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Broad Homes – diversified products for development of urban and rural construction

HONG KONG. The year 2022 is an important year to enter into the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country and march towards the second hundred-year goal, and it is remarkable how the construction industry can take a new “road to catch up”. As the promoter and practitioner of China’s construction industrialisation, Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group Co., Ltd. makes urban and rural spaces more efficient, green, environmental friendly and sustainable with its constantly upgraded and improved multi-product matrix and technology system. Broad Homes BOX Modul Guesthouse in Baimian Mountain Tourist Attraction. During this year’s National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress , green and low-carbon are amongst the most discussed topics. The government work report put forward a number of specific tasks to achieve dual carbon goals. Industrialisation of construction is a necessary path for the construction industry to achieve green transformation and high-quality development, and a key grasp to win the future. Broad Homes has insisted on ecological priority and green low-carbon development, continuously increased R&D of green low-carbon buildings by accumulating product and technology advantages, customised and differentiated products and established a diversified product portfolio. Products to highlight:Broad Homes’ fully prefabricated modular building product – BOX Modul – which was quickly adopted for use by sectors such as cultural tourism, public buildings, office space and medical stations. Since its launch in July 2021, projects were completed and delivered to over 16 provinces in China. High-quality apartments for employee housing, which will contribute to the construction of guaranteed rental housing during the 14th Five-Year Plan period and are expected to solve the housing issues of new citizens and young people. Intelligent parking complexes, which focus on solving the immediate needs of the public and relieving urban traffic pressure, while integrating new commercial needs. Broad Home’s […]

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ABB to automate bioplastics plant in Thailand to meet demand for sustainable materials

ABB has been awarded a major contract by NatureWorks, the world’s leading manufacturer of polylactic acid (PLA), a low-carbon bioplastic made from renewable agricultural resources, to automate their new, greenfield plant in Thailand, converting sugar cane to the polylactic acid (PLA) biopolymer, Ingeo. The new plant in Thailand, will ferment and distill plant-based sugars – in a process similar to making beer or wine – converting the sugars first to lactic acid, then lactide and then polymerise them into Ingeo. In the new site, these three separate production processes will be fully integrated, resulting in significant improvements in energy and production efficiency. In addition, the integration of the fermentation phase will secure the supply of lactic acid. The Thailand facility will use sugarcane as feedstock and is set to produce 75,000 tons of sustainable plastic per year when fully operational. The anticipated projected startup for this greenfield facility is in the second half of 2024. ABB’s scope of work is a two-part order including a FEED (front end engineering design) study followed by detailed automation project execution, with ABB acting as the Main Automation Contractor. ABB will deliver the hardware, software, control room design solutions, engineering, and site support to fully develop NatureWorks’ greenfield system. ABB’s market leading distributed control system Ability System 800xA will maximise plant efficiency and reliability through automation. Leveraging this technology, ABB will integrate inputs from all key systems into one single user-friendly overview. As a result, operators will be able to utilise data insights from all areas of the plant, delivered in real time, to drive efficiency, reduce risk and ensure production optimisation. The project will apply State Based Controls (SBC), enabling operators to take fewer interactions to start up a unit and reduce risk by having access to the right information at the right […]

