AMACS - A World Class Leader in Process Tower Internals Since 1930

AMACS is a world-class specialist in the field of process tower internals, with over 80 years of experience and 1,000's of satisfied customers. Formed through the merger of two industry leaders: Amistco Separation Products, and the Separations & Mass Transfer Product Division of ACS Industries, AMACS provides a full complement of process tower internals. Our Houston headquarters houses AMACS' process engineering and mechanical engineering groups, which provide customers with custom solutions for new builds and replacement product needs.

In 2023, AMACS was acquired by PMC Global, Inc., www.pmcglobalinc.com, a privately-held management company and resource partner. Through their 20 subsidiaries, they are a leader in select markets, including plastics/chemicals, manufacturing, food service, packaging and finance. PMC operates in twenty states and 17 countries and employs more than 3,500 worldwide.

Advanced separation and mass transfer technologies

AMACS is a vertically integrated manufacturer of knitted wire mesh mist eliminators, trays, random and structured packing, feed inlet devices, and other tower internals such as liquid distributors, liquid collectors, reactor internals, and liquid-liquid coalescers.

24/7 Turnaround and Emergency Support

AMACS can manufacture custom internals, including replacement trays and packing, in days not weeks. When customers experience a critical process upset or unit turnaround outage, quick response and plant turnaround support is a major factor in minimizing downtime. The AMACS Turnaround Services Team can evaluate a process equipment requirement with a quick phone call and provide solutions that work with your schedule within a few hours.

Process Expertise

Biofuels

Biofuels

AMACS provides engineered products for a wide range of biomass phase contacting and separation applications including; methanol recovery, ethanol purification, vegetable oil processing and other biodiesel processes.

Energy and Exploration

Energy and Exploration

AMACS provides vital process internals for separating oil from produced water, removal of liquids, reduction of glycol and amines, and lower liquid carryover rates. Products include coalescers, vane, mesh-vane and conventional meshpad units, mist eliminators, and more.

Gas Processing

Gas Processing

AMACS supplies a wide range of internals for Gas Processing, including large vane systems to reduce plant emissions, wire mesh pads to eliminate liquid carry-over, mist elimators to reduce glycol and amine losses, and mesh-vane units for high capacity increased volume debottlenecking applications.

Chemical & Petrochemical

Chemical & Petrochemical

AMACS designs and manufactures complete tower and vessel sets for a very wide range of specialty chemical processes including solvents, plastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and fertilizers. We specialize in providing internals for quick replacements during turnarounds or outages.

Refining

Refining

AMACS has decades of experience in mist elimination applications for liquid removal from vapor streams and liquid-liquid separation technologies within the refining industry. We are approved and have long-standing performance records at almost every energy and chemical company around the world.

Waste Water Treatment

Waste Water Treatment

AMACS develops and manufactures coalescer solutions for industrial separation of hydrocarbons and solvents from water. Our patented, award winning coalescing process equipment are used on oil spill clean up from seawater.

Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage

AMACS process internals for the Food and Beverage Industry include starch and sugar baskets, collectors and distributors, flat panel screens, and rotary screens.

Mining

Mining

AMACS is a custom manufacturer that works closely with customers in the Mining Industry to develop the correct products to meet their specifications. The products we supply perform many functions including liquid-liquid coalescing, oil water separation and partial filtration.

Power

Power

AMACS manufactures a full range of tower internals for the Power Industry, including structured and random packing, mist eliminators, and coalescers.

Pulp & Paper

Pulp & Paper

AMACS supplies a wide range of process internals to Pulp & Paper customers including liquid-liquid coalescing, oil water separation and partial filtration.

Offshore

Offshore

AMACS process internals for the Offshore Industry perform many functions including coalescing, oil water separation and partial filtration.

LNG

LNG

AMACS is a custom manufacturer that works closely with customers in the Mining Industry to develop the correct products to meet their specifications. The products we supply perform many functions including liquid-liquid coalescing, oil water separation and partial filtration.