| Year |
Achivement |
| 1954 |
Continuous Sulfonation based on oleum |
| 1960 |
Continuous Air/SO3 Sulfonation based on sulfur burning |
| 1964 |
Commercial AOS Sulfonation |
| 1968 |
Commercial Heavy Alkylate Air/SO3 Sulfonation |
| 1975 |
Commercial Hydrotrope Sulfonation |
| 1976 |
Developed Lowest Dioxane AES Sulfation |
| 1989 |
Ultra High Viscosity Air/SO3 Sulfonation (US Patent 5,136,088) |
| 1989 / 1996 |
Highest Active Neutralization with Lowest Energy Consumption |
| 1965 |
Developed Single Step Neutralization for low residence time and best control |
| 1985 |
Developed Mass Flow Control for sulfonation plants |
| 1985 |
Developed Atomizing Spray Type Sulfur Burner technology |
| 1987 |
Developed welded Hot Gas Piping without flanges or expansion joints |
| 1988 |
Developed “Fail to Safe” Plant Interlock system |
| 1988 |
Developed fully automatic Computer Control for Sulfonation plants |
| 1990 / 1997 |
Developed commercial SASME technology |
| 1993 / 1997 |
Developed commercial high active dry needle technology with the patented Turbo Tube® Dryer for MES, LABS and AS/SLS |
| 1995 / 1997 |
Developed Dioxane Removal System (DRS) technology to remove 1,4-dioxane from AES products |
| 1998 |
Developed advanced AOS drying systems |
| 1999 |
Advanced the design for the Dioxane Removal System (DRS) |
| 2000 |
Developed advanced SafeDeNox® ammonia-from-urea-on-demand |
| 2002 |
Commercial Production Success of MES at Houston, Texas, USA. |
| 2003 |
First large-scale commercial operation of Chemithon SafeDeNox® system |
| 2005 |
Optimized MES process for lowest disalt and best disalt/active ratio in the industry |
