Training Course in Brazil: The Innovation Engineering
Intratec teaches how to apply “innovation” and take advantage of it in the nowadays ever-changing business environment
It has become necessary for companies to learn, at fast pace, about new products and processes, understand what is happening in the outside environment and, most importantly, propose innovative and effective solutions to their daily challenges.
At Intratec, and for some of the world’s most prestigious companies, improving learning capacity and knowledge sharing within the organization is the way to do it. That’s how such companies:
Maintain levels of innovation and remain competitive
Are better placed to respond to external pressures and have the knowledge to better link resources to customer needs
Improve quality of outputs at all levels
However, researches among several companies from a variety of sectors around the world reveal that they are not able to adapt, and the main cause for it is precisely “failure to innovate”.
After many years successfully doing “innovation”, Intratec will now teach its methods and practices to make innovation profitable in corporate environments.
Course brief description: a short training course about Innovation Engineering, to be taught in Brazil (in Portuguese) in partnership with some of the most renowned local universities.
Who should attend: professionals from several areas, entrepreneurs, executives and academics that want to learn how to address today's rapidly changing business landscape.
For more information about the courses in Brazil, contact Intratec’s Rio office at +55 (21) 2429-7635 or
Green chemistry on the rise
Intratec develops pioneer study approaching green plastics production.
As many customers and investors increasingly want to know how chemical companies are addressing sustainable issues, several waves of sustainability thinking are sweeping across chemical producers, with some companies further advanced than others. There are the ones who are still focusing only on the energy usage and the carbon footprint, but there are the ones that are a step ahead, and also started examining the products themselves, beginning to ask whether they can produce materials in a more sustainable manner from renewable feedstocks.
Besides protecting against future tightness of oil supplies and likely higher oil prices, the use of "sustainable chemicals" also offers the potential to reduce carbon emissions. Such features make the development of green chemicals an emerging trend that will soon become a real competitive advantage for those who are beginning with that now.
However, many big issues revolving around green plastics production require expert advising. With its deep expertise regarding the petrochemical sector and sustainable technologies, Intratec has just finished a comprehensive study approaching a wide range of green plastics manufacturing possibilities. This very pioneer study truly supported the complex decision-making process of a world class petrochemical company by answering key-questions as what renewable sources must be used*, the technology chain to be adopted*, what the capital, operating and logistic costs will be, and what the best strategy to join this brand new market is.
(*) The study focused on agricultural residues – corn, rice, wheat, soy, etc – different types of grass, sugarcane ethanol, corn ethanol, biodiesel by-product glycerol, manure, and vegetable oils processed by several different technologies.
Energy savings up to 20% in radiant tube systems
Energy saving solution proposed by Intratec reduces considerably fuel consumption in radiant tube heating systems.
It’s no secret that metal making companies are significantly impacted by energy costs. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the cost of purchasing energy represents about 15 percent of the total manufacturing cost for steel, for example. Because of such intensive energy use, those industries consider energy costs to be an important focus for investment and operating decisions.
Amid the nowadays crisis the pressure to reduce those energy costs is even greater...and Intratec is aligned with that. A recent project of ours was developed for a world-class metal making complex. We were challenged to come up with innovative and effective energy savings opportunities to improve client’s energy performance.
We focused on radiant tubes systems and delivered a solution that is engineered for easy installation, improves productivity and reduces NOx and CO2 emissions, being environmentally friendly. We are talking about natural gas savings up to 20% depending on the radiant tube furnace and electricity reduction of about 15% in the exhaust system.
To know more about Intratecand Metal Making Industry, click here.
Heat Optimization Increases EBITDA by 25%
Natural gas prices have been increasing rapidly for the last years and, according to specialists, this trend is expected to continue in the near- and long-term future. Companies all over the world are aware of this scenario and have been putting their efforts into energy savings projects. Of course that it becomes an even bigger need for manufacturers who have energy-intensive processes like the manufacture of elastomer.
Intratec has recently been involved in one of these projects: a world's leader elastomer manufacturer hired us to come up with new ideas and innovative solutions to reduce its energy consumption. After studying the process in details, developing computational simulations, and performing different energy analysis like pinch analysis, gap analysis, benchmarking studies, etc., we have found out that there is room for energy savings even in top technology processes.
The innovative ideas and practices were able to improve equipments efficiency and reduce natural gas consumption by about 30%. Additionally, Intratec provided an implementation schedule, which will allow savings of more than US$ 1 million per year in the first years with no investment. On the bottom line facility's EBITDA was increased by 25%, and now the company is looking for applying the same ideas in similar facilities.
Client saves millions by improving sealing systems
One of world's top 5 rubber manufacturers has tried to solve a problem in the pump sealing system in many ways, including practices from some rubber experts and senior consultants, but none of those recommendations could eliminate the waste of about US$ 1 million per year generated by such inefficiency.
Due to the intermediate product generated by its production process, even top technology rubber manufacturers can be subjected to failures in pump sealing systems, increasing maintenance cost and causing production losses. It is a high viscosity liquid, which is hard to pump and needs a complex sealing system.
Recently, Intratec delivered a project to save that cost and improve the pump sealing system reliability, operational continuity and environmental indexes, providing solutions that make the operation closer to excellence.
As we've been noting from working with many industries, looking from different perspectives is what makes Intratec able to see some problems, and different answers to them, that others can't.
Maintain levels of innovation and remain competitive 
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