Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from the Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) of the Macau Special Administrative Region in China for extensions of the Macau Light Rapid Transit(1) (MLRT) network using an Automated Guideway Transit(2) (AGT) system. The project will extend the MLRT Taipa Line opened in December 2019. MHI will make use of the accumulated knowledge of MHI Group, focusing its efforts on strengthening the system for safe and smooth transport in the Macau metropolitan area.
Macau LRT (Taipa Line)
This project comprises three new extensions from the Taipa Line (11 stations, 9.3km) currently operating on the Taipa island area of Macau, a district lined with new resort hotels. The Barra Extension (1 station expansion, 3.4km) will link the line to the Macau Peninsula opposite the island, the Seac Pai Van Extension (2 stations plus transfer station expansion, 1.3km) will provide access to Seac Pai Van, an area projected to grow in population and the planned site for construction of a large hospital, and the Hengqin Extension (2 station expansions, 2.2km) will run to Hengqin in China. The Seac Pai Van and Hengqin extensions will be executed under a three-company consortium with local general contractors Top Builders Macau Co. Ltd. and Hou Chun Construction and Engineering Company Limited. The project will contribute to further advancement of the regional economy and human resources development.
MHI will handle the entire system including the signals, communication systems, power supply facilities, track construction, platform doors, and fare charge machines (excluding construction of station buildings, civil engineering work, and rolling stock). The rolling stock planned for the lines are the AGT cars already delivered for the Taipa Line. For the project of the Taipa Line, MHI Group supplied 110 AGT cars, signal and train control equipment, power supply facilities, communication systems, tracks, maintenance facilities, platform doors, and fare charge machines. MHI also received an overhaul maintenance contract for the rolling stock for five years from the start of operations and will continue to support the stable operations of MLRT.
Going forward, MHI will utilize its extensive track record providing AGT systems in Japan, Singapore, South Korea, UAE (Dubai), and other areas throughout the world, along with the strength of its high-quality O&M (operations and maintenance) services to compete for the lead in the market for new transport system in Japan and overseas. MHI will make use of knowledge it has accumulated through experience implementing AGT systems to alleviate congestion in the Macau metropolitan area and will continue supplying safe and low-carbon transport solutions that will help support economic development and provide better convenience to people in countries around the world.
(1) The original abbreviation of LRT as “light rail transit” is widely used, but MLRT instead uses it to mean “light rapid transit” after the system’s high-speed performance. (2) AGT systems are a new type of fully automated transport system with electric power drives, used in airports around the world to provide mobility between terminals and to nearby facilities. The system utilizes rubber tires to provide a smooth ride with low noise.
About MHI Group
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group is one of the world’s leading industrial groups, spanning energy, logistics & infrastructure, industrial machinery, aerospace and defense. MHI Group combines cutting-edge technology with deep experience to deliver innovative, integrated solutions that help to realize a carbon neutral world, improve the quality of life and ensure a safer world. For more information, please visit www.mhi.com or follow our insights and stories on spectra.mhi.com.
Memiontec Holdings Ltd. (“Memiontec” or the “Company”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), a total water solutions provider in Asia, wishes to announce that the Group has been awarded a S$56.6 million contract (the “Contract”) by the Public Utilities Board (“PUB”), Singapore’s National Water Agency.
Under the Contract, the Group will install membrane bioreactor equipment which has a treatment capacity of 22 million gallons per day for the Changi Water Reclamation Plant Phase 2, Contract C22C. The works under the Contract are scheduled to commence in May 2022 and the contract duration is estimated to be around 23 months.
Subject to any unforeseen, unexpected or unplanned circumstances or events, the Board expects the Contract to contribute positively both to the Group’s financial results for the duration of the Contract as well as to its net tangible assets per share and earnings per share for the current financial year ending 31 December 2022.
Memiontec’s Executive Director and CEO, Mr Tay Kiat Seng, said, “Securing this Contract from PUB is a significant achievement for Memiontec, both in terms of its contract value and technical complexity.
The Contract replaces the recently completed project for the complete replacement of a membrane filtration system at Tuas South Desalination Plant (the largest desalination plant in South East Asia), which has a contract value of S$33.2 Million, as the largest single contract secured by the Group to date.
Singapore has been one of our key markets for more than 20 years and securing this Contract is a reflection of both our commitment and our technical capabilities as a one-stop total solutions water treatment company.
We are committed in continually supporting PUB in their efforts to enhance and develop Singapore’s water infrastructure and capabilities.”
This press release is to be read in conjunction with Memiontec’s announcement released on 24 March 2022 in relation to the Contract, which can be downloaded via www.sgx.com and http://memiontec.com/announcements/.
Memiontec Holdings Ltd. (“Memiontec” or the “Company”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) is a Singapore-based one-stop total solutions water treatment company with over 20 years of experience in water and wastewater management services across Singapore, Indonesia and the PRC.
With a synergistic business model that encompasses the entire value chain in the water industry, the Group has 4 key business segments as follows: – Total Solutions Engineering Procurement Construction services (“TSEPC”); – Operation, maintenance and service of water and wastewater treatment plants (“OMS”); – Sales and distribution of water treatment systems and trading (“SDS & Trading”); and – Sales of water (“SOW”) through transfer-own-operate-transfer (“TOOT”) and build-own- operate-transfer (“BOOT”) projects, which involve partnerships or joint ventures with public or private entities, for recurring income.
Through the use of membrane, ion exchange, physical, chemical and biological processes and leveraging its in-house design, engineering, fabrication and assembly capabilities, Memiontec develops reliable, compact, cost-effective, innovative and space-efficient customised water and wastewater treatment solutions across the entire value chain in the water industry.
Serving both municipalities and diverse industries in Asia as a one-stop total solution water treatment company for more than 20 years, Memiontec has developed strong working relationships with both public and private sector customers in the region such as the Public Utilities Board (PUB), Obayashi Singapore, Pokka Corporation Singapore, Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore, PDAM (national water agency of Indonesia), PT Jakpro (Jakarta state- owned infrastructure developer), PT PP, PT Abipraya Brantas, Sinarmas, Lippo, etc.
For more information, please visit http://memiontec.com/
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Crystal Mover Services, Inc. (CMSI), a member of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group based in Miami, Florida, that is engaged in operation and maintenance (O&M) of automated people mover (APM)(Note) systems for U.S. airports, has successfully renewed a contract with the Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD) for O&M of the “Skytrain” APM serving the North Terminal (Concourse D) at Miami International Airport (MIA). The contract covers a 5-year period commencing January 2022, with an option extendable up to a further 5 years. This new contract also covers the renewal of signal and other equipment of the APM systems, and for the manufacture and supply of two additional vehicles(4-cars).
Miami International Airport APM
MHI Group, jointly with Sumitomo Corporation, won the original order to construct the Skytrain, which links four stations over a distance of roughly 1.1km, in 1999. CMSI has provided O&M services since the line went into operation in September 2010, achieving a safe and reliable transportation system with a high operating ratio. Currently ten 2-car trainsets are in operation, and with the newly ordered vehicles the APM’s transportation capacity will be enhanced further. Their manufacture will be undertaken at the Mihara Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHIENG).
CMSI was jointly established in January 2009 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc., which oversees MHI’s business operations in the U.S., and Sumitomo Corporation. Since its founding CMSI has performed O&M of all APM systems delivered by MHI Group to international airports in Miami, Washington Dulles, Atlanta, Orlando and Tampa. In this way, the Company is making significant contributions to the safe and stable operation of the transportation systems serving these important hubs.
Going forward, MHI Group will continue to work closely with its service bases around the world to provide solutions of high added value responding to customer needs, including equipment renewals and provision of new services incorporating digital and AI technologies. Through delivery of the electrically driven APM systems, which are clean transportation systems, the Company will provide solutions that promote economic development around the world and address regional issues including improvement of transportation convenience.
APM systems are used worldwide to connect air terminals or function as transportation systems that serve areas near airports.
About MHI Group
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group is one of the world’s leading industrial groups, spanning energy, logistics & infrastructure, industrial machinery, aerospace and defense. MHI Group combines cutting-edge technology with deep experience to deliver innovative, integrated solutions that help to realize a carbon neutral world, improve the quality of life and ensure a safer world. For more information, please visit www.mhi.com or follow our insights and stories on www.spectra.mhi.com.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has awarded a first contract from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) for manufacture of 6 units of divertor outer vertical target additional components for ITER(1,2), the experimental fusion reactor currently under construction in southern France. The Outer Vertical Target is one of the parts in the divertor. In acknowledgement of the company’s mass production technologies for components with a high degree of manufacturing difficulty, MHI will handle the manufacturing of the first of a kind units (Units 1-6, of a total of 54), with successive completion and delivery scheduled in fiscal 2024.
The divertor is one of the core components of the fusion reactor used in the tokamak. It removes the helium (He) ashes in the core plasma produced by the fusion reaction, unburned fuel and other impurities, as well as removes high heat load and particle loading, which are necessary for stable confinement of the plasma. The divertor comprises four parts: the Outer Vertical Target being procured by Japan, the Cassette Body and Inner Vertical Target being manufactured in the EU, and the Dome being made in Russia.
