CAC Engineering

CAC Engineering GmbH is a chemical plant engineering firm based in Chemnitz, Germany. According to its own account, its origins lie in a machine-building workshop founded in Chemnitz/Saxony in 1811 by craftsman Johann Samuel Schwalbe, from which the well-known 'Germania' machine factory emerged. Since 1964, large-scale plants for the chemical industry have been planned, delivered and commissioned at the Chemnitz site for various domestic and foreign markets. In 1990 the company was taken over by Lurgi AG of Frankfurt am Main, and on 1 April 2004 it was re-founded through a management buy-out (MBO), operating since then as an owner-managed family company. The company presents itself as offering ideas, competence and security within transparent and goal-oriented project management, assigning each customer a dedicated expert team. Its activities include synthetic fuel technology (CAC METHAFUEL®) and large-scale plant and infrastructure projects.

According to the company's own account, the foundation stone of the Chemnitz chemical plant engineering firm CAC was laid in 1811, when craftsman Johann Samuel Schwalbe founded a machine-building workshop in Chemnitz/Saxony, from which the well-known 'Germania' machine factory emerged. Since 1964, large-scale plants for the chemical industry have been planned, delivered and commissioned at the Chemnitz site for various domestic and foreign markets, and the Anlagenbau Chemnitz developed into a specialized firm for international chemical plant engineering. In the course of the social and economic changes within Germany, the company was taken over in 1990 by Lurgi AG of Frankfurt am Main, a long-established, globally operating engineering company. Over the following 14 years, numerous large-scale projects were handled in cooperation with Lurgi AG and under the company's own responsibility. Since 1 April 2004, the re-founding through a management buy-out (MBO), the company has operated again as an owner-managed family company in its traditional and meanwhile also new business fields.

Transparent and goal-oriented project management with a dedicated expert team per customer, minimizing friction losses and maximizing time and cost savings.

• CAC METHAFUEL® technology

  Technology for producing synthetic fuels; used to produce 300,000 liters of synthetic gasoline in the DeCarTrans project.

• Large-scale plants for the chemical industry

  Planned, delivered and commissioned at the Chemnitz site since 1964 for domestic and foreign markets.

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