History

ACAT Vienna ? the first branch of Applied Chemicals International Ltd ? was founded in December 1994. The successful start is attributed to nine employees with more than ten years of excellent experiences in the fields of applications and products. With the increase in applications and customers further employees have been hired and consequently a new subcompany specialized on the environmental field was founded in Budapest in 1995. After a period of consolidation in 1996 in which a stabilization and diversification in respect to suppliers and customers had taken place, ACAT Basel was founded in 1997. Also in this branch the environmental field was focused in the beginning and strengthened by the field of papertechnology very soon. To improve the services of machine engineering and -logistics a storage was opened in Scheibbs in 2000. Today the enterprises consists of approximately 47 employees working in Vienna, Basel, Budapest and since 2001 in Milan. The small firm has successfully worked its way up to an medium-sized enterprise.

Milestones in the history of ACAT

December 1994
foundation of the first subcompany of Applied Chemicals International plc: ACAT Vienna with the fields of papertechnology and environmental engineering

July 1995
foundation of ACAT Budapest

May 1997
foundation of ACAT Basel

December 1998
start of a 3rd branch: machine- and equipment engineering

February 1999
start of a 4th branch: industrial chemicals

July 2000
building-up a center for machine engineering and ? logistics in Scheibbs

August 2001
foundation of ACAT Milan