Subject:	RTP RELEASES THE NEW TÜV SIL3 RTP3000 CONTROL SYSTEM
Date: Description:	12/03/2009 RTP has implemented small but significant changes to improve the performance of its TÜV certified combined Control and Safety System with versatile, single, redundant and TMR architecture. The RTP3000 offers 12msec reaction time, screw to screw, and 1msec SOER on both digital and analog signals. The 99.9999% declared system availability places the system above all others for use in critical applications such as ESD and F&G. The cost of shutdowns caused by system faults is practically zero. A further cost reduction is obtained with having identical components for both the control and safety systems and the non-obsolescence policy derived to meet the needs of the nuclear industry which RTP has served since its inception.
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Subject:	MAINTENANCE CONTRACT FOR GREENSTREAM GAS RECEIVING TERMINAL
Date: Description:	19/03/2009 The company Greenstream, part of the ENI Group, has renewed the maintenance contract with ECISGroup for the integrated automation system (DCS+ESD+F&G) at their Gas Receiving Terminal at Gela. The contract covers preventative and corrective maintenance, as well as a 24/7 (24 hours a day, 365 days a year) standby for urgent repairs. Many problems can be solved from Muggiò using remote access to the system via the ENI network over a DPN line. The heart of the system is an RTP DCS, and the ESD is a SIL3 certified Triconex TMR system. The system exchanges data with the Gas Compression station at Mellitah in Libya. The Gela terminaI can provide 13% of the national consumption to the Italian network and further expansion planned for the near future.
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Subject:	ENGINEERING PROCESS DEPARTMENT
Date: Description:	26/03/2009 Since its inception, the Process dept. of ECISGROUP has distinguished itself with its high level of professionals with years of experience in the fields of Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemical, offering its services both to EPC Clients and to the internal process design requirements within ECISGROUP. Now, three years later, our Process Dept. has been powered up to a total of ten qualified staff among which are top professionals, senior and intermediate engineers, to these we can add the same number of external consultants.
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Subject:	FOSTER WHEELER - AZ-ZAWIYA
Date: Description:	02/04/2009 ECISGROUP acquires a major PMC (Project Management Consulting) project for services trough Foster Wheeler Italy for Az-Zawiya refinery in Libya. The contract, worth approximately € 2M, covers the replacement of the full refinery instrumentation: for both field and control room. Our Project Team staff located in Milan, will continue its activities in Libya and is expected to complete the project within 18 months.
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Subject:	POLITECNICO DI MILANO Career Day
Date: Description:	07/04/2009 We are looking for young graduates in Chemical Engineering, Management Engineering and Automation Engineering to be inserted in our organization in the following areas: • Project Management, • Project Control, • Processes Control Development Come and visit us at the next Career Day in Milan on May 7TH 2009 Politecnico di Milano Career Day Campus Bovisa Broggi – Stand 59
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Subject:	NUOVO PIGNONE CHOOSES ECISGROUP FOR THEIR TURBINES
Date: Description:	09/04/2009 In the 2008 we got a great result from who is already one of our most important customers in Italy, the General Electric Oil&Gas , in Italy better known as Nuovo Pignone. Having NP previously measured Ecisgroup on single supplies of different types of Skids, we have acquired, after 5 months of negotiation, a Frame Agreement , valid for three year, for the supply of differently sized filtering gas skid, whenever NP will get an order for one of their medium large sized turbines.
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Subject:	RTP3000 USE ONBOARD SHIPS
Date: Description:	13/10/2009 In May, RTP expects to receive certification from ABS (America Bureau of Shipping) for the RTP3000 system permitting use onboard ships. RTP also expects TÜV certification for many enhancements incorporated into the system as a result of customer feedback. One of these is a new program viewing mode called Input Connection Viewing mode that enables fast identification of all objects and linkages associated with a selected object to simplify the debugging of complex programs.
