Continental Technologies: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
Continental Technologies
Based in: Colorado
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Continental Technologies specializes in pilot plant fabrication, focusing on fuels (including synthetic and biofuels), catalysts, chemicals and polymers process technology development and scale-up. The company has experience with equipment for virtually every fuels relevant process – gasification, pyrolysis, hydrotreating, fermentation, Fischer Tropsch synthesis, transesterification – as well as catalyst development, hydrogen production and chemicals development. Continental Technologies was founded in late 2007 in Ponca City, Oklahoma to service the pilot plant needs of the energy and chemical industries with a unique value proposition – the entire staff has come from large company R&D departments so that the design and fabrication focus is from the end-user’s perspective. In addition, pilot plants are not a filler; they are what the company does. Continental Technologies is the only pilot plant fabricator who offers an option to operate the pilot plants at its facilities.
Model: Engineering Design/Fabrication/Operation Services provider
Past milestones:
· Continental Technologies recently completed their first major job, with the leading company in the U.S. for biomass and coal conversion to liquid fuels. Continental Technologies designed and fabricated six reactor systems and provided startup services and training.
· Continental Technologies moved into their new 34,000 square foot fabrication facility, located in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The facility is near major highways and rail routes and features high bay workspace, five-ton and ten-ton overhead cranes and areas designed for unit testing and operation.
· Continental Technologies completed three more jobs after moving into the new fabrication facility. The company is well-positioned to assist clients in the rapidly-expanding biofuels area to scale up their technologies.
Future milestones:
· To participate meaningfully in the alternative energy business by helping companies scale-up their technologies.
· To triple Continental Technologies’ workload.
· To operate a plant in-place that we built for a client.
Metrics: Customers can save an estimated 20% by choosing to have Continental Technologies’ staff operate their pilot plant where it is fabricated in Continental Technologies’ fabrication facility.
Continental quotable quotes: “Continental Technologies’ core staff previously worked in the R&D departments of big oil companies, designing, building and operating pilot-scale process equipment for 20+ years. The combination of this technical expertise with hands-on operation experience enables Continental Technologies to approach each project from the user’s perspective – building each unit as though they will be running it themselves. The result is a unit built by operators, for operators that is easy to operate and maintain while providing the data and product essential to optimizing processes. Safety is a foremost design principle and Continental Technologies’ experience and training allows them to contribute to formal safety review and compliance with industry standards and regulations.”
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