ACE Apparatebau construction & engineering GmbH

The company ACE Apparatebau construction & engineering GmbH, having its headquarter in Lieboch (Styria/Austria) and being incorporated into the versatile Christof Group, is operating on a global scale. For decades, the team of ACE has been developing special solutions for industrial equipment which are recognized worldwide. In large, state-of-the-art equipped halls, alloyed and unalloyed steels as well as cladded steels and special materials such as titanium, Hastelloy etc. are processed by ACE’s team consisting of experienced specialists.

International clients in the petrochemical and chemical industry as well as in the plastics, paper and food industry appreciate ACE as a reliable partner regarding apparatus construction and plant shut-downs.

Producst and services:

  • Pressure vessels
  • Heat exchangers
  • Columns
  • Reactors
  • FCC-components
  • Special products
  • Repair and maintenances works
  • Mechanical processing
  • Chemical & Process Design acc. to HTRI (Design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers, optimization of existing apparatuses, vibration analysis etc.)

Products and Services

Christof Group - Trust in Solutions

 

The comprehensive spectrum of services enables ACE to serve customers in the most varied areas and business fields. Apparatus and complete plants are produced in accordance with the requirements and wishes of the customers ACE's production halls by competent personnel. The services of the company also include repair and maintenance work that is processed with the highest flexibility and adherence to deadlines.

Pressure vessels

Columns

Heat exchangers

Reactors

FCC-components

Special products

Mechanical processing

Repair und maintenance

Chemical & Process Design

Engineering

Copper forge

Pickling line

Pressure vessels

ACE produces vessels, in every type, that can be complemented by additional equipment such as heating, cooling and mixing devices

  • Pressurevessels

Our spectrum of services includes pressure vessels up to a maximum vessel pressure of 750 bar.

  • Market requirements

Every customer, national as well as international, has individual requirements and needs in product procurement. For us, these demands are a top priority. We produce pressure vessels in various formats for the most varied fields of use in co-ordination with our customers. Our customers have trusted in this for decades.

  • Our solutions for our customers

ACE produces vessels, in every type, that can be complemented by additional equipment such as heating, cooling and mixing devices. The vessels up to a diameter of 5.4 m are produced in monowall construction in-house; for larger dimensions, split deliveries as well as the final assembly take place in Linz heavy load port. ACE also has a high level of experience with vessels in the field of sour gas.

Columns

In column construction ACE is a specialist for the most varied kinds of designs

  • Columns

In column construction ACE is a specialist for the most varied kinds of designs. The know-how of the optimally trained employees guarantees the perfect installation of internals of every kind. On request, ACE can also assemble the columns on site. In the last few years it was especially roll-clad and weld-clad columns that were constructed, produced and delivered for refineries and the chemical industry.

Through the high level of competence and the subject-specific knowledge of our specialists, ACE is able to deliver the columns "fully dressed" to our customers in the international market. In this way, valuable assembly or shutdown time and subsequently costs can be massively reduced, to guarantee economic efficiency for our customers in the best possible way.

Our solutions for our customers

We construct and produce columns in various formats and columns adapted to the requirements of our customers especially for the chemical and petrochemical industry.

Market requirements

Heat exchangers

ACE can produce heat exchangers for every field of application

  • Heat exchangers

ACE can produce heat exchangers for every field of application. Depending on requirements and technical feasibility, the most varied tube-bundle heat exchangers as well as tube-in-tube heat exchangers are manufactured. On the basis of years of experience, the tube-to-tubesheet connections are either welded in, rolled in or also hydraulically pressed. The petrochemical industry, especially, values ACE in this sector as a competent and reliable partner for individual solutions.

Through ACE's professional and competent engineering department as well as professional supply chain management, highly complex heat exchangers were realised within short delivery times.

Our solutions for our customers

We construct, produce and deliver heat exchangers in the most varied formats for customers' individual use in the most different industrial fields on the international market.

Market requirements

Reactors

The most varied kinds of reactors are manufactured by ACE for the chemical and petrochemical industry as well as the plastics and polymer industry

  • Reactors

Chemical reactors with static and/or dynamic installations are produced by ACE for all temperature and pressure levels in monowall construction. In the manufacture of reactors for the chemical industry, high-alloy materials such as, for example, titanium, Hastelloy and 254SMO are processed for especially corrosive mediums. The plastics and polymer industry values ACE's expertise in the use of clad plates in reactor production. In the field of petrochemicals it was especially weld-clad reactors in various grades that were used.

