Chemical

Turning your specialty chemical process into production.

SSOE’s focus on specialty chemical manufacturers makes us experts at delivering faster, better projects with documented savings for our clients—more than $100 million to be exact. The difference comes not only from our specialized expertise, but from the way we deliver your project, including a more collaborative approach, a better use of technology, and a full menu of delivery methods—from single discipline design to Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). Our size and geographic diversity positions us to provide ongoing maintenance support for smaller projects in addition to execution of your larger capital projects. The result is a team that has been ranked by ENR as one of the top providers of design services for over a decade.

#8

Chemical Plant Design Firm

Ranked #8 Chemical Plant Design Firm in 2024 (ENR)

$118M

in Cost Savings

Since 2009, we’ve documented more than $118 million in cost savings to chemical clients

Experts

Published and Proven

Our experts have been published in Chemical Processing, Area Development, and Manufacturing.net

    “SSOE has been our primary engineering firm to design highly complex chemical processes in a series of major expansions. Our chemical processes are very challenging, requiring novel and conventional engineering solutions. SSOE has performed exemplary work and has demonstrated a high degree of skill in all of the core engineering disciplines for chemical plant design.”

    Plant Director, Specialty Chemical Client

    • Air Liquide
    • Austin Powder Company
    • BASF Corporation
    • Corteva Agrisciences
    • Cytec Engineered Materials
    • Dow Chemical
    • Dow Silicones Corporation
    • Fort Amanda Specialties
    • INEOS Group
    • Perstorp Polyols, Inc.
    • Nutrien Ltd.
    • PPG Industries
    • Saint-Gobain
    • Specialty Minerals
    • TOK America
    • Trinseo

    Performance Materials, Paints / Coatings / Adhesives, and Catalysts

    • Unit operations experience with reactions, separations, mixing, and extrusion
    • High temperature furnaces, calciners, and dryers
    • High purity chemical production, storage, and distribution
    • Solid, liquid, and gas bulk material handling for demanding conditions
    • 3D BIM
    • Batch processing
    • Blast resistant structures
    • Commissioning and start-up
    • Continuous processing
    • Environmental permitting and reporting
    • Front-end conceptual engineering and studies
    • Hazardous / flammable material storage and handling
    • Industrial wastewater treatment
    • Metals finishing / plating
    • Packaging
    • P&ID development
    • PLC and HMI programming
    • Process equipment specification
    • Process hazard reviews
    • Process instrumentation and controls
    • Process piping design and pipe stress analysis
    • Procurement and construction support
    • Project management and project controls (scheduling, cost estimating)
    • Systems integration and control system upgrades
    • Turnaround expertise
    • Utilities and infrastructure
    • Vessel, tank, and pump sizing

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