The Royal Academy of Engineering has selected Davy Process Technology as a finalist in this year's competition for the MacRobert Award for innovative engineering, the most prestigious in the UK
The Royal Academy of Engineering has selected Davy Process Technology as a finalist in this year's competition for the MacRobert Award for innovative engineering; the most prestigious engineering award in the UK. Davy Process Technology was chosen for the development of its ethyl acetate technology; a process that uses bio-ethanol as the sole feedstock. This demonstrates to the global chemical industries how to convert a regenerable feedstock into an industrial solvent without adding carbon dioxide to the environment.

Ethyl acetate technology has been licensed in three plants: a 50,000 MTPA facility in South Africa and two plants, 100,000 MTPA and 50,000 MTPA in China.

This technology has also won the Kirkpatrick Honour Award for process innovation in 2003 and the Crystal Faraday Award for Green Technology in 2005.

Davy Process Technology has a global business in chemicals technology development and technology licensing.

The company has its headquarters in London and a Technology Centre in Stockton-on-Tees, UK.

It owns a range of proprietary process technologies including Methanol, Gas Conversion, Butanediol, Natural and Synthetic Detergent Alcohols, Oxo Alcohols, Industrial Amines, Ethyl Acetate and Phosphatic Fertilisers.