The high proportion of welding specialists at ACE with the corresponding welding equipment that corresponds to the latest state-of-the-art and ongoing employee training programmes enable the competent processing of a broad range of materials within the agreed deadlines.

Our solutions for our customers

Our product portfolio comprises the construction, production, delivery and assembly of reactors in various formats for the chemical and petrochemical industry and plastics generation.

Market requirements

FCC-components

Seit mehreren Jahren ist ACE ein kompetenter Lieferant für FCC-Komponenten

  • FCC-Komponenten

Raffinerien benötigen speziell angefertigte Komponenten, um den Betrieb dauerhaft und wirtschaftlich aufrechterhalten zu können. Daher bietet ACE maßgeschneiderte Komponenten mit oder ohne Ausmauerung für den FCC (Fluid Catalytic Cracking)-Bereich.

  • Marktanforderungen

Der Kunde braucht in diesem speziellen Geschäftsfeld einen verlässlichen und vor allem erfahrenen Partner, der über ein fundiertes Netzwerk an Sublieferanten verfügt (zB für die Ausmauerung der FCC-Teile) und gemäß UOP-Spezifikation umfassendes Spezial Know-how vorweisen und die Bedürfnisse sowie Anforderungen der Kunden erfüllt. ACE ist hierfür Ihr optimaler Partner um individuelle FCC Komponenten für Ihren Erfolg herzustellen.

  • Unsere Lösungen für unsere Kunden

ACE kann im Bereich der FCC-Anlagen eine mehrjährige Branchenerfahrung vorweisen. Für verschiedene Kunden wie z.B. OMV, PCK und MAN DWE wurden bereits einige FCC-Komponenten gefertigt und auch Baustellenmontagen durchgeführt. Die Ausmauerungen der Teile werden von erfahrenen Fachfirmen in den Werkstätten der ACE durchgeführt. Die Trocknung der Ausmauerung erfolgt mit den zahlreichen bei ACE vorhandenen Wärmebehandlungsöfen.

Special products

ACE is qualified as a specialist, with global recognition, for constructing the most varied apparatus

  • Special products

Through its productivity, ACE is qualified as a globally recognised specialist for the construction of the most varied apparatus such as universal agitators, screw conveyors, various forms of flaps and similar.

Whether special components are required on a small or large scale, at ACE there is definitely a competent specialist for it.

Our solutions for our customers

Alongside the main products presented, various special products are also designed and made, upon customer requests, in the in-house production areas.

Market requirements

Mechanical processing

Through an in-house hall for mechanical processing, optimal and economically efficient material flow is guaranteed.

  • Mechanical processing

So that we can act even more flexibly, in 2005 a new hall for mechanical processing was constructed on the ACE's premises. The hall is equipped with cranes with a capacity of up to 35t and enables quick and problem-free equipping of the machines. In this way, an optimal and economical flow of materials is guaranteed. ACE has the most modern CNC mobile lathes, CNC work centres and drilling and milling machines as well as one of the most modern CNC deep hole drilling machines for the processing of tube sheets up to 1,200 mm depth. The consistent use of CNC technologies enables very high dimensional accuracy to be attained for all produced parts. Through the networking of the individual machines on the basis of CAM, ACE is able to produce efficiently and economically.

ACE has used the continuous developments in the market as well as the high requirements of our customers in the international market in order to expand their portfolio of services. Every customer has individual demands, requires special parts on a small or large scale; ACE is the partner for your special solution.

Our solutions for our customers

Having our own workshop enables us to carry out mechanical processing for orders for the international market or as wage work.

Market requirements

Repair und maintenance

Within the scope of the Christof Group all repairs and upkeep work as well as "shutdowns" can be processed without interfaces to the outside world

  • Repair and maintenance work

Thanks to the perfectly equipped production halls in the Austrian locations (Styria, Vienna, Linz) as well as in Croatia and Romania, all repair and upkeep work can be carried out within Christof Group. Without interfaces to the outside world the Company Group with decades of industry experience offers the highest levels of flexibility, quality and work safety in the event of standstills and revisions. The most frequent repairs are retubing of heat exchangers, partial renewals of columns, renovation of tank roofs, repairs of apparatus and components of every kind.

In the course of plant shut-downs the customer needs short-term repairs or new production and, for this, a reliable partner who carries out this work within deadlines. Due to competent project management and the expertise of our specialists, ACE is your optimal partner for efficient repair and maintenance work.

