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A leading international supplier of high-performance minerals to the polymer and coatings markets wanted to increase production while avoiding costly capital investments. The company engaged Pavilion to deploy its Pavilion8®-based dryer control application to one processing line. In only 3 months, the company realized a production increase of more than 10 percent. The immediate success of the project prompted the company to expand the deployment of the Pavilion8 dryer control application to two

Houston-based Sterling Chemicals Holdings, Inc., via its operating subsidiaries, serves leading customers such as British Petroleum PLC and BASF to produce a wide array of high quality consumer goods and industrial products. Sterling adopted Pavilion8 to identify best practices and ensure optimal performance on their Ethyl Benzene (EB) process.

The Sasol Germany GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, is a leading supplier of surfactants, fatty alcohols, solvents and high purity alumina. Sasol’s production facility in Brunsbuettel, Germany manufactures 140 KT per year of fatty alcohols use for detergents, cleaners, cosmetics and approximately 45 KT per year of high-purity alumina used for catalysts, abrasives, coatings. Sasol implemented Pavilion’s online monitoring and prediction software, developing a mathematical process model

FLORIDA ROCK INDUSTRIES, INC. , whose processes began business in 1929, produces and sells portland and masonary cement and handles the import of cement and slag to be ground or blended and sold. In pursuit to provide the highest quality product, Florida Rock turned to Pavilion Technologies to help stabilize and optimize its finish mill production processes, improve product quality and increase yield—all while reducing energy and operating costs.

Faced with increased raw materials costs, the Unilever wanted to maximize the performance of its detergent powder manufacturing plant in New Zealand. The plant is home to a spray dryer that produces over 50,000 tonnes per year of six different concentrate and conventional detergent base powder products at a rate of 8 – 12 tonnes per hour.

CAPITOL AGGREGATES, LTD. asked Pavilion to help maximize their production potential and alleviate a production bottleneck. Pavilion solutions helped Capitol to increase production by more than 10% and improve product consistency by 30%.

Huntsman is the world’s largest privately held chemical company. The Huntsman companies manufacture more than thirty billion pounds of highly integrated products across numerous industries annually. Pavilion’s solutions allowed the company to optimize impact and random copolymer PP and homopolymer PP lines in order to increase quality and production rates.

BP MARL , the styrenics business unit of BP and the 3rd largest chemicals production unit in Germany, produces more than 350,000 metric tons of styrene per year. With Pavilion’s MPC solution the facility has increased production, reduced utility consumption and improved product quality.

Halliburton`s Landmark Group and Pavilion Technologies have teamed together to produce a real time simulation model of an oilfield, just as Pavilion has long made available for process plants. Landmark will embed Pavilion’s key modeling, control, and optimization technology engine into its DecisionSpace Production solution. The combined technologies will offer operators a dynamic integrated model of oilfield assets for identifying optimal courses of action based on accurate understanding of pr

FONTERRA CO-OPERATIVE LTD. , the world’s largest dairy ingredients company, used Pavilion solutions to realize its goal of improving product quality consistency, increasing throughput, and improving operating efficiency. The result at one production plant: a 60% reduction in product deviation and an increase of 200,000 liters per day in product yield.