Recently, DCS successfully won the bid for the RCLK8 project of IKPP plant in Indonesia of the global paper giant Golden Paper, breaking the monopoly of European and American control systems in IKPP plant. The winning bid reflects the leading position of Zhongcon technology in the global industrial automation field, and is another fruit of Zhongcon technology in expanding the international high-end market and strengthening the globalization layout.

In the bidding process of this project, Zhongkong Technology, with its leading product technology capabilities and global service capabilities, stood out from many international first-class manufacturers and won the high recognition of Sinar Paper, highlighting the company’s leading position in the field of technology and the advantages of global service capabilities.

Sinar Mas Group is a well-known multinational enterprise and one of the largest conglomerates in Indonesia, with annual revenues and assets in excess of tens of billions of dollars. As the paper sector leader of the Sinar Mas Group, Sinar Mas Paper has products and businesses worldwide, covering forest, pulp, industrial paper, cultural paper, household paper and various paper products. In China, Sinar Mas Group has more than 20 wholly-owned or controlling pulp and paper enterprises and nearly 20 forestry companies, its brands include “Weijie Ya”, “Breeze” and “Zhenzhen”, of which “breeze” is one of the three national brands.

The winning bid for the PT.Indah Kiat Pulp&Paper Tbk (IKPP) plant is one of the oldest and currently the largest pulp and paper plant owned by Sinar Mas Paper. Located in Indonesia, the plant includes a chemical pulp production line, multiple paper machines, chemical and water treatment sections with a huge demand for on-site instrumentation, valves, DCS control systems and analytical instrumentation. Since its establishment in 1976, the IKPP plant has gradually expanded its production scale, and its DCS control system has been dominated by European and American manufacturers. The winning bid has achieved zero breakthroughs in the application of the DCS control system in IKPP’s project, and has also laid a solid foundation for future cooperation in the renovation and new construction projects of other plants and plants of Golden Paper.

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All along, the golden paper industry has a very high industry standards and capability requirements for supplier selection, DCS is the golden paper industry focus on the product list, the technical standards and normative requirements are very high. As the top brand in China’s DCS market for 12 consecutive years, Zhongkong Technology’s strong technology research and development capabilities, excellent product quality and comprehensive service support capabilities have attracted the attention of Golden Paper industry. In March 2022, with advanced technology, stable and reliable product performance and high quality service, DCS was successfully selected into the A class supplier list of DCS control system of Golden Paper.

ECS-700 control system is a high-end industrial control system developed for the large-scale joint equipment of the whole factory. It has completed the FF host system certification, Achilles Level 2 international certification, information security and other guarantee level 3 evaluation, etc. All hardware G3 anti-corrosion, with high reliability; At the same time, the system software has also developed a special control module for the paper industry, which can provide leading overall solutions for customers in the industry.

Since 2020, the China Control Technology Indonesia team has closely followed the project of the plant and developed a strategy of “using the renovation project as a breakthrough to introduce the ECS-700 control system into the IKPP plant”. At the same time, in the early stage of the project, Zhongkeng technology through continuous research and communication, fully insight into customer needs, carefully prepared every technical clarification, with professional and patient technical support and highly cooperative on-site performance, won the golden paper industry’s high recognition.

This cooperation is the first project breakthrough with IKPP factory after the cooperation with Sinar Paper Pindo and Lontar factories, which is an important milestone in the cooperation between Sinar Paper and Sinar Paper in factory automation, and also injected new impetus to the rapid expansion of the international market of Sinar technology. With the growing demand for industrial automation technology in the global paper industry, the central control technology will usher in a broader space for development.

At present, Zhongkong Technology and Saudi Aramco (Aramco), Shell (Shell), ExxonMobil (ExxonMobil), British Petroleum (BP), BASF (BASF), Indonesia Sinar Mas and other enterprises have established good cooperative relations. In the future, C&T will continue to unswervingly accelerate the pace of globalization, continue to deepen cooperation with global customers with the “135 customer value innovation model”, provide more excellent digital intelligent products, technologies, solutions and services, and contribute to the transformation and upgrading of the global manufacturing industry.