5G-Ready embedded computing systems with 11th Gen Intel Core processors

IBASE Technology Inc. has launched the ASB200-953 compact box PC housing IBASE’s IB953 3.5-inch SBC powered by 11th Gen Intel® Core i7-1185G7E, i5-1145G7E and i3-1115G4E processors (formerly Tiger Lake) with a 15W TDP threshold. Aimed at smart applications in warehouse logistics management, factory automation and the automotive industry, the fanless ASB200-953 features high performance with low power consumption. With a black chassis color, it supports up to 64GB in two SO-DIMM slots and 12V~24V wide-range DC power input. Useful I/O ports on the front side include 3x USB 3.1, 1x USB 2.0, 2x DisplayPort, 1x COM, and 2x GbE ports. The rear panel is equipped with digital I/O, power button, HDD LED, DC-in terminal block and two antenna holes that can be used with the optional WiFi accessory kit. Measuring 180x150x72mm (WxDxH), the ASB200-953 comes with anti-scalding net design and flexible expansion support with high-speed 5G connectivity and other M.2 modules as well as dual storage for a 2280 NVMe SSD and a 2.5-inch HDD. The ASB210-953 variant comes with fan support and up to 28W TDP. Both have Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0) security and are compatible with Windows 11 and Windows Embedded Standard 8 operating systems. Features: ASB200-953: Fanless system with IBASE IB953 3.5” SBC (TDP 15W) ASB210-953: Slim System with IBASE IB953 3.5” SBC (TDP up to 28W) Onboard 11th Gen Intel® Core™ U-Series Processor Supports 3x M.2 sockets (B-Key/E-Key and M-Key) 12V (-10%) ~ 24V (+10%) DC-in power input 2x DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM, Max. 64GB 3x USB 3.1, 1x USB 2.0, 2x Intel® GbE, 1x COM External GPIO, 2x DisplayPort, TPM (2.0) Optional VESA mount bracket IBASE Technology specialises in the design and manufacture of robust industrial PC products, delivering high-quality and excellent service since its establishment in 2000. networking, and medical sectors.

Rockwell Automation announces new Vietnam country manager

Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, has appointed Pham Kieu Trinh as Country Manager for Vietnam effective immediately. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Trinh will be responsible for the company’s business operations and direct sales in the country. She reports to Marcelo Tarkieltaub, Rockwell Automation Regional Director for Southeast Asia. Trinh has over 17 years of experience with global enterprises in diverse technology and manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining Rockwell Automation, she was Country Manager for Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand for a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry-specific solutions, driving their automatic identification and data capture solutions. In that role, Trinh also strengthened the company’s government relations, strategic business planning and brand awareness. “I am delighted to join Rockwell Automation as the Country Manager for Vietnam and look forward to developing our business here. I aim to leverage my knowledge to build our capabilities and improve sales across Vietnam by developing our distributor and partner ecosystems, serving the market’s growing automation demand adequately with highly relevant products and services,” said Trinh. “By 2025, we aim to achieve double digit growth rates and increase our market share by twofold. We also plan to expand our Vietnam team by 50% by the end of this year,” she added. Present in the country since 2007, Rockwell Automation aims to boost its sales performance by 40% in Southern Vietnam and by 30% in Northern Vietnam this year, with the long-term goal to increase its market share by twofold by 2025. This is in line with plans to boost its presence across Southeast Asia, tapping into the region’s growing industrial automation and process control market, which is expected to reach US$4.97 billion by 2025[2]. Rockwell Automation has offices in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi, […]

Seamless connectivity between manufacturing plants

Epsilon Telecommunications (Epsilon), a global connectivity provider, has been selected by Belton Technology Group, a full turnkey contract manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong, to completely re-architect its wide-area network (WAN). Epsilon is replacing Belton Technology’s legacy Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) with a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), to fully transform its connectivity between manufacturing plants and its offices across mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Thailand. Traditional MPLS is dependent on Points of Presence (PoP) in a specific country. Epsilon’s SD-WAN solution combats the inflexible nature of MPLS WAN and enables a cost effective, highly available and flexible data communication network to keep up with Belton Technology’s surging business growth and customer demands. “Our SD-WAN solution unleashes the full potential of on-demand connectivity. It enables Belton Technology to support new ICT innovations with a WAN that is elastic and built to scale as the business grows,” said Warren Aw, Managing Director, Asia Pacific at Epsilon. “It’s been great to work together with Belton Technology to evolve its legacy WAN and provide a cost-effective, secure and high-performance network that meets its changing business needs.” Epsilon’s SD-WAN solution provides a modern WAN architecture that can drive maximum value from cloud and digital investments. It enables flexible interconnection across the entire network and full control over routing and security services, with support for cloud-based applications and services. “We chose Epsilon because its SD-WAN solution met our needs from the start. We needed to expand into new locations seamlessly while maintaining high performance connectivity between our manufacturing plants and offices in mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the Philippines,” said Alice Lai, Senior IT Manager at Belton Technology Group. “We’re excited to see where our relationship with Epsilon will go as we continue to grow our footprint. The team recognised how we could improve […]

Beckhoff in Asia

Beckhoff Automation is widely represented across Asia with offices in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, South Korea, and amongst other places, Japan. Founded in 1980, by Hans Beckoff as a one-man operation, Beckhoff implements open automation systems using proven PC-based control technology. The primary areas their product range covers include industrial PCs, I/O and fieldbus components, drive technology, automation software as well as control cabinet-free automation. Products that can be used as separate components or integrated into a complete and mutually compatible control system are available for all sectors. The company’s new automation technology stands for universal and industry-independent control and automation solutions that are used worldwide in a large variety of different applications, ranging from CNC-controlled machine tools to intelligent building control. Development of innovative products and solutions based on PC-based control technology is key to the company’s continued success. The company has recognised many standards in automation technology that are taken for granted and introduced to the market as innovations. Beckhoff’s philosophy of PC-based control as well as the invention of the Lightbus system and TwinCAT automation software are milestones in automation technology and have proven themselves as powerful alternatives to traditional control technology. EtherCAT, the real-time Ethernet solution, provides a powerful and future-oriented technology for a new generation of control concepts. Beckhoff is headquartered in Verl, Germany and there are 4,500 employees worldwide and 1,900 engineers. The company has 39 representative offices worldwide from an overall total of 75 representatives worldwide. The corporate headquarters of Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG in Verl, Germany, is the site of the central departments such as development, production, administration, sales, marketing, support and service.

Superior lifting safety for South African mining powerhouse

Verton has announced that Welgro has become their first distributor in South Africa. The partnership means that Welgro’s clients will be able to safely improve their productivity and bottom line by using the world’s first remote-controlled load-management system. Welgro was founded in 1986 with the purpose of providing impeccable quality products alongside superior service delivery to the mining, engineering, industrial and agricultural sectors. They specialise in supporting large Tier 1 companies, and partner with reputable national and international companies to offer comprehensive tooling and lifting equipment to their clients. Verton is proud to join this list of quality companies as it further cements them as the world’s leading experts in safe lifting technology. Verton’s load orientation products have transformed expectations of what’s possible in lifting safety and productivity. Their lifting beams and modular SpinPod technology use gyroscopes and sophisticated control systems that orientate suspended loads remotely without the need for human-held taglines. The technology removes personnel near and under loads and keeps them away from the drop zone. Welgro Director, Kyle Handley, says that partnering with Verton will fundamentally change how their customers plan their lifting operations. “One of Welgro’s primary goals is to assist our customers to make their operations safer and more efficient. This partnership is driven by these mutual goals shared by Verton and Welgro, he said. “It comes at a time where I believe the desire around improvements to workforce safety on site is on a steep rise and a major investment area for companies. Alongside Verton and The Crosby Group, we are looking forward to providing our customers with smart technology solutions they can trust to improve safety.” Chief Executive Officer of Verton, Tim Ekert, said, “The impact our product range will be able to have across Welgro’s wide-reaching clientele is exciting. “We want to […]