Our solutions for our customers

ACE offers efficient and cost-effective repair and maintenance work, which is completed within deadlines, in the event of shut-downs and revisions of your business.

Market requirements

Chemical & Process Design

As a HTRI® member, we can further expand on our extensive expertise in the building of heat exchangers

  • Chemical & Process Design

Design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers, whereby all design variations in accordance with TEMA can be taken into consideration.

Optimization of existing apparatuses such as material changes due to corrosion.

Vibration analysis for straight tube and U-tube heat carriers, as well as specific tests on endangered pipes in the window area and at the medium entry and exit points.

Design and optimization of air coolers. Calculation of the individual components, such as bundles, steel construction and fans, as well as simulation of the airflow and shutter control.

Design and optimization of gas coolers (economizer) within the field of the waste heat utilization.

As a HTRI® member, we can further expand on our extensive expertise in the building of heat exchangers and air coolers to include process layout design and thermo-technical calculations.

Thus we are able to develop more energy-efficient solutions for the building of heat exchangers for the chemical industry, the refinery sector and the fertilizer industry.

Services

Design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers, whereby all design variations in accordance with TEMA can be taken into consideration.

Optimization of existing apparatuses such as material changes due to corrosion.

Vibration analysis for straight tube and U-tube heat carriers, as well as specific tests on endangered pipes in the window area and at the medium entry and exit points.

Design and optimization of air coolers. Calculation of the individual components, such as bundles, steel construction and fans, as well as simulation of the airflow and shutter control.

Design and optimization of gas coolers (economizer) within the field of the waste heat utilization.

Engineering

As well as the latest CAD programmes and calculation programmes for various Standards, ACE's engineering department also has Finite Element programs, in order to meet the constantly increasing demands

  • Professional engineering for our customers

The engineering department is equipped with the most modern devices and state-of-the-art equipment. As well as the latest CAD programmes and calculation programmes for various standards, ACE also has Finite Element programs, in order to meet the constantly increasing demands.

Customers require flexibility, short delivery deadlines as well as professional support in the realisation of projects in order to guarantee their own economic effectiveness. Through our specialist expertise, interface avoidance and optimal project management ACE guarantees all requirements on the international market.

Our solutions for our customers

Despite the decades of experience and the competence of all employees, the ACE engineering department is constantly developed, so that customers can be served and advised as well as possible and the special requirements in the international market can also be fulfilled.

Market requirements

Copper forge

ACE's Copper forge is a special workshop where, for example, distillation units are forged.

  • Copper forge

The in-house specialist workshop for copper work and small parts guarantees international quality standards. This workshop also forms the basis for our high-quality apprentice training.

  • Market requirements

ACE has maintained the tradition of the in-house coppersmiths until this day and is thereby about to produce small parts, which have been individually adapted to customer requirements, in an uncomplicated way

  • Oursolutions for our customers

The company has its roots in a coppersmith's. ACE would like to continue to uphold this tradition and operates a special workshop in which, alongside copper, aluminium, iron and stainless steel are also processed. The product portfolio comprises the repair and new production of distillation units as well as other copper work such as copper boilers etc.

Pickling line

In the pickling line, which has the most modern equipment, ACE carries spray pickling works on its own projects as well as in contract work

  • Pickling line

Due to its high chromium content, stainless steel has the property of building up a corrosion-protective passive layer. This layer is destroyed by mechanical and thermal processes (rolling, turning, grinding, cutting, welding etc.). Through pickling, impurities can be removed. Professionally pickled stainless steel surfaces and welding seams thereby guarantee full corrosion resistance of the basic material and result in a decorative, metallic appearance. In the pickling plant with highly modern equipment, ACE carries out pickling work in the spray pickling process. The pickling plant has the measurements 16.0 x 8.0 x 7,.0 m equipped with crane and platform.

A significant requirement of our customers is the corrosion-resistance of the apparatus. Trust in ACE's competence and experience and benefit from the comprehensive know-how of the Company Group for your economic effectiveness.

Our solutions for our customers

In the in-house pickling spray plant, pickling work can be carried out on the in-house products and contract work can also be carried out.

Market requirements

Jobs

Wir sind ein renommiertes, international tätiges Apparatebauunternehmen und suchen zur Verstärkung unseres Teams Mitarbeiter/-innen für folgende Bereiche:

 

Vielen Dank für Ihr Interesse an unserem Unternehmen. Leider sind im Moment keine offenen Stellen verfügbar!