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As we adapt to the changing globalmarketplace, ABB’s Pulp and Paperbusiness unit has taken a crucial stepthat underscores our strong industrycommitment: We built a brand newQCS/WIS facility in Shanghai, China,that is now open for business. After an official opening ceremony onNovember 18, 2010, our state-of-the-art facility began manufacturing andshipping products to China andthroughout the world.

Importantly, moving our QCS andWIS business to Shanghai, one of theworld’s largest cities, puts us in themiddle of the biggest growth marketfor our products. It’s in keeping withABB’s overall strategy of aligning ourglobal manufacturing footprint withmarket demand.

ABB has a leading position in all ofthe world’s major markets, includinggrowth markets such as China andIndia. Our customers benefit directlyfrom our global operations, becauseour footprint in these areas allows usto lower the cost of our products andbe more competitive.

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Tom O’ReillyGeneral ManagerCoE QCS/WISPulp and PaperProcess Automation Divisiontom.o’[email protected]

Customer letter

Long before opening the newShanghai factory, ABB had a presencein China. We established our ChinesePulp and Paper business unit in 1994.Starting with a small group of peoplewe built a local team of 136 peoplethat has delivered DCS, QCS, Drivesand Electrification projects to some ofthe world’s largest mills.

I have been in the QCS businesssince 1985, and have served as ABB’sQCS global manager for the past nineyears. Recently I moved from Dundalk,Ireland, to Shanghai, to oversee ournew manufacturing base – and I havefound this to be one of most excitingtimes of my career. One thing that I ammost proud of is the quality of ourfacility’s workforce. Our team not onlyhas a high level of knowledge and skillbut they are also extremely motivatedto respond to customer needs.

At the new facility, we manufacturesophisticated measurement and con-trol systems specifically created for thepulp and paper industry. We capitalizeon the expertise in sensing, control,firmware, software and electronics

ShanghaiAsia and beyond. ABB’s new QCS and WIS manufac-turing facility is open for business.03 Nettingsdorfer

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Contents

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Articles03 Shanghai

Open for business. ABB QCS and WIS manufacturingmoves to a new-state-of-the art facility in the Sahnghai,China.

07 NettingsdorferManagers at Smurfit Kappa’s Nettingsdorfer mill inAustria, chose ABB’s Direct Drive gearless technologyfor their PM6.

09 Favini A new ABB QCS system and HPIR sensor make dramatic improvements at Favini’s Rossano Veneto mill.

11 Huatai PaperABB helps Shandong Huatai with one of the most challenging paper equipment projects in the China.

Latest ABB news13 New orders and news from around the world.

that has enabled ABB to be the QCSmarket leader.

In this edition of Performance-Partner, you can read more about ournew Shanghai facility and the strengthsit brings to the region and beyond.You’ll also find out more about “InChina, for the world” – it’s our strategy,and a business philosophy we areproud to have.

The customers who have alreadyvisited our new Shanghai facility havecome away with a deeper understand-ing of ABB’s continuing dedication toproduct innovation and quality. I hopeas you read about our new factory youwill capture the enthusiasm that wehave for this exciting venture in thecenter of our market.

FaviniRenaissance at Favini’sRossano Veneto mill09

HuataiTailor-made control for high-end projects11


Shanghai

Asia and beyondABB opens a new Shanghai QCS and WIS manufacturing center for its pulp and paper business that further optimizesABB’s global footprint with “in China, for the world” strategy.


Shanghai

t’s a consolidation that more precisely meets the demands ofthe global papermaking market:late last year ABB launched a

new factory for Quality ControlSystems (QCS) and Web ImagingSystems (WIS) in Shanghai, China.After an opening ceremony onNovember 18, the state-of-the-artfacility became ABB’s only manufactur-ing base for QCS and WIS worldwide.

The move was made to optimizeABB’s global business footprint andexemplify its “in China, for the world”

approach. The factory is already fullyoperational and delivering leading-edgetechnology to customers in Asia andaround the world.

Roger Bailey, global manager ofABB’s Pulp and Paper Business, saidthe decision to locate the new factoryin Shanghai was based on ABB’s con-tinuing strategy to align its footprintwith market demand.

“Most new paper machines arebeing built in Asia, and to better sup-port this demand, we needed to investin the region,” said Bailey. “We came

Ito the conclusion that we are not talk-ing about ‘Made in China’ but ‘Madeby ABB’.”

