Coya Sur, Chile-Milan-based ABB, a power and automation technology group, has won a contract worth about $123 million to design, construct, and provide automation for a new fertilizer processing plant in Chile for SQM. The order was booked during the fourth quarter of 2007. Scheduled for completion in 2010, the new plant will be located at Coya Sur, Antofagasta region, in the north part of Chile. The new plant will produce more than 1,150 mt /d of potassium nitrate and is part of SQM’s long-term plan to increase its current specialty fertilizer production capacity. ABB will provide engineering, procurement, supply of equipment and materials, construction, commissioning and startup services, as well as overall project management. In addition, ABB will provide MV/LV power distribution systems and automation based on System 800xA.
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