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Emerson completes digital automation project at SECCO Petrochemical complex

09 Aug '05

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Process automation services provider Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson, announced the completion of a digital automation project at one of the largest integrated petrochemical complexes in China.

Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Company selected Emerson in 2003 as its digital automation partner for the $2.7 billion, 10-plant ethylene cracker complex.

SECCO centralized control room is command center for 10 plants.

Located in the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Shanghai, the complex will annually produce 900,000 tons of ethylene and more than 2 million tons of other related petrochemical products used in the plastics and synthetics industries. The ethylene cracker, SECCO's core plant in the complex, is the largest in China, as well as one of the largest in the world.

SECCO used the engineering and project management expertise of Emerson to integrate and coordinate multiple suppliers, enabling completion of the complex — from bare ground to a fully functional world-class facility — in just 27 months, three months ahead of schedule. Startup of the ethylene cracker plant in March 2005 took just 10 hours, 45 minutes, a world record, according to SECCO, for a project of this magnitude.

"The facilities and expert personnel at Pudong enabled us to partner effectively with SECCO, shaping a cutting edge solution," said Sweechee Lee, general manager, Emerson Process Management China. "They were also able to call upon Emerson experts among their more than 4,000 global engineering and technical service professionals, particularly from centers in India and Singapore."

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