ABB to supply chemical delivery and ultrafiltration systems for Shandong Huatai in China

AIX LES BAINS, France, Sept. 18, 2009 (Press Release) - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order for a coating color kitchen, wet-end chemical delivery systems and a waste water treatment unit, from Shandong Huatai Paper Co. Ltd in Dawang City, Shandong Province, China. The project will be delivered by ABB Process Automation Division, Chemical Delivery Center of Excellence (formally Cellier) located in Aix-les-Bains, France. The supplied systems will be used on Shandong Huatai's PM8, their newest paper machine.

ABB will supply the complete coating color kitchen and wet end chemicals preparation units with high shear mixers for pigment make-down, new Dispercel RC for coating color preparation, Filtercels with high pressure cleaning systems for in-line filtration as well as pigged lines for in-place pipe cleaning.

An ultrafiltration unit based on the tangential liquid/solid separation technology will also be provided and installed by ABB. The unit is designed to treat 250 m3 per day of coating effluents and enable the re-use of filtered water as process water. All the supplied processes will be controlled by a Papcel supervisory system that ABB developed for the optimization of coating and paper formulation.

The new 8.1-m-wide PM8 will produce 500,000 tons per year of coated and uncoated fine paper with design speeds of 1,800 m/min. for the paper machine and 2,000 m/min. for the coater.

The new systems are scheduled for start-up in the first quarter of 2011.

Since 2001 ABB has been the chemicals delivery system supplier to Huatai Group for their PM10, PM11, PM12 and PM6 projects. This long term business relationship between Huatai Group and ABB shows the high level of quality, technology and support that ABB provides to its 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 120,000 people.

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