KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has received the prestigious CAPE-OPEN 2024 Award. This distinction reflects the company’s long-standing commitment to open standards that accelerate innovation, improve model integration, and advance digital transformation across the process industries. The recognition also highlights KBC’s role in advancing the next-generation COBIA (CAPE-OPEN Binary Interface), and its sustained technical engagement within the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network (CO-LaN). The award was presented at the CAPE-OPEN Annual Meeting at the Technical University of Berlin in October 2025.
CO-LaN’s Chief Technology Officer, Kyle Abrahams, noted, “This award recognizes KBC’s exemplary implementation of CAPE-OPEN in its Petro-SIM® process simulator and Multiflash® advanced thermodynamics software, its early adoption of COBIA, and its ongoing active engagement.” CAPE-OPEN compliance within Petro-SIM and Multiflash allow seamless integration with third-party models. Both technologies support engineering agility, reduces duplication of effort, and accelerates decision-making.
According to Richard Szczepanski, Senior Consultant at KBC, “We are proud to receive the CAPE-OPEN 2024 Award, which reflects more than 25 years of collaboration between Infochem, KBC, and CO-LaN. It also acknowledges contributions by Ben van der Merwe, Dr. George Winter, Dr. Nuno Pedrosa, and Dr. Behnam Salimi in advancing CAPE-OPEN compliance and interoperable modeling.” He added, “Our collaboration with CO-LaN strengthens our modeling ecosystem and enables our refinery and petrochemical customers to work more flexibly, efficiently, and creatively with best-in-class tools.”
The CAPE-OPEN 2024 Award emphasizes KBC’s role in shaping open, interoperable digital technologies. It enables new possibilities for process simulation and operational excellence while Bringing Decarbonization to Life®.