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Subject:	A NEW CONTRACT WITH SAIPEM FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF FIRE DETECTION DEVICES
Date: Description:	13/10/2009 Ecisgroup has been awarded a maintenance contract by Saipem Energy Services, an ENI Group company. The contract is a “frame agreement” order for the supply of fire and smoke detection devices, and acoustical warning devices. This new contract runs until September 2011, and covers all sites managed by Saipem E.S. This new order is a further acknowledgement of the standing of ECISGroup in the field of safety and monitoring supply.
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Subject:	1999 - 2009: HIMA-ECISGROUP, 10 SUCCESSFUL YEARS
Date: Description:	13/10/2009 In April, ECISGroup received an order for the supplied of two ESD (Emergency ShutDown System) for Groups 3 and 4 of the ENEL Power Station at Fusina. Each of the two units has a generating capacity of 320MW has multi-fuel (coal, oil and natural gas) firing. The ESD system will handle the automatic shutdown of the turbines, generators and electrical distribution. The system will be based on HIMA SIL3 technology. The system will be fully redundant and will have a dedicated supervision HMI system with SOER (Sequence of Events Recorder) with acquisition of rapidly occurring signals with a resolution better than 1mS. With this order, ECISGroup will have supplied 70% of all HIMA systems installed in ENEL power stations. It is reconfirmation of its unchallenged leadership in the field of safety systems. The exceptional spirit of cooperation of HIMA with ECISGroup in these 10 years has resulted in more than 75 certified systems , equivalent to over 20,000 I/O installed. Half of these systems are under a maintenance contract with ECISGroup that includes a 24 hour per day standby for emergency assistance.
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Subject:	QATALUM: EPC contract
Date: Description:	13/10/2009 The Qatalum project is nearing completion and in these days our personnel on site are performing commissioning and start-up. The job, distinguished by its international nature, represented an important step in the development of ECISGroup as an EPC, involving all departments of the company. The order was received in January 2008. After the initial phase of collaboration with SNC Lavalin International in Canada for the engineering and procurement, the project moved to Italy for the construction of the skids and then on to Qatar for the construction and installation at the site of the end customer, Qatalum in Mesaieed, Qatar, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Hydro. When the construction is finished, it will be the largest aluminium producing plant in the world with a capacity of 585,00 tons for the first phase. Our part of the job was worth almost 5M Euros and consisted of the supply of a fuel gas system, including a gas treatment plant, with units preconstructed on skids (gas/liquid separator, filtration, metering, preheat, pressure reducing and odourisation of natural gas) , 4.5km of gas pipelines, the cathodic protection system and leak detection system for the buried pipeline and the control system for the entire station.
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Subject:	EMC Egypt - Air Compressor Packages
Date: Description:	13/10/2009 ECISGROUP has recently completed the delivery of two Air Compressor Packages for the customer EMC (Egyptian Maintenance Company), a growing contractor that is a new customer for us in Egypt, which has been a successful export market for ECISGROUP for over two decades. The first unit is destined for the SWGEZ-2 platform, while the second is for the Karama Power Plant. The latter was composed of two compressors (automatic start-up technology), separation, filtration and drying units all controlled by a redundant HIMA PLC system.
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Subject:	3D Modelling & PDM - The choice of Solidworks Enterprise PDM
Date: Description:	13/10/2009 ECISGROUP has finalised the investment to implement its own Product Data Management and design. In particular, the program chosen for 3D Modelling is Solidworks which will be used for the development, design and engineering of projects. This will enable, through PDMWorks Enterprise, the production of document forms for the base materials, the filing and document management and materials handling for the production directly during the engineering phase, optimizing the processing and consequently reducing the delivery time of the complete job.
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Subject:	ECISGROUP S.p.A. joins the seminar organized by AIS/ISA on IEC61508/IEC61511 standards
Date: Description:	02/12/2009 Ecisgroup SpA participates with the attached presentation to the seminar organized by AIS/ISA on IEC61508/IEC61511 standards, concerning the reliability of instrument safety systems. The presentation focused on the design improvement applicable to an HIPPS, showing the advantages achieved by each proposed improvemnt.
