不到 12 个月。

客户为研究型制药行业开发和生产活性药物成分和相关中间体。 该行业的成功因素是新药物的快速上市、高效率和生产灵活性。

加氢装置的模块化，尤其是中小型生产工厂，为我们的客户和 EKATO 提供了巨大的未来潜力，”工程副总裁 Hans-Jürgen Weiß 解释说。“一方面，我们的客户获得了决定性的竞争优势 在他们的市场上：在批准新的活性成分后最快的开始生产（“上市时间”）。另一方面，通过模块化过程工厂概念， 我们在 EKATO 车间可以将单元装置的工程、生产和组装结合起来完成。 我们可以最佳地利用我们作为交钥匙加氢装置供应商的技能和资源。

EKATO 一直活跃在加氢领域超过 85 年，拥有 500 多个活跃的业绩， 为与加氢有关的一切提供广泛的产品和服务组合 – 从 EKATO 研发技术中心的测试，由此产生的规模 – 系统组件和交钥匙加氢装置。

At the end of September, EKATO delivered a modular high-pressure hydrogenation plant to a European manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). The system was completely planned, manufactured and tested by EKATO and comprises four functional modules that were installed on site in a building designed by EKATO. The project duration from the concept to the handover of the system was less than 12 months.

The customer develops and produces active pharmaceutical ingredients and related intermediates for the research-based pharmaceutical industry. Success factors in this industry are the rapid market launch of new substances, maximum efficiency and the greatest possible flexibility in production.

“The modularization of hydrogenation plants, especially for production plants on a small and medium scale, offers our customers and EKATO enormous future potential,” explains Hans-Jürgen Weiß, Vice President Engineering. “On the one hand, our customers gain the decisive competitive advantage in their market: The fastest possible start of production (“time-to-market”) after approval of a new active ingredient. On the other hand, we at EKATO can combine the engineering, production and assembly of the skids under one roof through modular process plant concepts. By bringing these activities together, we make optimal use of our skills and resources as a supplier of turnkey hydrogenation plants.”

EKATO has been active in the field of hydrogenation for over 85 years and, with more than 500 active references, offers an extensive product and service portfolio for everything to do with hydrogenation – from tests in the EKATO R&D technical center, the resulting scale-up to system components and turnkey hydrogenation plants.