The companies of the VTU Group develop and design plants for the process industry, especially for the life sciences, chemicals, metallurgy and oil & gas sectors. Our services range from plant optimisation up to general planning of major investments. VTU was founded in 1990 as a one-man firm in Graz and has grown steadily to become an international technology group. Today, more than 900 employees work on projects all over the world and generate an annual turnover of over 100 million euros. The 28 locations of the VTU Group are spread across Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland and Romania, with the head office in Grambach near Graz. The VTU Group is committed to every aspect of sustainability.That means long-term thinking regarding the development up the company and a strict policy on the development and maintaining of know-how. This results in sustainable economic advantages, the resilience of the company and great job security for our employees. We respond to the environmental factor of sustainability in both our internal processes and our planning projects. We have the greatest influence in external projects when we are able to plan process systems together with our industrial customers in which the consumption of energy and resources is kept as low as possible and innovative recycling techniques are applied. At the same time, we are stepping up our activities in innovative projects, for example, the use of hydrogen as an energy storage medium, the recycling of plastic waste, and the recovery of solvents from waste streams. In this respect, we operate according to the principles of Green Chemistry, which means we are at the cutting edge of technology and beyond. This experience is of lasting benefit to the environment when improving systems or planning new ones – and therefore benefits our customers.