The new factory, located in theShanghai Pudong New Area, covers9,000 square meters. Customdesigned to meet ABB manufacturingspecifications, it includes areas for fab-rication, testing, welding and storage.

Tobias Becker, head of the ProcessAutomation Division, ABB North AsiaRegion and ABB China, said,“Emerging markets such as China,Brazil and Indonesia became growth


Shanghai

ABB’s history with Chinese industrybegan more than 100 years ago, when ABB began delivering boilers toChinese factories. Since then, ABB hasdeveloped the most comprehensivepool of specialists and the strongestservice capabilities currently servingthe country’s paper industry.

ABB began establishing its Chinesepulp and paper team in 1994, and setup branches in Beijing, Shanghai andGuangzhou. Today ABB has success-fully completed more than 500 signifi-cant projects in China and built long-

engines of the global paper industry.Their rapid development is fuelingdemand for all kinds of automationtechnologies and is establishing thelatest industry trends. The commis-sioning of the new factory is ABBGroup’s most recent move to optimizeour global business footprint. It allowsus to promptly respond to both Asiaand the global markets, and sustain-ably provide leading products andservices to our global customers.”

QCS and WIS: essential for product qualityABB’s Pulp and Paper Business Unittransferred all of its QCS and WISmanufacturing from Ireland and Finlandto the new Shanghai site. Researchand development, product support andmarketing continue to be supported in Ireland.

ABB’s QCS controls productionquality by analyzing the paper’s moisture, thickness, gloss and otherphysical parameters with various types of sensors. This analysis helpspapermakers control quality andreduce product waste.

ABB’s WIS detects and reportsdefects, including holes, spots andstreaks. It helps mill personnel makesound decisions and perform neededadjustments during production to avoid problems.

The Shanghai facility has the abilityto take each QCS and WIS projectfrom purchase order to client handover.Paper mills can also obtain servicesupport from ABB that ranges fromspare parts to on-demand service tofull service with onsite maintenance.

Win-win cooperationOver the past decade, China’s paperindustry has experienced especiallyfast expansion. ABB engineers andtechnicians have worked with Chinesepaper mills to contribute to this breath-taking growth in products and techno-logical expertise.

Active in more than 100 countriesworldwide, ABB has an extensive portfolio of pulp and paper productsand services that are very relevant tothe technological challenges facingChina’s papermakers.

term partnerships with paper compa-nies that include Hengan Paper, NineDragons Paper, Lee & Man Paper andHuatai Group.

As ABB analyzed its global pulp andpaper business they understood thatby designing and building systems inChina they could reduce the costs offabrication and avoid expensive ship-ping costs from North America andEurope. In the past, QCS and WISwere typically built by specialized com-panies in North America or WesternEurope and then shipped across the


Shanghai

globe, but the pulp and paper boom in China and Southeast Asia changedmarket dynamics. By making thestrategic decision to move its QCS and WIS manufacturing to Shanghai,ABB positioned itself to better servethe needs of the Asian market, andespecially China.

With the opening of the Shanghaifacility, ABB continues to expand itsfootprint in China. ABB is currentlylaunching a transformer design centerin Chongqing, and setting up a newjoint venture company consisting of

ABB Tianjin Switchgear Co, Ltd andTianjin Binhai Huineng Investment Co, Ltd.

ABB has also stressed localization in China. Currently, over 90 percent of ABB’s businesses in China featurelocally originated products and servic-es, and 99 percent of ABB China’s13,000 employees are Chinese citi-zens.

A good corporate citizenIn China as in other countries, ABBstrives to be a good corporate citizen.

ABB runs a wide variety of programsthat support education, environmentalissues and charitable causes. ABBprovides scholarship assistance toneedy Chinese university students that helps them fulfill their dreams. The company has also worked withvocational schools in Xiamen andChongqing to set up “ABB Classes”that help students develop their skills.

In keeping with ABB’s commitmentto the environment, ABB supportsmany environmental protection cam-paigns in China. One of the mostimportant is ABB’s efforts with a keycustomer, Inner Mongolia PowerCompany, to fight against desertifica-tion in Ordos, a city in China’s northInner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

ABB raised USD 150,000 for a proj-ect to improve the housing conditionsof 1,000 elderly people in Shanghai. InXiamen, ABB employees participated inthe “Water of Life” campaign. ABBemployees also provided support forthe Shanghai Special Olympics.

