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Royal touch to engineering facilities expansion
Sulzer’s new, purpose-built Service Centre in Middlesbrough has been officially opened by Her
Royal HighnessThe Princess Royal, who was given a tour of the new facility by Arthur Grant,
the service centre manager.The new £ 4,5 M Service Centre is part of the national engineering
and repair facilities that enable Sulzer to offer a true 24/7 service for engineering solutions
including the repair of large rotating machines across the UK.
The event was well attended by senior Sulzer staff, customers and local dignitaries who
have welcomed the latest investment in the city which forms part of the huge redevelopment
of Middlehaven, the historic industrial heart of Middlesbrough. Sulzer relocating to the new
premises has also made way for the regeneration scheme, which covers an area of approxi-
mately 57 hectares (140 acres).
Sulzer has demonstrated its commitment to the North East by expanding the size of the
available facilities by over 25 %, which has enabled the company to create a newmetal spraying
facility and a comprehensive load testing area for both low voltage and high voltage motors
and generators.
Enquiries: Email
Current Automation
expands
Current Automation has opened a
new branch in Mbombela (Nelspruit).
The new premises are: Units 6 and
7, Crystal Tide Street, Riverside Park.
. 013 004 0012.
New in South
African renewables
market
NRG Energy, provider of diverse con-
ventional, distributed and renewable
energy solutions in the United States,
through its subsidiary NRG Renew,
has entered the South African mar-
ket - led by South African local Grant
Pattison, a former chief executive
officer of Walmart-owned Massmart
Holdings. NRG Energy is a Fortune 250
company and the largest independent
power producer (IPP) in the U.S., with
an installed base of more than 52 gi-
gawatts (GW) of power, with 4.2 GW
from renewable sources, and annual
revenues of $ 11 billion.The long-term
aim of NRG and NRG Renew is to
work with business customers – both
international and local – to deliver
world-class distributed andmicro-grid
power solutions for their businesses.
Enquiries: Email
More business in
Saudi Arabia for
Yokogawa
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has
stated that its subsidiary, Yokogawa
Saudi Arabia, has received orders to
deliver distributed control systems
(DCS) for the PP13 and PP14 combined
cycle power plants that the Saudi
Electricity Company (SEC) is building
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital city.
The PP13 and PP14 plants will each
have a combined net electric output
of 1 980 MW. Power blocks 1 and 2 of
the PP13 plant are scheduled to begin
operating in May and October of 2016,
respectively, while the two power
blocks at PP14are scheduled to start in
November 2016 and April 2017.
Enquiries: Email
Sulzer’s new, purpose-built Service Centre in Middlesbrough has been officially opened by Her
Royal Highness The Princess Royal.
Large power plant automation order
ABB has won an order worth over $ 160 M from Eskom to supply control systems, software
and instrumentation for the 4 800 MW Kusile coal-fired power station under construction near
Witbank. Kusile will be the fourth largest coal-fired power station in the world and will help
boost SouthAfrica’s capacity. It is among a new generation of high-pressure, high-temperature
power installations, also known as supercritical, whose efficiency surpasses that of conventional
coal-fired power plants, producing lower emissions and reducing fuel costs. Kusile will be the
first in Africa to use wet flue gas desulphurisation technology in all its plant boilers. Eskom,
which generates more than 90 % of its electricity from coal-fired power stations, is installing
state-of-the-art clean coal technology in one
of its largest plants to help ensure a long
term, reliable source of baseload electricity
for the region. ABB is supplying a complete
control and instrumentation solution for the
entire plant, including boiler protection and
plant simulator, engineering, installation,
commissioning, optimisation and training.
Enquiries: Email
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