Australian Alumina Refinery Awards Honeywell $10 Million Contract for Automation and Control.Business Editors PHOENIX & SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002 The Industry Solutions business of Honeywell (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HON) today announced that Comalco, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Rio Tinto, has selected it as the automation and control system supplier for its state-of-the-art Comalco Alumina Refinery (CAR) at Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. Honeywell will provide the Distributed Control System A distributed control system (DCS) refers to a control system usually of a manufacturing system, process or any kind of dynamic system, in which the controller elements are not central in location (like the brain) but are distributed throughout the system with each component (DCS (1) See also DSC. (2) Digital Cross-connect System) A network switching and grooming device used by telecom carriers. See digital cross-connect. ); Process Information System, including Hi-Spec's Uniformance(R) business highway integration; data, voice and video networks; field instrumentation; and the security systems, including the Honeywell Digital Video Manager(TM) CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television system. "This unique and complex project required experience and innovation - both of which Honeywell provides," said Trevor Peters, General Manager - Operations. "When fully operational, the solution will combine a high level of automation, to deliver high levels of safety and productivity and the least amount of process surge." "A number of factors contributed to the development of this project at Comalco," said Terry Sutter, President of Honeywell Industry Solutions. "Most importantly, our design team has been part of the conceptual design and feasibility study efforts for the project over the past five years. Our people were integrated into the Bechtel Australia (Engineering, Procurement and Construction  The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved. Contractor for the Comalco Alumina Refinery) Design Team to develop a solution which was unique to this site and Comalco's vision of 21st Century alumina refinery." The initial phase of the Refinery will have a design capacity of 1.4 million tonnes per annum (MTPA MTPA Million Tons Per Annum MTPA Metric Tons Per Annum MTPA Manheim Township Performing Arts (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) MTPA Methoxy Trifluoromethyl Phenyl acetic Acid ) of alumina, expandable to 4.0 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) dependent on market requirements. The construction and commissioning of the Refinery will be completed in three years with the first product shipped in early 2005. The Refinery production facilities include: a steam generation plant; a bauxite residue storage area; a port facility; materials handling and transportation area; and associated stockpile areas. Industry Solutions, a global business in the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions group (ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ), provides automation and business solutions that help customers achieve improved productivity, compliance, safety, and decision-making. ACS is a US$8 billion global leader in providing product and service solutions to create efficient, safe, and comfortable environments and help business and industry improve productivity and profitability. It comprises four businesses: Industry Solutions; Service; Security and Fire; and Control Products. ACS offers heating, ventilation, humidification Humidification The process of increasing the water-vapor content (humidity) of a gas. This process and its reverse operation, dehumidification, are important steps in air conditioning for human comfort and in many industrial operations. and air-conditioning equipment controls, security and fire alarm systems, home automation systems, energy-efficient lighting controls, and building management systems and services. It also provides automation systems, advanced software solutions, and value-added services used in a variety of industries. ACS is also a global supplier of sensors, switches, and control products for industrial applications. For more information about Industry Solutions, access http://www.iac.honeywell.com Honeywell is a US$24-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; specialty chemicals; fibers; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials. Honeywell employs approximately 115,000 people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average Dow Jones Industrial Average The best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at www.honeywell.com. This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about future business operations, financial performance and market conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in business forecasts as further described in our filings under the Securities Exchange Act. Uniformance(R) is a registered trademark |
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