Siemens extends mechanical performance with Simcenter 3D

Siemens’ Simcenter 3D software, part of Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services, enables engineers to tackle the complexity of product development and innovation with advanced simulation. Among the new capabilities, Simcenter 3D offers increased support for turbomachinery modeling, a dedicated drop test application for handheld devices, tightly integrated topology optimisation with the NX Design environment, and a new acoustic solution method that is up to 10 times faster than standard methods. Simcenter 3D brings together combined expertise and experience across a wide range of industry sectors, capabilities and physics. Customers are finding bold new ways to make use of complex physics simulation to drive innovation across industries. Siemens’ Simcenter 3D 2022.1 release focuses on helping engineers overcome challenges in four key areas: Model the complexity: The ability to model and understand complex physical phenomena is at the forefront of this Simcenter 3D release. Simcenter 3D’s industry-leading solution for the turbomachinery industry has been extended with additional thermal multiphysics, rotordynamics and thermal fatigue capabilities to more accurately capture the complex physics happening within these machines. A new dedicated set of tools to simulate spiral bevel gears, as often found in automotive differentials, enables accurate, system-level NVH analysis on these mechanisms to reduce gear whine. Additionally, a new dedicated application simplifies and streamlines the drop-test simulation process for electronic and other handheld devices for engineers who are not simulation experts. Explore the possibilities: Acoustics auralisation capabilities allow engineers to not only simulate but also listen to the acoustics/sound within the context of the end-user’s experience. Engineers can now mix all contributing sounds and listen to the combined acoustics results to answer questions such as “What will a loudspeaker sound like when you put it in a car and combine it with background noise from the engine, HVAC, wind and road?” In […]

Huge market potentials for prefabricated buildings

Recently, frequent implementation of affordable housing support policies has created huge market potentials for prefabricated and green buildings. Market analysis pointed out that PC component manufacturers in the prefabricated construction supply chain will be key beneficiaries from these new policies. As the most preferred brand in the prefabricated construction industry for three consecutive years, Broad Homes (02163.HK) will likely benefit from the recent policy catalysts. To highlight, the Company operates in both to-B and to-C business under its dual mode business model, which gives the Company potential to grasp onto a larger market share in this industry uptrend. First and second tier cities are actively responding to affordable housing policies. According to market data, since the beginning of December 2021, the Prefabricated Building Index (931020) rose nearly 10%, driven by discussions during the Politburo meeting in December to further promote construction of affordable housing. Similar discussions also took place during the Central Economic Work Conference, indicating growing interest from high-level officials. In the past year, affordable housing support policies have been frequently issued. The Politburo meeting mentioned the promotion of affordable housing construction for the first time in April and again in December. In addition, in July, the Politburo discussed the need to accelerate rental housing development and implemented supporting policies surrounding land usage and taxation. During the Central Economic Work Conference in December, discussions surrounding the need to “accelerate the development of the long-term rental housing market, promote the construction of indemnificatory housing, support the commercial housing market and better meet reasonable housing needs of buyers” were highlighted. Huachuang Securities pointed out that both the Politburo meeting and the Central Economic Work Conference have prioritised affordable housing before commercial housing, reiterating high-level officials’ focus on affordable housing. In terms of specific development goals, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural […]

Recycling plant in Jakarta steps into the future of dairy and meat processing

The GWE wastewater recycling plant engineered to achieve compact high efficiency with proven processes. One of the world’s largest dairy companies is installing a high efficiency wastewater treatment and water reuse facility at its new dairy plant in Jakarta to achieve 99 per cent organic content removal to meet outstanding recycling and sustainability standards. The new facility of PT Frisian Flag – a subsidiary of the Royal FrieslandCampina multinational – is scheduled for startup in 2022 and is using proven state-of-the-art technologies to produce potable recycled water from the plant wastewater. The Global Water & Energy (GW&E) technologies employed include a COHRAL™ (Covered High Rate Anaerobic Lagoon) system of a type already proven in one of Australia’s largest meat processing facilities, at Oakey in Queensland, where it significantly improves water quality, reduces odour, while producing biogas to reduce fossil fuel demands and saving the company more than AUD $800,000 (approx. US $585,000) per year in natural gas. The Jakarta facility will not only achieve outstanding quality potable water outputs for recycling, but also the biogas generated there during treatment can later be used in the factory to decrease fossil fuel dependency. The plant is engineered to produce up to 6,000 Nm3 of biogas a day. The facility will also benefit from minimal waste disposal costs, thanks to application of the anaerobic process and sludge dewatering units. “The GWE technology employed here is a huge step into the future of sustainability and recycling for livestock industries and agribusiness producing waste with high organic content, says Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions. Mr Bambridge – whose company installed the GWE COHRAL plant at Oakey – says the technology being used in Indonesia is widely applicable to dairy and meat applications, including beef, lamb, pork and poultry, throughout major livestock […]

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