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| ABB wins order in Peru Swiss engineering group ABB has won a $50 million order from Minera Chinalco Peru S.A. to supply electrification and automation systems for a new copper mine and concentrator plant. The processing plant at Toromocho will be located at an altitude of 4,500 meters in central Peru, in the Morococha mining district 140 kilometers east of Lima, the country's capital. The concentrator will produce approximately 1 million tons of copper concentrate annually, as well as some silver and molybdenum trioxide. ABB will engineer and supply the 23 kV (kilovolt) main switchgear, unit substations and distribution transformers, prefabricated electrical rooms containing medium- and low-voltage switchgear, variable-speed drives and motor control centers, as well as a plant-wide process automation system using ABB's Extended Automation System 800xA. In 2009, ABB won a separate order from Minera Chinalco to supply the Toromocho mine with three gearless mill-drive systems to grind the mineral ore into smaller pieces prior to further processing. They will be the world's largest and highest-altitude gearless mill-drive systems. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |