Casale Chemicals, the youngest company of the Casale Group, was established in 1995 to focus on processes and products related or complementary to the activities of the other companies of the group.

One of the main uses of methanol is in the production of formaldehyde, a chemistry building block for which demand is growing. Casale Chemicals is now proposing a new methanol-to-formaldehyde process based on a new reactor design.In the new design, the reaction heat is recovered by producing medium-pressure steam by direct heat exchange with the process gas, eliminating the heat transfer medium common to all state-of-the-art tubular reactors. The new reactor is proposed either for new plants or for replacement of existing units.

Casale Chemicals is also active in the development of other processes using methanol as raw material, such as the MTO (Methanol to Olefins) and dimethyl ether production processes.

Another field in which Casale Chemicals is becoming more and more active and successful is the design of special burners for partial oxidation and autothermal reforming.  The new burner designs developed by Casale Chemicals can be, and already have been, applied in the generation of synthesis gas for the production of ammonia and methanol as well as to the production of technical gases.

Casale Chemicals is also active in the field of hydrogen production processes and constructs and commercializes pressurized water electrolysers of advanced type, to cover the small-to-medium hydrogen production range, where reformers lose their economic advantage.  This is the capacity range needed to meet the hydrogen requirements of many specialty chemical products, which currently rely on merchant hydrogen marketed in high-pressure cylinders.

Advanced water electrolysers powered by renewable energy sources are also a fundamental innovative technological contribution of Casale Chemicals to the  advancement of hydrogen as an alternative form of energy for the 21st century.