Staff experience and expertiseOne of the most important benefits thenew ABB Shanghai facility brings tothe pulp and paper industry is a multi-national, multidiscipline staff with theexperience and track record to handlemajor global projects. These expertsgive ABB the ability to deliver systemsat extremely competitive prices.

ABB recruited and trained local per-sonnel for their new Shanghai factory.Those chosen to staff the center havethe engineering skills and motivation toensure precise fabrication and on-timesystem delivery. Mills can also draw onexceptional local after-sales support,provided by ABB’s specialized pulpand paper service engineers. The sameABB multidiscipline project team isinvolved throughout a project’s lifecy-cle, an approach that reduces costsand creates long term reliability, easeof maintenance and lower total cost ofownership for customers.

With a new manufacturing facilitypositioned to meet the needs of achanging pulp and paper marketplace,ABB is now better able to deliver products to China – and the rest of the world.


Nettingsdorfer

murfit Kappa’s Nettingsdorfermill in northern Austria, cameto a crossroads when theaging drives on their PM6

started causing unscheduled down-time. Mill managers had a decision to make: should they replace theirdrive system? And if so, what kind of replacement drives would be thebest investment for them?

After intensive analysis the millchose to add a completely new drivesystem – and they asked ABB to supply them with Direct Drive highly-advanced gearless technology.

The last time Nettingsdorfer pur-chased a new drive system for theirPM6 was in 1984, when the paper

SSmurfit Kappa’s Nettingsdorfer millinvests in the future with ABB’s gearlessdrives that lower energy use and reducedowntime.

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Nettingsdorfer

purchase. In Nettingsdorfer’s case, millmanagers began to discuss replacingthe PM6 drives a full five years beforeplacing their order.

As Nettingsdorfer considered whichkinds of drives to purchase, mill execu-tives kept in mind their main goals:reducing downtime and lowering maintenance costs. To determinewhich technology would best meettheir objectives, they assessed bothconventional gears and gearless direct drives.

After comparing each alternative,the mill decided that although a con-ventional drive system would cost less in the short term, gearless driveswould be more cost effective in thelong run because they keep mainte-nance costs low, while increasingmachine uptime. Importantly, gearlessdrives use less energy so they are agreener alternative.

Gearless for a longterm solutionOne of the world’s largest paper com-panies, the Smurfit Kappa Group hassales of more than USD 10.1 billionand 40,000 employees in more than 30 countries. The company is theEuropean leader in containerboard,solid board, corrugated and solidboard packaging.

Nettingsdorfer won the “Paper Millof the Year” award for 2009, an honorthey received at the Smurfit KappaManagement Conference in Dublin,Ireland in March 2010.

At the awards ceremony, SmurfitKappa COO, Ian Curley, stressed thatNettingsdorfer was a “worthy winnerthanks to its continuous and exemplaryreliability and planning security.” Healso cited the high levels of dedicationand individual responsibility shown bythe mill’s staff, which, he said, led toNettingsdorfer’s excellent performance.

In his remarks, Curley singled outthe success of the PM6 drives projectand said it played a key part in thedecision to give the award toNettingsdorfer. Said Curley: “This highly complex and demanding projectwas only possible due to the consider-able expertise of all employees and the strict organizational measures within the proposed time and budget

machine’s speed averaged 750 m/min.But 20-plus years and several machinerebuilds later, PM6 was running atspeeds up to 1,100 m/min – and the original drives were struggling tokeep up. The outdated drive systemwasn’t designed to operate at highspeeds, and as a result the automationwas experiencing heavy wear and tear – and the paper machine, whichhad a long history of solid output, was beginning to have unscheduledshutdowns.

The Smurfit Kappa Group has a setprocedure for making new equipmentinvestments; each of the company’smills needs to perform a rigorousanalysis before proceeding with a

constraints, without any productionlosses.”

Implemented in the summer of2009, the PM6 project involvedinstalling a totally new drive system.ABB provided new control automationincluding motors, frequency convert-ers, transformers and cabling.

The Direct Drive solution is a combination of AC drives, traditional or new Permanent Magnet motors and both motor control and systemcontrol features designed for the DirectDrive. Used in pulp and paper millsaround the world since 1999, ABB’sDirect Drive dramatically reduces theneed for mechanical drive componentsand machine space by coupling themotor directly to the paper machine.

Energy consumption reduced by 10 percentNettingsdorfer planned that their PM6would have to be shutdown for threeweeks while the installation of theirnew drive system took place. But ittook only 19 days for the old drives to be removed and all of the new components installed. An hour afterstartup, the new system was produc-ing sellable paper.

With the new drive system in place,the mill quickly found that PM6 wasrunning smoothly, with dramaticallyincreased availability. Unplanned shut-downs were no longer the problemthey had been when the machine hadthe outdated drives. Another benefit:speed control was now more precise.Mill managers calculate that with these changes they have added twofull production days per year.

Maintenance was now easier andmore predictable with gearless tech-nology, reducing costs, staff time and downtime.

One of the most critical advantagesNettingsdorfer gained is reduced ener-gy consumption. The mill estimatesthat it saves 10 percent on its energyuse, resulting in a savings of USD243,000.

Working with ABB, the mill has beenable to implement the gearlessautomation that will help them meetperformance, maintenance and energyconsumption goals for years to come.


Favini

Favini’s Rossano Veneto mill adds new HPIR moisture sensorand quality control system to its 60 year old paper machineand improves quality and dramatically reduces product waste.


Favini

lthough Favini’s RossanoVeneto mill had a strong-performer in its PM1, thepaper machine, installed in

1948, was badly in need of updatedquality control. With the old equipment,mill engineers did not have access tothe precise measurement data neces-sary for ensuring product quality. Andproblematically, replacement partswere no longer available for themachine’s dials and gauges. Afterdetailed discussions with ABB, in mid-2009 Rossano Veneto decided topurchase a new ABB Quality ControlSystem (QCS). As part of the order,Rossano Veneto became one of thefirst mills in the world to install ABB’sHigh-Performance Infrared (HPIR)moisture sensor.

From the start, mill managementhad clear-cut project goals: they want-ed a system that was user friendly and that could monitor the process for consistent production results andminimized waste. With key personnelreaching retirement age, mill managerswere especially interested in makingsure their new automation would beeasy to operate. They also needed tohave production data readily available.

The QCS order for PM1 included a server and engineering station; operator station, control network with TCP/IP; frame and sensors with TCP/IP; NP reflection platform and HPIR.

After installing the new ABB qualitycontrol, mill personnel quickly decidedthat system performance met andexceeded their goals. They found thatdata was easy to access, read andunderstand, and they were able toachieve greater product consistencyand lower waste.

User friendly technologyFavini, which has been in business formore than 250 years, is an Italian

papermaker with two mills: RossanoVeneto (near Venice) and Crusinallo(north of Milan). Favini’s core productsare specialty fine papers, industrialrelease papers and a converting operation for producing office andschool products. The companyemploys 450 people.

Known for its commitment to theenvironment, Favini uses pulp that isElemental Chlorine Free and comesfrom managed forests. At RossanoVeneto, mill water is recycled andreturned to local waterways after being purified. To make their operationeven greener, exceptionally lowamounts of water are used duringpaper production.

Rossano Veneto began productionin 1736 when the Republic of Veniceauthorized a wood mill in the town ofRossano Veneto to manufacture paper.Today Favini’s Rossano Veneto millspecializes in converting paper foreducation and office use, high qualityand colored paper, board, embossedpaper and green paper products.

ABB worked closely with RossanoVeneto to prepare for their new QCS.After extensive preplanning, startuptook just a week. In days the systemwas up and running.

Key production data to improve CD controlThe new HPIR transformed RossanoVeneto’s moisture measurement by giving mill operators a much betterunderstanding of what was actuallyhappening during production. They can easily view measurement data,which is continuously fed into QCSdisplays and contour maps. This pro-vides mill engineers with a solid way to view and assess data – and theycan create a better process model toimprove CD control performance.

Intended as a replacement for thepopular HemiPlus moisture sensor,

ABB’s HPIR is designed to improve the performance and reliability of bothnew and existing ABB QCS systems.With HPIR, papermakers can havemore confidence in the precision oftheir moisture measurement. They canachieve tighter CD control, and fasterstartups and grade changes.Papermakers can shift their moisturetargets closer to acceptable qualitylimits, saving energy and reducing fibercosts while remaining within the papergrade’s quality specifications.

The increased precision comes from several technical breakthroughs in the design that significantly increasethe signal-to-noise ratio and the meas-urement rate of the sensor. As a result,the sensor can resolve moisturestreaks as narrow as 4 mm. With ameasurement rate of 5,000 per sec-ond, the sensor provides precisionmeasurements, even as papermachines continue to become widerand faster.

The HPIR’s design simplicity hasbeen very helpful for Rossano Venetopersonnel. HPIR does not require liquidcooling and has no continuously-mov-ing parts. Mill workers can easilyreplace modules, avoiding factoryrepairs and eliminating the need tostock a complete spare sensor.

At Rossano Veneto, product wastewas dramatically decreased becausethe new QCS gave personnel the toolsto more accurately control the process.Mill managers say waste has beenreduced from 15 percent to only fouror five percent.

The mill can now make gradechanges on PM1 much more quicklyand achieve faster startups, whichincreased production and helped meetproduct demand.

Along with benefits like smootheroperation and better quality, the mill isexperiencing another highly positiveresult: greater customer satisfaction.

Renaissance at Favini

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Huatai

n January this year, ABB completedthe commissioning of a PMC800multi-drive control system in a high-end coated paper project at

Huatai Paper. Installed on the mill’sPM8, a machine with an annual pro-duction of 700,000 tons, the systemmet Huatai’s design requirements – it solves the problem of off-machinecoating automation control, ensuressmooth and highly efficient operationand realizes energy savings and emis-sion reduction.

There are only two off-machinecoaters of the same type in China, and each is equipped with ABB drivesystems. Commissioned in 2004 and2005 respectively, each is operatingwell.

Huatai obtained tailor-made, world-lead-ing technology and equipment, includingdrive control systems and high-efficiencyfrequency conversion motors that ensuresmooth and efficient operation plus saveenergy and reduce emissions.

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Lin Shuming, head of ABB Pulp andPaper North Asia, said: “It indicatesthat, by integrating unique innovativetechnologies, ABB’s customized serv-ice model successfully passed the testof China’s high-end paper projects.”

Optimal utilization of advancedtechnologyDuring a recent interview, ChenLinfeng, Sales Director of ABB Pulpand Paper China, said that ABB tai-lored the drive control system PMC800installed on Huatai’s PM8 according tocustomer requirements and specificapplication needs. The drive system onHuatai’s PM8 and coating machine isby far one of the most complicateddrive systems used today. The systemincludes 223 drive sections, 241 ACfrequency conversion motors and 10AC800M controllers ,as well as addi-tional control equipment. It providesAC drive and control for specific partsof the production line, including thepaper machine, rewinder, off-machinecoater, super calender and winder.

Production lines of this type arecommissioned at the average rate ofone every three years. The difficulty lies in the control of the off-machinecoater, particularly the flying splicecontrol. While the off-machine coateroperates at a designated speed, thiscontrol method is applied so thatonline roll-changing can proceed without shutdowns.

Meeting this challenge requires driveequipment that has control precisiondown to a millisecond level (1-10 ms),along with extensive cooperation andexperience between the drive supplierand equipment supplier.

At Huatai, there are numerous ten-sion control points on the productionline. When the speed on the produc-tion line varies, it is very difficult to precisely control the tension. The maximum speed of PM8’s coater is2,100 meter/min, which is the extremespeed of the machine and motor. ButABB’s leading drive control technologyensures the production line will operatesmoothly and continuously.

To minimize energy consumption,ABB installed customized motors withoptimization design on various parts of Huatai’s production line, includingthe winder, rewinder, super calenderand coater. This kind of motor is muchsmaller and lighter than standardmotors. Its design is optimized accord-ing to a piece of equipment’s specificload requirements, so that control andefficiency are optimized.

The current installed power of papermachines in China’s paper industry isdramatically higher than it was in thepast. This renders the 400V motor,which was previously prevalent, unableto meet new industrial demands. As aresult, ABB promotes its 690V gradelow voltage motor – the ABB M3BP isthe most high-efficiency AC motor inthe industry.

“It has higher voltage than the 400Vmotor, so there is less heat loss due tosmaller current, contributing to energy-saving,” said Linfeng. The efficiency ofABB’s standard motor is 3.8 percenthigher than that of a normal motor. On Huatai’s PM8 production line withtotal installed power estimated to be390,000 kW, this motor can annually

save nearly USD 7.6 million in electrici-ty costs and almost 3,700 tons of coal.

Problem-solving with the world’sbest combined service resources In terms of technology, PM8 is themost complex paper machine in China– or even the world. So ABB selectedits best global service team to ensurethe project’s smooth implementation.ABB Finland sent its principal engi-neers to meticulously oversee the software and equipment design work,key technology, project progress, etc.They worked with a Chinese team consisting of highly-skilled engineerswho are experts in different aspects of the automation. These Chinese specialists could fully utilize local service and equipment manufacturingsystems to provide Huatai with themost efficient and high-quality servicepossible.

Said Linfeng: “Engineers from ABBFinland and China cooperated by contributing their strengths and advan-tages, which overcame many technicaldifficulties, accomplished the projectmeeting its schedule, quality and quantity requirements, and achievedcustomer satisfaction.”

Linfeng added: “Currently, the mostchallenging and state-of-the-art paperequipment and projects in the worldare in China. ABB has many customerssimilar to Huatai, such as, Sun Paper,Lee Man Paper, APP, HengAn, NineDragons Paper and Shan Ying Paper.ABB finds the best cooperation pointswith these customers, and establisheslong-term partnerships. This is due tothe tailor-made service, which providesa very cost-competitive plan.”

Shuming said: “The paper industry is a high energy consumption industry.ABB’s automation technology couldsignificantly help customers improveenergy efficiency, and realize greenenvironmental production and sustain-able development. Shandong HuataiCorporation is a world-leading paperenterprise. The long-lasting coopera-tion between ABB and Huatai demon-strates the mutual trust between the two partners, raising excellentcooperation model and energy-savingexample for the industry.”


Major papermaking orders

Major papermakingordersAustraliaABB won an order for a sensorupgrade at Australia Paper.

AustriaSCA Graphic Laakirchen AG placedan order for an Optipak sensor.

CanadaHowe Sound upgraded to a NetworkPlatform NP1200, purchased aSteamPlus profiler and a quality controlAutomation Sentinel upgrade.

ChinaABB won an order at Chongqing WellMind for a Network Platform NP700.

HengAn purchased two newNetwork Platform NP1200s, DCS, QCS and Drives.

UPM Changshu ordered a sensorand headpackage upgrade.

ABB won a significant order atShougang (Chenming) Meilun for four Network Platform NP1200s, twoNetwork Platform NP1200s for theirsuper calenders, along with a NetworkPlatform NP1200 for TM1.

EgyptEl Obour placed an order for aNetwork Platform NP1200. They alsopurchased a Network Platform NP700.

IndiaMurali Industries purchased NetworkPlatform NP700s and sensors.

IndonesiaPT TEL ordered a Network PlatformNP1200 and sensors for their PD1.

ABB secured an order for a NetworkPlatform NP700 from Pindo DeliPerawang.

IKPP ordered a Network PlatformNP700 and sensors.

Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk purchase a Network Platform NP700.

ItalyMC Tissue purchased a NetworkPlatform NP700.

ABB won an order for an Air-WaterxP profiler at Cartiera Ciacci.

JapanRengo Yashio ordered a NetworkPlatform NP1200.

ABB won an order at Hokuetsu-Kishu Ichikawa for Network PlatformNP1200 for PM4.

KoreaABB won an order at Moorim Paper toupgrade their sensors on PM2.

Hansol JangHang upgraded theircontrol system to a new System 800xAwith Network Platform NP1200s plus aCoat Weight xP Profiler.

MalaysiaGS Paper & Packaging ordered anNetwork Platform NP1200 upgrade.

Jeonju Paper purchased a NetworkPlatform NP1200 upgrade.

NetherlandsABB won an order from Solidpack fora Network Platform NP1200 for KM1.

PakistanCentury Paper ordered a WebInspection System plus Ink Jet ColorMarker for PM7.

PhilippinesABB secured an order at DiamondPaper for a Network Platform NP700.

RomaniaVrancart ordered a Quality ControlQCS800xA with a Network PlatformNP700 and Air-Water xP profiler.

SingaporeSchweitzer – Mauduit InternationalInc., ordered automation and electrifi-cation systems for its Batangas milland a Quality Control QCS800xA withNetwork Platform NP700.

Asia Pulp and Paper placed anorder for a DCS, a QCS with twoNetwork Platform NP1200s, CD Weightinterface and PMC800 AC Drives.

SlovakiaSHP Slavosovce a.s. added colormeasurement and control to an existingsystem.

SwedenABB won an order at Korsnäs AB inGävle to replace the automation andcontrol systems on RM5, install newconverters and drives for the wet end

of PM5 and a new drive system onPM2.

Hallstavik ordered an Optical Calipersensor for their PM12.

