TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it has received orders from Jiangsu Oji Paper Co., Ltd, a Chinese joint venture company of Oji Paper Co., Ltd., for ozone systems to be used in facilities producing kraft pulp, a paper material made of wooden chips that are treated in heat with chemicals. The orders, worth approximately one billion yen in total, comprise ozone generators and their construction works, which will be used to bleach kraft pulps. Deliveries will begin from February 2012, and the operation of the system will start from 2013.
Oji Paper established Jiangsu Oji Paper Co., Ltd. in 2007 in Nantong, located in southern China, to produce high-quality paper and pulp and support its expanding business in East Asia. Jiangsu Oji Paper began shipments of high-quality paper in January 2011, and is constructing its massive pulp production facilities with an annual production capacity of 0.7 million tons that will begin operations in 2013.
The ozone systems will be used to bleach kraft pulp, lessening environmental pollution by eliminating harmful chlorine compounds contained in waste water resulting from the production process. Oji Paper plans the production capacity of ozone at 600 kg every hour, one of the largest ozone production volumes in East Asia.
About Mitsubishi Electric's Electric Ozone
System Business
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
(TOKYO:6503) started its domestic ozone systems business in 1968,
applying the discharging techniques, and has been providing more than
1,600 units of ozone generators for over 40 years, mainly in the
domestic waterworks/sewerage market. With variety of products from low
to high capacity, Mitsubishi Electric's ozone generators are lined up to
meet the various needs of customers.
Features of Mitsubishi Electric's Ozone System:
- Compact system due to small diameter glass dielectric
- Improved ozone generating capacity per one electrode by Mitsubishi Electric's original technology
- Low power/oxygen consumption due to increased power density created by high precision manufacturing techniques.
About Mitsubishi Electric
With
over 90 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products
to both corporate clients and general consumers all over the world,
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognized world
leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and
electronic equipment used in information processing and communications,
space development and satellite communications, consumer electronics,
industrial technology, energy, transportation and building equipment.
The company recorded consolidated group sales of 3,353.2 billion yen
(US$ 36.1 billion*) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. For more
information visit: http://www.MitsubishiElectric.com
*At an exchange rate of 93 yen to the US dollar, the rate given by the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market on March 31, 2010
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