Poerner Engineering

Pörner Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH

Poerner Gruppe
Type	Ingenieurgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung / Company with limited Liability
Industry	Oil and gas
Founded	1972
Key people	Andreas Pörner and Peter Schlossnikel
Products	Plants for refinery, petrochemical, chemical, gas, pharmaceutical, power and environmental industries
Services	Process engineering, industrial engineering, consulting, procurement/logistics, civil and structural engineering
Number of employees	Over 500 employees
Website	www.poerner.at/en.html

The Pörner Group is a technology orientated, engineering and contracting company working on projects for the process industry. The headquarters are situated in Vienna, Austria. The group of companies specialises in various engineering industries such as oil refineries, chemical plants, petrochemical plants, gas plants, power generation, industrial production and the pharmaceutical industry. The organization is made up of a network of several medium-sized companies in these industries.

The Pörner Group was founded by Kurt Thomas Pörner, Who began the Pörner Technical Bureau in 1972. The company grew from there, opening its first subsidiary in Linz in 1975. In the 1970s Pörner Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, situated in Vienna Austria, acquired the rights to license the Biturox® process for upgrading bitumen by means of selective air oxidation developed by the Austrian oil company OMV. Pörner licensed its first Biturox® plant to NIOC Isfahan in Iran.

In parallel with the rapid growth of the industry in Europe and worldwide, in the 1980s the Pörner Group expanded and realized several larger projects for refineries as well as for environmental facilities. In 1992 the Pörner Group opened its first foreign subsidiary in Grimma, Germany which specialises in process plants for the chemical industry. Shortly thereafter another Austrian subsidiary in Kundl, Tyrol was founded to supply the pharmaceutical industry, energy supply and industrial building services in the area.

In 2003 the Pörner group acquired 100% shares in EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft, a Leipzig, Germany based company. EDL specializes in refinery, chemical, petrochemical and gas sector clients.

In 2005 the Pörner Bitumen Packing System was launched and earned the Pörner Group the Austrian State Prize for Consulting. The system allows bitumen to be packed and transported by alternative means, namely in cold state, rather than the traditional way of long distance bulk transportation(see Asphalt).

Gazintek was the next acquisition for the Pörner Group, with the company buying 70% of the shares in 2005 and the remainder in 2007. Gazintek is mainly focused on providing detailed engineering services for the gas industry. Gazintek does business with European and Russian companies who have world-wide interests including Africa and Asia.