DISTILLATION COLUMNS
Engineering and processing equipment solutions for industry
Our custom-designed industrial columns meet the highest requirements in terms of geometry, performance and dimensions for chemical processes.
Distillation columns occupy a central place in many industrial separation processes in the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotech and distillery industries.
To guarantee optimum operation and consistent reliability, the equipment must meet particularly high requirements in terms of geometry, tolerance, corrosion resistance and safety.
Drawing on over 60 years of expertise in designing process equipment, ZIEMEX designs and manufactures industrial distillation columns that are entirely custom-built, sized to suit your needs and layout requirements and the particularities of your processes.
We work both on standard equipment and on complex projects that require the complete integration of peripheral components: internals, trays, packing, safety components, condensers and reboilers, insulation, gangway, ladders, etc.
OUR COLUMNS ARE DESIGNED TO GUARANTEE:
- Perfect geometry (final inspection with 3D scan available),
- Very low geometrical tolerances
- Strict compliance with applicable requirements and standards
A COMPLETE RANGE OF INDUSTRIAL COLUMNS
for all applications
ZIEMEX offers several types of column, adapted to the constraints of chemicals and green chemicals, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and the ingredients industry:
XXL columns
Thanks to our XXL manufacturing capability, our XXL columns, which leave our factory in a single piece, facilitate installation operations at our customers’ sites.
Capacities up to 36m long, 5.5m diameter and 150 tonnes in a single piece, on-site assembly of several elements for larger units. Single-piece equipment can be transported by inland waterway if necessary, thanks to our closeness to the Rhine. ZIEMEX controls all the logistics and mechanical engineering stages of these types of projects.
Columns with internals
Custom design to guarantee the performance levels required in the customer’s specifications.
ZIEMEX offers the sizing of internals and assembly either at the factory and/or on site.
SOLUTIONS
designed for your manufacturing requirements
Each column is designed on the basis of a modular approach and is supplied with full technical assistance.
Our teams will help you select the configuration best suited to your process, and addresses all the requirements of your line of industry: ATEX, pressure, temperature, connected instrumentation, etc.
CUSTOMER CASE
ZIEMEX has been supporting major players in the European chemicals industry for several decades now by supplying columns of different types.
For a major global player in the chemicals industry, ZIEMEX delivered:
- a 60-tonne XXL column in 1.4539 (AISI 904L)
- 4m diameter
- 30m long
- in a single piece
- with transport by boat and road.
The closeness of ZIEMEX to an inland waterway loading point on the Rhine was a key advantage when it came to completing the operation safely
Do you have a project for a column?
ZIEMEX can support you from the very early stages of design up to commissioning of compliant, sustainable and efficient equipment.
