A plant built around one product is hostage to one market. We design plants governed by parameters — engineered for the process, free to pivot across feedstocks and products without fresh capex. From signed MoU to ribbon-cutting, under a single window.
IDHMA carries a project the way a strategy-and-execution firm carries a client: process science, detailed engineering, turnkey EPC and an operator's judgement — under one accountable roof.
We design for the transformation, not a single SKU — pre-engineering reactors and trains, from the P&ID stage, to flex across chemistries and feedstocks.
Concept, approvals, land, design, equipment, erection and commissioning — single-window delivery from signed MoU to first validated batch.
Refining, splitting, fractionation, esterification and distillation trains engineered for the full oleochemical value chain.
Blending and refining facilities built turnkey — the same parametric, multi-product discipline extended to hydrocarbons.
Bench route to pilot train to validated product — we de-risk the chemistry and the economics before a rupee of capex is committed.
Installations carry Kenop process intelligence — math-first batch chemistry and yield optimisation, built into the plant we hand over.
Markets move. Feedstock prices swing, demand shifts, a product that paid last year barely pays this year. A plant designed around one output is captive to all of it.
So we design differently. We engineer the process — governed by the parameters that actually run a reaction: temperature, pressure, residence time, catalysis and materials of construction — so the asset can be re-pointed as the market turns.
A reactor built for base-catalysed transesterification, if it is pre-engineered for multi-product duty, can equally run acid esterification or enzymatic esterification. One asset, a family of routes, a far wider product window — captured without additional capex.
Correct materials-of-construction selection is the insurance behind that flexibility: choose glass-lined, Hastelloy or SS316L to suit the most aggressive feedstock in scope, and a single facility safely handles many feedstocks for its full life. That principle, applied with discipline, extends across every train we engineer.
Reaction and separation chemistry across the oleochemical value chain — and the parametric design discipline to run several of them through one facility.
Selective and full hydrogenation over nickel catalysis under controlled H₂ pressure — saturating double bonds and tuning iodine value to spec.
Clay-catalysed coupling of unsaturated fatty acids into dimer and trimer acids for polyamides, adhesives, lubricants and corrosion inhibitors.
Base-catalysed transesterification with acid-esterification pre-treatment of high-FFA feeds — from B100 to made-to-spec specialty esters.
The full edible-oil refining sequence: degumming, neutralisation, bleaching and deodorisation to food-grade clarity and stability.
Recovery of high-value unsaponifiables — tocopherols, sterols and waxes — concentrated from deodoriser distillate by short-path distillation.
Fat splitting, glycerolysis and re-esterification across the fatty-acid / glyceride / fatty-acid cycle, with glycerine recovery.
The unit operations and built assets we specify, fabricate and integrate into every train.
Short-path, high-vacuum (sub-millibar) separation with minimal thermal residence — for heat-sensitive fractions like tocopherols and sterols.
Precision packed and tray columns for carbon-chain separation of fatty acids and esters to tight cut specification.
Pressure-rated reactors for hydrogenation and catalytic conversion under tightly controlled temperature and pressure.
Pressure and polishing filtration for catalyst recovery, bleaching-earth removal and product clarification.
Materials of construction matched to corrosive, multi-feedstock service for long, flexible asset life.
Integrated transfer, dosing and refining packages engineered around the full process envelope.
Pre-fabricated, fully instrumented pressure skids for fast, repeatable, low-risk site integration.
Thermal-duty skids with precise heating and cooling control for sensitive, exothermic reactions.
Bespoke unit operations engineered to the exact parameters of your chemistry and capacity.
These are not items off our shelf. They are the outputs of plants we design and build — to your feedstock, your specification and your market. You own the plant; you own the product.
Plants that concentrate natural tocopherols from deodoriser distillate by short-path molecular distillation.
Crystallisation and distillation trains that isolate plant sterols for nutraceutical, pharma and food applications.
Dimerisation lines producing dimer and trimer acids for polyamides, adhesives and lubricants.
Isomerisation and hydrogenation routes for branched, oxidatively-stable fatty acid.
Transesterification plants with FFA pre-treatment, delivering renewable fuel usable directly as B100.
Esterification trains for lubricant, cosmetic, plasticiser and specialty esters, made to spec.
Fractionation columns that cut fatty acids to a tight, single carbon-number specification.
Splitting and blending lines for fatty-acid grades from a range of soft oils and animal-derived feedstocks.
If it can be reduced to parameters, we can engineer the plant that produces it.
One accountable partner across the entire build — a genuine single-window clearance for your plant.
Feasibility, process selection and the parametric design intent.
Statutory approvals and clearances, managed end to end.
Site preparation, civil and infrastructure groundwork.
P&IDs, layouts and the multi-product engineering basis.
Detailed mechanical, process and instrumentation design.
Reactors, columns, skids and systems specified and supplied.
Installation, piping and integration of the full train.
Start-up, validation and handover of an operating asset.
Every flexible plant raises the same question — at this feedstock, this FFA, this batch, what is the right dose, the right route, the right yield? Kenop, our own intelligence platform, answers it. We extend it into the installations we build, so the plant doesn't just run flexibly — it runs smart.
Math first, model second — deterministic chemistry does the heavy lifting, intelligence handles the judgement. That is the moat we hand over with the asset.
Not every problem needs a full build. Bring us in for exactly the piece you need.
Senior process and engineering counsel, available when and where you need it.
Co-develop new routes and chemistries alongside our lab and process teams.
Independent representation in your dealings with existing vendors and OEMs.
Define, optimise and scale a robust, parameter-governed process.
De-risk at pilot scale before committing to full-plant capex.
From target molecule to validated, market-ready specification.
Our facility in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, is dedicated to oleochemical processing and ester chemistry. It is where the parametric, multi-product philosophy we sell is proven every day, at production scale.
So every plant we engineer for a client is backed by an operator's hard-won knowledge — what truly holds up to corrosive feedstock, what a flexible reactor actually demands, and where the margin really lives.
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