Founded by experienced chemical engineers (Rajul Rastogi and Atulya Saraf) over 25 years ago, Astron international offers a unique blend of refining industry domain knowledge, business process expertise, and proven digital application skills involving technical data, technical applications, and natural language processing. Astron International provides the following digitalization technologies and services: (a) strategic technical service applications for efficient analysis of operating data and increased productivity, and (b) a natural language processing platform called Delfin based on advances in text analytics and machine learning for customers to unearth expertise and data buried in libraries of inhouse documents and other unstructured data. Astron International is also the founder of Refining Online®, a leading Web portal serving the refining industry for over 20 years and provides refining consulting services.