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Subject:	TUV certification of Ecisgroup conformity with IEC61511 1-3 (2003)
Date: Description:	02/12/2009 28/10/2009 ECISGROUP S.p.A. is assessed by TUV to have in place a Functional Safety Management System, in accordance with the standard IEC61511 1-3 (2003). This achievement is a further confirmation of Ecsigroup capability and committment in the development, design and engineering of Instrumented Safety Systems like ESD and HIPPS.
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Subject:	PDVSA PAGMI projects through Egyptian ENPPI contractor
Date: Description:	23/04/2010 ECISGROUP delivered the skids ordered by the Egyptian engineering company ENPPI for a natural gas treatment plant for PDVSA in Venezuela. The completion of the plant is envisaged in two stages and when finished will be able to supply the Venezuelan domestic market with 34 million standard cubic meters of gas each day. ECISGROUP is building a fiscal metering system consisting of two Gas Metering Skids (upstream and downstream) with the relative chromatographic analysers for the gas composition as well as the skid for the supply of nitrogen for plant utility use with a production rate of approximately 21 cubic meters per minute. The contract, which has a value of almost 2 million Euros include a redundant system for the control and supervision of skids.
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Subject:	REVAMPING: “MIXED BEDS” ENEL Brindisi
Date: Description:	23/04/2010 ECISGROUP has been awarded the contract for the upgrading of the automation system for the condensate treatment plant of Group 3 of the Brindisi Power Station (ENEL Federico II - 660MW), a plant also known as “Mixed Beds”. The job involves the revamping of an old system that was installed at the beginning of the nineties and now considered obsolete. The new system, provided by Invensys, will be installed in a cabin inside the machinery hall and it will be engineered with a completely redundant architecture at the control level and a dedicated HMI where it will be possible to set all the functional parameters and fine tune the plant completely automatically. Our scope starts with the reverse engineering and continues with the site activities including the dismantling of the obsolete system and installation of the new system with new instrumentation, followed by commissioning and start up.
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Subject:	A NOTE ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Date: Description:	23/04/2010 The mixed beds plant is a demineralization plant that cleans the water required to feed the steam generators (feed water) from all the residue left by corrosion and traces dissolved salts. This operation provides a high efficiency for the heat transfer inside the boiler and the high degree of purity that is required for steam turbines. The demineralization is performed by ion exchange and this is achieved by passing the condensate through special resins that retain the impurities but which periodically need to be regenerated with suitable chemical treatment. The automation system being supplied will handle 3 mixed beds that will function automatically and which will guarantee the continuity of operation even when one mixed bed is unavailable while the resins are being regenerated.
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Subject:	SNC LAVALIN - QATALUM Project EPC CONTRACT
Date: Description:	23/04/2010 ECISGROUP has successfully completed the start-up of the Fuel Gas system in the Qatalum project. The part of plant realized by ECISGROUP is one of the first that has been put into operation within the future biggest plant in the world for the production of aluminium; thanks to this achievement, Ecisgroup has deserved the acknowledgement of the main Contractor of Qatalum SAPB, SNC Lavalin Int (SLI): "Qatalum smelter in Mesaieed Qatar is the largest Aluminium plant ever lanched. SNC-Lavalin is the major contractor responsible for the delivery of Potroom Buildings, and all Plantwide utilities. We hereby confirm that the company ECISGROUP S.p.A. - Italy, have satisfactorily performed their contract which covered basic and detailed design, fabrication, installation, commissioning and start-up of the Fuel Gas System (Fuel Gas Treatment and associated pipelines).Ecisgroup has demostrated their depth of knowledge of the gas handling system and their control of quality and delivery schedule; their timely completion of the works has been essential to the achievement of the project’s target completion date. We appreciate their co-operation, as well as their profesionalism in which they have conducted their work throughout. SNC LAVALIN International" Thanks to this successful result, SLI committed to ECISGROUP the realization of a Fire & Gas Detector plant that should protect the gas treating plant and the utilities served inside the factory.
