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Honeywell is supplying its Experion process, machine, and drives (PMD), DaVinci quality control system, and ProFlow and AquaTrol cross-direction control system to China’s Nine Dragons Paper Ltd. The Chinese company is expanding operations to increase capacity from 5.35 million to 10.15 million tons per year by 2009. The Honeywell products will control paper machines in the newest mill at Chongqing, and will also provide new machines at existing mills in Dongguan and Taicang. Nine Dragons produces high-quality packaging paperboard products that include linerboard used in making corrugated cartons.

Experion unifies operations by integrating subsystems throughout a plant to improve production quality, and will keep processes running at optimum levels. It can control such systems as paper production lines from a single operator station includes more than 27,000 input/output points across all three mills. Ten DaVinci 4000 scanners will precisely measure paper quality using a suite of online sensors. The system provides data, process information, historical trending, and statistical analysis.

According to Andrew Hird, Asia-Pacific director for pulp and paper, Honeywell Process Solutions, “It is not enough to simply make more of a product—manufacturers must ensure quality doesn’t fall as production volume rises.”