Project is part on an ongoing collaboration with Henan Investment Group
Beijing, China, April 1, 2010 - ABB recently won an order to provide automation and drive systems to control and optimize the performance of a new paper machine at Baiyun Paper Company’s paper production facility in Baiyun. The facility is owned by Henan Investment Group, and located 900 kilometers south west of Peking. China. When completed, the new paper machine will have an annual capacity of 136,000 tons
The project is Phase II of a copier and offset paper project of Zhumadian Baiyun Paper Company, and part of a $247 million total investment to expand capacity. It is expected to be operational in April, 2011.
ABB’s automation solution includes a drive system that will optimize the performance of the new paper machine provided by Voith AG. The paper machine has design speed of 1500 m/min, width of 5.28 m. It mainly produces copy paper and offset paper of 60 g/m2 – 120 g/m2. Daily productivity could be as high as 800 tons and annual productivity could be more than 200,000 tons. The paper machine at Baiyun has more complicated technology when compared with paper machines in similar projects, and includes more functions; ABB’s automation solution will ensure that the machine will operate as efficiently as possible.
ABB and Henan Investment Group have collaborated on numerous paper projects over the past ten years, including similar automation projects for Puyang Longfeng, Jiaozuo Ruifeng, as well as Phase I for Bayiun Papers in 2005. All of these projects employ ABB’s integrated process automation control technologies, including electrification, automation, control systems, drive systems, mill type motors pulp line control systems, and related services and support.
“In 2009, ABB’s paper machine drive system for the Puyang Longfeng Papers project won the Excellent Product Award from the China Instrument and Control Society; this is the most well-recognized award in China’s academic and automation community. Now, Henan Investment Group has chosen ABB as its partner again,” said Mr. Lin Shuming, General Manager of ABB Pulp and Paper North Asia “This is definitely a recognition of ABB’s technology, system planning, product quality, engineering capabilities and after-sale services., as well as the results that we deliver to our customers.”
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 117,000 people.
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