The heat load in the divertor reaches a maximum of 20MW/m2. That is equivalent to the surface thermal load on an asteroid probe at re-entering into the atmosphere, and approximately 30 times the surface thermal load on the space shuttle. The Outer Vertical Target, which structurally directly faces the fusion plasma, will be used in an extreme environment exposed to the heat load and particle loading from the plasma. In addition, the structure has an extremely complex shape, requiring a leading edge manufacturing and machining technologies.
MHI previously awarded a contract from QST for manufacture of five (of a total of 19) toroidal field (TF) coils, another core component of ITER. Four of these units have already been shipped, and are in the process of being installed in the device at the ITER site.(3) Going forward, by continuing to work on manufacturing the divertor, MHI will actively support the ITER project to develop this technology, which will be vital to the stable development of the world, and contribute to the realization of fusion energy.
(1) Fusion is the energy source that enables the sun to keep shining. The ultimate goal is achieving fusion on Earth. Fusion reactions fuse light atomic nuclei (deuterium and tritium) in a plasma environment into the heavier element of helium. Fusion reactions emit zero carbon dioxide, and their source of fuel can be extracted from seawater in virtually unlimited quantities (lithium from which tritium is derived, and deuterium). Fusion energy is expected to provide fundamental solutions to many of the world’s energy and environmental problems. (2) The ITER Project is an international megaproject to demonstrate, both scientifically and technologically, the feasibility of fusion energy. Seven participating parties (Japan, the EU, the U.S., Russia, South Korea, China, and India) are constructing ITER in Saint-Paul-les-Durance, France, with a target for full-fledged operational startup of nuclear fusion combustion by 2035. QST, as the ITER Japan domestic agency for the ITER Project designated by Japanese government, is in charge of procuring these components. (3) For details on the TF coils that QST ordered from MHI, see the following press release.
About MHI Group
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group is one of the world’s leading industrial groups, spanning energy, logistics & infrastructure, industrial machinery, aerospace and defense. MHI Group combines cutting-edge technology with deep experience to deliver innovative, integrated solutions that help to realize a carbon neutral world, improve the quality of life and ensure a safer world. For more information, please visit www.mhi.com or follow our insights and stories on www.spectra.mhi.com.
Ohio-based 3D printing contract manufacturer Tangible Solutions announces the appointment of Andy Blankemeier as Director of Sales effective August 2021. He will drive all strategic customer relationships, develop new business strategies, and plan, implement and manage the company’s overall sales strategies in the orthopedic medical implant market.
Prior to joining Tangible Solutions, Blankemeier was most recently the Business Development Manager – Medical at Global Equipment Services (GES) where he identified, developed and expanded long-term relationships and strategies with medical device OEMs. For more than 10 years, he has utilized his expertise in the medical device industry in various roles at Zeiss Microscopy, AMETEK Inc. and Invivo Corporation, Carl Zeiss Microscopy.
“As an engineer and a technical/medical sales expert, I have an innate curiosity to understand how things work, the desire to communicate with everyone around me, and a desire to impact people’s lives,” says Blankemeier. “Working with medical device OEMs to build the highest quality and safest devices for patient care is where I believe I can have the most impact. This work is bigger than myself; and I feel the passion of the OEMs for what they are doing to help others through the creation of life changing/saving devices. The people at these companies truly care for the patients they are helping and they really live it—something I try to emulate every day.”
“Andy brings extensive expertise in medical device sales and engineering and an outstanding account management and sales performance to lead our sales efforts,” states Adam Clark, Tangible Solutions Chief Executive Officer. “He has a driving desire to bring next-generation orthopedic medical devices to the marketplace to benefit patients, and that makes him an exceptional fit for what we are doing at Tangible Solutions.”
Blankemeier holds a Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University.
Current and potential customers can meet Blankemeier at AAOS 2021, August 31 – September 3 in San Diego, CA, at the Tangible Solutions booth #3953.
About Tangible Solutions Tangible Solutions, based in Fairborn, Ohio, is a globally recognized contract manufacturer of American-made 3D printed Titanium orthopedic implants, and is ISO 13485:2016 certified and FDA registered #3014273501.
Founded in 2013, the company looks beyond the average and industry standard in offering end-to-end management of device manufacture, and is committed to customer responsiveness and engagement, on-time delivery, and quality that exceeds expectations. With decades of experience, market-proven orthopedic implant expertise and engineering vision, Tangible delivers unparalleled medical devices of the highest quality.
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