Vida Paper purchased a newQCS800xA system with a NetworkPlatform NP1200, Network PlatformRNP1200 and an Induction xP profiler.

ABB won an order at Stora EnsoHylte that includes a Network PlatformNP1200, Slice xP, Steamplus xP,Induction xP and Air-Water xP profilers.

UKABB secured an order to deliver thepaper machine and winder sectionaldrive systems for SaicaContainerboard’s new PM11.

ABB won an order to provideautomation, quality control and production management software to Arjowiggins Creative Papers’Stoneywood Mill. The delivery includesa System 800xA for boiler house control and a new QCS800xA alongwith cpmPlus, Smart Client.

USANew Page Luke ordered a Dilution xPprofiler plus LV Control.

ABB won an order at DomtarHawesville Kentucky, for a new WebInspection System.

Georgia Pacific Gypsum purchaseda Network Platform NP700 for theirgypsum wall board paper line.

Domtar Port Huron ordered a sensor upgrade including a SteamPlusxP profiler.

Twin Rivers ordered a NetworkPlatform NP1200 plus a Slice xP profiler. Twin Rivers also ordered aSteamPlus xP profiler for their PM7.

ABB won an order at EvergreenPackaging Pine Bluff for a SteamPlusxP profiler.

Packaging Corp of America pur-chased Automation Sentinel as part ofmajor QCS upgrade.

ABB was awarded with an orderfrom Hollingsworth & Vose for aNetwork Platform NP700.

ABB achieved a win at ClearwaterPaper for a new sensor.

ABB won an order at GeorgiaPacific Port Hudson for a NetworkPlatform NP1200 plus a NetworkPlatform RNP1200.


Notes of interest

ABB’s Shih-ChinChen named TAPPIFellow for 2011Shih-Chin Chen has been named aTAPPI Fellow for 2011. Fellow is anhonorary title bestowed upon a verysmall percentage of TAPPI’s member-ship. It is given to individuals who have made extraordinary technical orservice contributions to the industryand/or the Association.

“Dr. Chen’s contributions to TAPPIand its Process Control Division havebeen most noteworthy over the years,”said Larry N. Montague, president and CEO of TAPPI.

He is a Corporate ExecutiveEngineer with ABB Pulp and PaperDivision. He holds 10 patents and haspublished more than 40 technicalpapers. Dr. Chen has pioneerednumerous initiatives to improve controlof paper machines. His recent paperon “VAP and new indices for quantify-ing sheet quality and trouble shooting”won the 2009 Jasper Mardon Award.

Dr. Chen has served in a number ofoffices within TAPPI, includingPaperCon Steering Committee,PaperCon Track Manager, PCE&IDivision Technical Program Chair, PCDivision Vice Chair and PC DivisionChair. He developed a plan for theProcess Control Division focusing onmember involvement, contributionsfrom the Common Interest Groups and networking with local chapters and student sections.

One of the year’s most exciting eventsin Shanghai was the gala grand open-ing of ABB’s new QCS and WIS facto-ry, held on November 17 and 18,2010. One hundred people, includingABB business partners, the media,local government representatives andcustomers, took part in the launch cer-emonies.

Roger Bailey, Pulp and PaperBusiness Unit Manager, and TobiasBecker, Process Automation ManagerChina, kicked off a celebratory dinnerby welcoming participants.

The next day, Bailey, Becker andgovernment officials gave openingspeeches that launched the new facto-ry. A highpoint in the festivities camewhen the management team and gov-ernment dignitaries cut the ribbon and

QCS/WIS factory grand opening – fun forall who attended

declared the facility officially open forbusiness.

Many toured the new factory, whichwas already in operation. Participantscould see the QCS and WIS technolo-gy and how the products are actuallymade.

The spectacular success of the fac-tory opening also drew wide mediacoverage. Many pulp and paper indus-try magazines, including Tissue World,Middle East Tissue, Paper Asia, Pulpand Paper International (PPI) and Pulpand Paper World (PPW), sent their edi-tors to cover it.

Our new Shanghai factory demon-strates ABB’s long-term commitmentto the worldwide pulp and paperindustry – and is compelling proof ofthe “Made by ABB” concept.

The gala welcoming dinner for guests and dignitaries.

The ancient Chinese art of papermakingdemonstration.

The much anticipated factory tour of the ultra-modern facility.

The ribbon cutting ceremony that made the newfacility “officially’ open for business.

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