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Subject:	ECISGROUP PARTECIPATES IN: 13th International Exhibition NEFTEGAZ June 21-25, 2010 Equipment and Technologies for the Oil&Gas Industries
Date: Description:	04/06/2010 Pavilion 8, Hall 2, Booth 82B60 EXPOCENTRE Moscow, Russia
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Subject:	13th International NEFTEGAZ 2010 Exhibition
Date: Description:	26/07/2010 In the end of June ECISGROUP has participated with an appropriate exhibit space in the 13th International NEFTEGAZ-2010 Exhibition which is held annually at the ExpoCentre Fairgrounds in Moscow downtown. ECISGROUP has considered it challenging to make itself visible in the foreground of NEFTEGAZ, which presents a unique platform for leading manufacturers of gas and oil production equipment and oil refining equipment from Europe, Asia and America to demonstrate their products to their target audience, establish direct business contacts and find marketing solutions for the future. This year there were presented over 1.000 exhibitors from 36 countries of the World and over 19.500 trade visitors. Among the exhibitors there were presented such well-known companies as: Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, Transneft, Tatneft, Kazmuniagaz, ABB, GE Oil&Gas, ANSALDO Sistemi Industriali S.P.A. Rolls-Royce PLC, Siemens, BASF, Endress+Hauser, HIMA, Krohne, Lurgi GMBH, ROCKWELL Automation, Japan Gas and Metals National Corporation, etc. and many others notional operators of the Oil&Gas Sector Worldwide, with the major part of which ECISGROUP already has the stable relations of cooperation for a long time.During its Presence in Moscow ECISGROUP has received over 150 visitors beginning with the small producers of various components for Oil&Gas Plants and up to the Scientific Research Institutes, from which we have received the variable inquiries, and to our huge satisfaction we have found out a keen interest concerning the vast range of the products and numerous technical solutions that we are able to offer. Moreover there were held a number of important meetings with the representatives of the management of such Companies as: Gazprom, JSC [the main operator of the Russian Gas Sector]; Tatneft, JSC [the State Oil Company of the autonomous Republic of Tatarstan]; Kompressor Gaz, Ltd [eader in Compressor equipment production in Russian Federation, in particular for Gazprom, JSC, military structures and submarine fleet]; NPO Geliymash, JSC [leader in cryogenic equipment production in Russian Federation]; GMS-GROUP, Holding Company [machine-building company for Hydraulic Mechanisms and Systems]. In the course of negotiations it has been achieved the conceptual understanding regarding the possible ways of co-operation, based on mutual interest of the concerned parties. The nowadays needs of the Russian Companies are focused on the “Know-How” in the engineering sphere, which is a force point of ECISGROUP. There were discussed the eventual projects where ECISGROUP can apply its knowledge and experience and there were achieved the preliminary agreements on the forms of collaboration. The next goal, which ECISGROUP should reach in order to locate, promote and enlarge its business in Russia is a Joint Venture creation, and the corner stone of this project is already laid down.
