e type a s industry chemicals petrochemicals fuels and oils natural gas founded 1940 headquarters ravnholm denmark key people haldor tops e founder henrik tops e chairman of the board bjerne s. clausen ceo products catalyst portfolio technology portfolio technical service portfolio safety datasheets tech support revenue dkk 5 785 million fy 2015 1 operating income dkk 502 million 1 net income dkk 322 million 1 total assets dkk 7 194 million 1 total equity dkk 2 003 million 1 number of employees 2 688 1 slogan catalyzing your business website haldortopsoe.com dr. haldor tops e founder 2008 haldor tops e is a danish catalysis company founded in 1940 by dr. haldor tops e 1913 2013 . the company has over 2700 employees all over the world of which 2100 work in denmark . 2 haldor tops e specialises in the production of heterogeneous catalysts and the design of process plants based on catalytic processes . focus areas include the fertiliser industry chemical and petrochemical industries and the energy sector refineries and power plants . haldor tops e a s is one of the world s leading companies within the field of heterogeneous catalysis and over 50 percent of the ammonia used for fertilizer on a worldwide scale is made with the help of technology from haldor tops e. haldor tops e headquarters in lyngby denmark . the headquarters and main research labs are located in lyngby a northern suburb of copenhagen denmark manufacturing of catalysts is carried out in frederikssund denmark and in houston texas . the company has offices in bahrain canada china india malaysia russia argentina iran 3 and the usa . 4 haldor tops e s catalysts and technologies are used to clean oil and ensure more environmentally friendly fuels for cleaning power industry flue gasses for converting hydrocarbon feedstocks such as natural gas and lpg into ammonia hydrogen and methanol and for reducing emission from heavy duty vehicles . in chemical plants catalysts and processes optimize resources ensuring highly efficient energy processes . the company frequently collaborates with the technical university of denmark 5 6 7 8 and its research has been regularly published in scientific journals . 9 10 11 12 the founder haldor tops e died on may 20 2013 after a short illness just four days before his 100th birthday . he was the chairman of the company from its founding until his death . his son henrik is now chairman of the board and executive vice president while bjerne s. clausen is president and ceo . 13 14 history edit haldor tops e a s was founded in 1940 by dr. haldor tops e 1913 2013 . during world war ii the company got permission to use the labs at the polytechnic educational establishment and in 1943 they moved to facilities in hellerup north of copenhagen . the move meant that the company was now able to expand its field of work because of the access to additional equipment . during the war tops e worked as a consultancy company for several swedish companies . the contact to sweden was primarily arranged by the so called wallenberg group . in 1944 tops e produced the first small batch of sulphuric acid catalysts . another company success came in 1948 when the development of the first nickel catalyst was finalized . that same year tops e began cooperating with varg ns ab in varg n sweden with the aim of producing a catalyst for ammonia synthesis . shortly after the war had come to an end tops e became engaged in various activities in mexico activities that were connected to tops e s financial contacts in the us including the world bank . this led to the company s involvement in the planning of mexico s technical development as well as in the american agronomist norman borlaug s experiment with wheat in the sonora region of northern mexico . in the years following 1950 tops e renewed its contacts with the research environment of the soviet union and maintained close contact for several years with both the scientific environment and organisations involved with engineering within the field of catalysis . in 1955 tops e established the french subsidiary haldor tops e s.a. and opened an office in paris . throughout the years tops e was involved in many industrial activities some privately and some publicly governed and built several industrial plants . one of the bigger projects in which tops e was involved was the construction of a heavy water plant in northern france . in 1958 tops e bought the estate linderupgaard situated outside frederikssund and the estate has been used for production of catalysts ever since . tops e opened a department in new york in 1961 called haldor topsoe inc. and four years later the company furthermore bought a lot in houston texas that is now being used for one of tops e s production plants . in 1971 the office was moved from new york to houston as well . in the years 1971 1971 tops e established several big ammonia plants around the world . in 1972 the ownership of tops e changed from being a privately owned company to being a public limited company owned 50 50 by both haldor tops e and the italian company snamproggeti . in 1973 the tops e headquarters moved from to s borg from vedb k where it has been situated since 1964 . just a year later in 1974 tops e moved the headquarters to its present location in ravnholm . in the beginning of the 1980s tops e opened two offices in asia one in delhi and one in beijing . in the beginning of the 1990s to the mid 90 s tops e opened its two offices in moscow and jaroslavl in russia as well as a department in los angeles . in 1999 tops e bought a new transmission electron microscope and thereby became the first company in the world that was able to see details down to 1.2 angstrom . in 2007 haldor tops e bought back all the shares from the italian contracting company saipem which had bought snamprogetti for dkk 2.6 billion . 15 that same year haldor tops e s subsidiary topsoe fuel cell initiated the construction of denmark s first fuel cell production plant that produces high temperature solid oxide fuel cells also known as sofc for environmentally friendly green electricity and heat for trucks houses hospitals and super markets . 16 references edit a b c d e f http www.topsoe.com news 2016 03 topsoe annual report 2015 results influenced challenging market conditions market csrhub social responsibility and sustainability information on haldor topsoe . csrhub . retrieved 9 september 2015 . topsoe opens office in tehran and celebrates new deal . 4 february 2016 . http www.topsoe.com global locations dtu and haldor topsoe signs new electrolysis agreement . 6 november 2014 . tops e og dtu f r 12 mio . kr . til at omdanne sukker til bioplast in danish . 3 february 2016 . haldor tops e om samarbejde med dtu . dtu . 28 january 2016 . heterogeneous catalysis . study published in nature materials topsoe takes a new quantum leap in understanding catalysis in action . 27 july 2014 . n rskov j.k. ; bligaard t. ; logadottir a. ; bahn s. ; hansen l.b. ; bollinger m. ; bengaard h. ; hammer b. ; sljivancanin z. ; mavrikakis m. ; xu y. ; dahl s. ; jacobsen c.j.h. 2002 . universality in heterogeneous catalysis . journal of catalysis . 209 2 275 278 . doi 10.1006 jcat .2002.3615 . issn 0021 9517 . bengaard h.s. ; n rskov j.k. ; sehested j. ; clausen b.s. ; nielsen l.p. ; molenbroek a.m. ; rostrup nielsen j.r. 2002 . steam reforming and graphite formation on ni catalysts . journal of catalysis . 209 2 365 384 . doi 10.1006 jcat .2002.3579 . issn 0021 9517 . hansen p. l. 2002 . atom resolved imaging of dynamic shape changes in supported copper nanocrystals . science . 295 5562 2053 2055 . doi 10.1126 science .1069325 . issn 0036 8075 . http www.topsoe.com about us corporate % 20profile management.aspx 20 5 2013 haldor tops e has passed away topsoe.com retrieved 20 5 2013 http ing.dk artikel 81886 http www.mypresswire.com pressroom 26995 pressrelease 53255 external links edit company website an annual reviews conversations interview 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