On 24 April 2019, Budimex SA signed a general contracting contract for the Research and Development Centre of PKN ORLEN in Płock. In the future, the R&D Centre will carry out research and development activities related to the refining and petrochemical industry.
The main function of PKN ORLEN’s new investment. in Płock, activities related to the implementation of new technical solutions and work on new products and technologies are to be carried out. The center, with a total of approx. 8500 m2 of usable area, will also work to improve and optimize the processes and products already underway. Therefore, the complex of buildings included in the R&D Centre must meet the requirement of high technological advancement, adapted to the research specificity of the refining and petrochemical industry.
“On a plot of 4.3 hectares, we will build a total of 7 buildings, including m.in. an office building, a technical building with a laboratory, a mapping and piloting hall and an external warehouse with a fuel mixing installation. We are also responsible for creating the road system for this investment,” says Dariusz Blocher, President of Budimex SA.
The EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) formula obliges Budimex SA not only to design and construct the R&D buildings, but also to equip them. The company will also take care of the commissioning of the supplied equipment, m.in. measuring and laboratory equipment that allows m.in. conducting analytical tests on the properties of refining and petrochemical products. This group also includes an installation for preparing fuel mixtures (gasoline and diesel oil) and two engine dynamometer stations for testing the differential properties of fuels.
This is not the first investment that Budimex SA will carry out in Płock. In the years 2012 – 2014, the company built the Corporate Services Center office building in the city for the Płock Industrial and Technological Park. In 2017. The construction of a multi-chamber reactor installation for the decarbonisation process along with the infrastructure has been completed. It was carried out for the same investor, also in the EPC formula. Budimex SA in Płock is also still involved in the modernisation of the tanker treatment plant of the PKN ORLEN production plant, for which the contract was signed in February 2017.
The company has 18 months to work at the R&D center. The deadline for commissioning the investment provided for in the contract is the end of 2020.
