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Petro-Chem announces Completion of
Merger Between Petro-Chem & Heurtey:
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heurtey
Petrochem S. A. (Heurtey Petrochem) announced today that it has
completed the acquisition of New York based Petro-Chem
Development Co., Inc. (Petro-Chem Development). The transaction
was completed following a successful special meeting of the
shareholders of Heurtey Petrochem. This combination of over 100
corporate years of engineering expertise has created the world’s
largest provider of direct fired heaters to the refinery and
petrochemical industries. Heurtey Petrochem is a publicly traded
company that is listed on the Alternext d' Euronext Paris
Exchange, an affiliate of the NYSE under the stock symbol ALHPC.
Heurtey Petrochem is now
the industry’s undisputed market and technology leader for
process furnaces designed for the petrochemical and refinery
markets in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North
America, South America and Asia. Heurtey Petrochem maintains 12
offices worldwide (3 in the United States, 4 in Europe, 1 in
Africa, 2 in India, 1 in Singapore and 1 in Korea) and
approximately 500 employees. Michel Pingeot, the Chairman and
CEO of Heurtey Petrochem is now also the Chairman of Petro-Chem
Development. Stephen T. Limpe will continue to lead Petro-Chem
Development as its President and Chief Executive Officer and
Anthony T. Limpe remains on the Board of Petro-Chem Development
as its Vice Chairman.
Michel Pingeot, Chairman
and CEO of Heurtey Petrochem and Chairman of Petro-Chem
commented, “I am very pleased to welcome the executives and
staff of Petro-Chem Development to the Heurtey family as our
partners. With the successful closing of this transaction, the
breadth of technical solutions which we offer to our clients is
unparalleled. We look forward to the integration of our
businesses and a successful future for our company.”
Stephen T. Limpe,
President and CEO of Petro-Chem Development stated, “All of the
shareholders and employees are very pleased with the completion
of this transaction. Our clients will now benefit from the
capabilities and resources of our combined company. I look
forward to working together with Michel Pingeot, Heurtey
Petrochem’s Chairman and CEO, and I am certain that his
leadership and strategic vision will enable us to dramatically
expand our industry leading markets and opportunities.”
About Petro Chem:
Petro-Chem Development
Co., Inc. is one of the world’s leading providers of process
furnaces and direct fired heaters to oil refineries and
petrochemical plants throughout the world. Founded in 1939,
Petro-Chem and its affiliates and licensees have designed and
produced over 10,000 process furnaces for over 500 clients
around the world. Petro-Chem is headquartered in New York, NY
USA with offices in Tulsa, OK; Houston, TX; Seoul, Korea, Pune,
India and joint venture companies in the Middle East with
Heurtey Petrochem SA and in China with an affiliate of Sinopec.
Visit
www.petro-chemusa.com.
About Heurtey:
Founded in 1953, Heurtey
Petrochem designs, studies, manufactures, and installs complex
sets of process furnaces for the transformation of hydrocarbons
into derived products with an expertise which goes from the
feasibility studies through the execution of turn-key projects.
Since its creation, Heurtey Petrochem has designed or produced
more than 2,500 cracking, refining and reforming furnaces
establishing it as a global leader in its industry.
Headquartered in Paris, Heurtey Petrochem maintains subsidiary
company offices in London, Bucharest, Hamburg, Johannesburg,
Mumbai, and Singapore. Heurtey Petrochem’s client base includes
the largest global oil companies. In 2006 Heurtey Petrochem
realized a sales turnover of 81.3 mm
Euros. Heurtey
Petrochem securities are traded on the Alternext d' Euronext
Paris Exchange (ALHPC).
Visit www.heurtey.com.
Contacts
Petro-Chem Development
Co., Inc. Stephen T. Limpe, 212-455-6500
slimpe@petro-chemusa.com
Heurtey Petrochem
Michel
Pingeot, 011 33 (0)1 41 93 80 23 Président
heurtey@heurtey.com |
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