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Subject:	ENI POWER PROJECT
Date: Description:	26/07/2010 ECISGROUP is currently involved in the construction, installation & start-up of auxiliary utilities for a new phosphorus doping station of silicon wafers for the production of photovoltaic cells at EniPower’s plant of Nettuno, located at around 60 km from Rome. The plant covers an area of approximately 34,000 sqm, 8,000 sqm of which include production areas, offices and laboratories, technical service areas, warehouses and training centers. The plant hosts the photovoltaic activities of EniPower: the production of cells and photovoltaic modules in crystalline silicon, marketing of the products and “turnkey” solutions. The plant is capable of producing high efficiency solar cells based on crystalline silicon and monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar modules to achieve through use of high technologies and an installed production capacity of 30 MWp / year. EniPower policy is focused on technological innovation in the field of photovoltaics with the need to install new auxiliary facilities dedicated to the new section of doping (new doper and diffusion furnace by EniPower) searching in ECISGROUP a main contractor that could follow step by step the development of the engineering process of auxiliary facilities for the new doper machine, considering the deep multidisciplinary experience of ECISGROUP. ECISGROUP is involved in all the construction activities of the auxiliary facilities, including the design and construction of all civil, mechanical and electrical-instrumentation works, as EniPower Contractor in accordance with the legal provisions on construction sites as per the Italian law D. Lgs. 81/08. The auxiliary equipment to be supplied by ECISGROUP is divided in 3 areas: AREA100: A Doping Mixture (ethanol 97.5%, 2.5% H3PO4) storage and dosing system. The Doping Mixture storage and dosing system is designed in order to feed the doper of the silica wafer with a perfectly homogenized solution and with controlled temperature. The mixture of ethanol and diluted phosphoric acid is discharged from the supply drums and loaded into a storage and intermediary homogenization tank before being transferred into the dosing tank. The doping mixture temperature is ensured by a conditioning system installed in the recirculation line upstream the doper connection. Keeping constant the doping mixture temperature is an essential requisition for the doper machine process. AREA 200: Air Treatment system (for ethanol vapor), coming from the doping section, is designed through active carbons filters and scrubber system. The emissions coming from the doping silica wafer section are conveyed to a reduction system, composed by a active carbon filters section and a scrubber water tower, equipped with single or structured filling for the intimate contact between polluted air and the absorbent solution. AREA 300: A new osmosis water plant, based on the electro-deionization (EDI system), in order to feed the doped silica wafer basins. A pumping station and the relevant piping connection (which replace the existing one), starting from the osmosis water storage tank to the EDI system. The EDI plant consists of three lines/modules able to produce a total of nominal 8.5 m3/h demineralized water, with a conductivity lown than 0.0625 µS /cm (resistivity > 16 MOhm-cm). The EDI system is also designed to allow a future expansion, which can increase up to 33% nominal capacity. The successful collaboration between ECISGROUP & EniPower will be certainly a key reference point for the future business activities related to alternative energy sources, which are growing quickly in the global market. Environmental protection, health and safety of workers, relations with local entity and with the stakeholders are the key elements of the logistics management of ECISGROUP
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Subject:	LAST ECISGROUP PLANT DIVISION’S SUPPLIES
Date: Description:	26/07/2010 ecently, ECISGROUP has completed three plants within world-wide projects in Oil&Gas and petrochemical sectors. With our supply of Chemical Injection to the Egyptian Styrenics production company (E-STYRENICS), ECISGROUP has consolidated its position in the Egyptian Market, where it has already participated in several projects in petrochemical and Oil&Gas sectors with twenty years experience. E-STYRENICS was set-up in Sep. 2005 as a corner stone of Egyptian petrochemicals strategy. Plant and project facilities will be located at Alex., El Dekhella area. ECISGROUP successfully completed the supply of two Diesel Oil Filtering and Metering skids for turbines MS5001 installed in Daura Refinery. Thanks to this supply, ECISGROUP has been qualified by GE Oil&Gas Nuovo Pignone for Liquid Fuel System. Operated by the Midland Refineries Co. (MRC), Daura refinery is located just outside Baghdad and represents a significant step in the growth of refining capacity in Iraq. ECISGROUP will furnish a Fuel Gas Scrubber skid for Arzew Refinery Rehabilitation project in Algeria. ECISGROUP has a great experience in providing gas filtering systems for General Electrics turbines, that’s the reason why it has been selected as supplier for standard filtering systems. Arzew Refiney is located in the western of Algeria and it has been involved in a restructuring and modernization process, including the upgrading of process units and installation of isomerisation units to increase the refinery capacity by 1 million t/y to reach 3.2 million t/y.
