Yokogawa Indonesia Receives DCS and SIS Orders from Indonesia’s CAP Group

Tokyo, Japan - May 26, 2011

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary, PT. Yokogawa Indonesia, has received an order from PT. Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk. (CAP) to replace the legacy distributed control system (DCS) and safety instrumented system (SIS) at the company's ethylene and polyethylene plant in Cilegon, which is in western Java's Banten Province.

This CAP facility is Indonesia's premier petrochemical plant, incorporating world class, state-of-the-art technology and supporting facilities. The plant's naphtha cracker produces high quality ethylene, propylene, crude C4, and pyrolysis gasoline (Py-gas)*1 for the Indonesian as well as regional export markets.

Yokogawa Indonesia has also received an order from the CAP subsidiary PT Styrindo Mono Indonesia (SMI) to replace the legacy DCS at the company's styrene monomer plant, which is about 40 km from the CAP plant and has an annual output of 340,000 MT.

For these projects, Yokogawa Indonesia will provide the latest CENTUM® VP DCS and ProSafe-RS SIS along with engineering, installation, commissioning, and engineering and operator training. These projects are expected to take 10 months from start to finish.

Key factors in the CAP Group's selection of Yokogawa for these replacement projects were the high reliability and global track record of Yokogawa's CENTUM VP and ProSafe-RS platforms, the close project support made possible by global cooperation between Yokogawa Indonesia and Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte. Ltd., which is responsible for the Yokogawa Group's operations in Asia, and its global maintenance and service network.

Ichsan Gafar, a director at Yokogawa Indonesia, says, "I think that the customer assessed and scored Yokogawa as the best long-term partner of the CAP Group, considering the strength of our products in terms of reliability and expandability, the operability of an integrated DCS and SIS solution under the Yokogawa brand, and our local engineering, project execution, and after-sales support capabilities. Through our implementation of these DCS and SIS projects for CAP and SMI, we will strengthen our relationship with the CAP Group. We aim to win contracts for their other projects as well and to expand our share of the Indonesian industrial automation market."

*1 Crude C4 and Py-gas
Basic petrochemical products obtained from the distillation of crude oil. Crude C4 includes butane and butylene that have four carbon atoms per molecule.

About PT. Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk. (CAP)

CAP Group is the biggest integrated petrochemical company in Indonesia, producing ethylene (600,000 MTPA), propylene (320,000 MTPA) and polyethylene (350,000 MTPA) as well as styrene monomer (340,000 MTPA) and toluene (6,200 MTPA). CAP supplies ethylene (60%) to SMI as a raw material in the production of styrene monomer and toluene.

About PT. Yokogawa Indonesia

P.T. Yokogawa Indonesia was founded in 1994 in Jakarta. With paid-in-capital of US$2.3 million and 152 employees, the company operates as a general importer, wholesaler, and sole trade agent for process control systems, and provides engineering, repair, parts supply, and maintenance services.

 

About Yokogawa

Yokogawa's global network of 25 manufacturing facilities and 80 companies spans 54 countries. Since its founding in 1915, the US$3 billion company has been engaged in cutting-edge research and innovation, securing more than 7,200 patents and registrations, including the world's first digital sensors for flow and pressure measurement. Industrial automation and control, test and measurement, information systems and industry support are the core businesses of Yokogawa. For more information about Yokogawa, please visit our web site at www.yokogawa.com


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