SENER engineering and technology group has purchased the Brazilian engineering company EXEN, and now owns a 100% stake in the company. EXEN specialises in industrial projects in the power and petrochemical sectors. This acquisition strengthens SENER’s capacities in Brazil, where the group has an operating division with 350 professionals from the engineering and construction sector who develop projects in the fields of Power and Process, Infrastructures and Transport, Aerospace and Marine. SENER also controls 48% of the engineering firm SETEPLA, specialised in civil engineering.
EXEN, which was founded in 2005, is a renowned firm handling major projects including the detailed engineering services for the Presidente Bernardes refinery owned by Petrobras, the expansion of the agricultural pesticides unit of Dow Chemical’s AgroSciences division and the thermal generation plants Pernambuco III and Termopower V owned by Multiner, among others.
In announcing the agreement, the General Manager of SENER in Brazil, Guido Casanova, highlighted EXEN’s strengths in the field of power generation and the high quality of their projects and emphasised, “There has been a great deal of positive synergy with EXEN from the start. No doubt this acquisition will enrich our team’s technical capabilities, thanks to EXEN’s deep knowledge of the Brazilian market and their extensive experience in key sectors such as the petrochemical industry”.
EXEN’s founding partners Alexandre Gama and Gilberto Yamamoto, added, “Now we will be able to handle major contracts in other areas, such as contracts related to regasification plants, for which SENER is an international benchmark”.