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Subject:	TNGIZT Turkmenbashi Refinery DCU & SDA Units
Date: Description:	26/07/2010 LOTUS ENERJI - Turkmenistan DCU - Foster Wheeler Italiana [Italia] SDA - Foster Wheeler Bimas [Turchia] In June ECISGROUP got the contract for the supply of a Fire & Gas System at the Solvent Deasphalting Unit (SDA) for the TNGIZT Turkmenbashi Refinery in Turkmenistan. This is the extension of a project which began in 2009 with an initial supply of DCS, ESD and Fire & Gas with related Marshalling cabinets and Power Distribution for Delayed Coker Unit (DCU). As previously supplied, even for the new SDA unit added to the system F&Gas (order acquired in June 2010), the DCS and ESD systems are expected to be installed. These projects are in progress and we expect to complete all the activities by the end of this year and start the FAT planning at the beginning of 2011. The projects developed by Invensys / Foster Wheeler Italiana and Foster Wheeler Bimas (Turkey) play an important role for ECISGROUP, not only for the importance of the supply with more than 3500 installed I/O and more than 300 field equipments for Fire&Gas but also for the complexity of supply. In fact the scope of work includes also the development of basic engineering realized in synergy with FWI and FWB with elaboration of P&IDs, logic diagrams, shutdown logic etc.., in addition to the development of engineering of systems and the supply of materials (System Architecture, Database, and HW I/O Assignments, Layout & Wiring diagram etc.) and the software implementation and the realization of graphics pages of systems. The DCS system based on the I/A series technology has been engineered with a fault tolerant configuration (full redundancy of processors, HMI modules and I/O) to allow a high control level to adjust the plant process and the start-up. The Emergency Shutdown Systems and the Fire & Gas are based on Triconex IEC 61508 technology and have a security level SIL.3. They have been engineered with a Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) architecture, thus ensuring the protection of equipments installed in different areas (main fractionator, quench tower, reflux drum, furnace, coke drum, decoking derriks, vacuum extractor, DAO separator, pitch / DAO stripper) and providing the safety of the plant in case of eventual emergency. The systems, which are interconnected via the Fault Tolerant Mesh Control Network, ensure the centralized control/supervision of the refinery, allowing also the optimization of system performance.
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Subject:	ECISGROUP S.p.A. PARTECIPATES IN ADIPEC 2010 / 1st - 4th NOVEMBER, ABU DHABI - UAE (BOOTH No. 04130)
Date: Description:	01/10/2010
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Subject:	"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" Marcel Proust
Date: Description:	27/10/2010 Whereas the year 2009 was characterized by a difficult economic trend amplified by the reinforcement of the bank system’s credit crunch, ECISGROUP, also in the third quarter of 2010, has continued to believe in its development through significant actions. The first one is the strengthening of the Company’s assets which took place on July 15th, 2010, when the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Assembly resolved to increase the Share Capital to 1 million Euro. The second action is an increased commitment on foreign markets, with ECISGROUP’s participation in three important international events in October - November 2010. The first event will take place in Doha from 18th to 20th October: we will participate, upon invitation, in the Qatar Industrial Investment Conference promoted by the Qatar Ministry of Energy and Industry. In this context various local entities will have the opportunity to meet the entrepreneurs that operate in Qatar and that want to keep their firm presence in the country. The second event consists in our participation as exhibitors in ADIPEC, one of the most important international trade fairs in the Oil&Gas sector. The exhibition will take place in Abu Dhabi from 1st to 4th November 2010 and will be the occasion to formalize the agreement with our local Agent. The last but not least event will be the economic mission called “Gulf 2010”. The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE), Confindustria (the main organization representing Italian manufacturing and services companies) and the Italian Banking Association (ABI), under the aegis of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are organizing the Italian economic mission in Gulf countries in the cities of Riyad, Dammam and Abu Dhabi from 5th to 11th November 2010. After applying for it, ECISGROUP was admitted and honoured to be included among participants. During the mission, companies, divided up according to their operating sectors, will take part in round-table discussions and bilateral meetings with representatives of the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and with local companies.
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Subject:	KPO - NEW HEATING SISTEM AT WMC project
Date: Description:	27/10/2010 KPO / DEG/WATER FIRED HEATER PACKAGE / years: 2010 The implementation of our system upgrades a pre-existing water/glycol heating circuit with the purpose to meet end-users heating requirements, such as heating of storage tanks and buildings located in the industrial area of WMC, Kazakhstan. This package has been designed in order to heat 230 Nm3/h of water/glycol mix from 60° C to 80° C. The system consists of two fire tube boilers of 4 MW each, including BMS and local panel, two circulating pumps and a make-up & filling system. All around, included in the scope of supply, there are three expansion tanks, a PLC that monitors all the logic and loop system, two electrical distribution boards, a pre-heating system of the combustion air and an air-conditioning system. Considering the unfavorable weather conditions (-45° in winter + 50° C in summer), the whole package is placed in a large size container (length 14 mt., Width 8.5 mt., Height 4.1 mt). The cabinet has been designed and built in two half-units 4.25mt wide, suitable for transportation. All the mechanical and electrical internal interconnections have been designed and manufactured to be separated during transportation and reassembled on-site. Considering the location of the plant in a closed area with the presence of natural gas, high-tech security measures have been taken, such as F&G system with sensors, visual and audible alarms, emergency buttons and shut down logic, to protect both the plant and the operators in the surrounding areas. The scope of our supply is also the construction of Filtration, Reduction and Control Skid for natural gas. The function of the skid is to reduce the pressure of 500Nm3 of natural gas from 3-8 barg down to the operating pressure of the burners. The skid will also be equipped with block valves for F&G signal and block valves for high or low gas pressure and will be placed and protected within a cabinet.
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Subject:	INTERNATIONALIZATION_EGYPT
Date: Description:	27/10/2010 ECISGROUP has been present in EGYPT for more than 25 years! [Open the attached document to see all our supply in Egypt!]
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Subject:	ADIPEC 2010: Powering the world, fuelling the future...
Date: Description:	20/12/2010 ECISGROUP participated for the second time in the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) which took place in the United Arab Emirates from 1st to 4th November 2010. The Abu Dhabi Emirate is renowned for having 9% of the estimated world oil reserves and 5% of the world gas reserves, ranking fifth in the international classification of hydrocarbon producers and exporters. This huge wealth determines that the per-capita GDP of its 800.000 inhabitants ranks 15th in the world classification list, ahead of Italy (in the 28th position). Considering the above, together with an excellent organisation, the Exhibition had a remarkable success. More than 45,000 visitors were declared (the latest issue of the Trade Fair OMC in Ravenna had about 9,000 visitors and SAOGE in Dammam - Saudi Arabia - less than 8,000) and there were 1,502 exhibitors from 50 countries. 262 speakers gave a talk at the parallel Conference, whereas 1,050 press releases were issued. The main actors on the Oil&Gas international scene were obviously all present: the national companies (ADNOC, Saudi Aramco, Qatar Petroleum…), the technological firms (ABB, Emerson, Ansaldo, Schlumberger…), the contractors (Technip, Almansoori, Dolphin Energy, Maire Tecnimont, Lurgi, Technip…), as well as the Energy companies (BP, ExxonMobil, Total…) to name just a few. ECISGROUP has for long pursued an internationalisation strategy with an increasingly strong conviction; this strategy is aimed at creating a winning synergy between its peculiarities as EPC Contractor (a solid know-how combined with over 30 years experience) and a thorough knowledge of local entities that a commercial partner operating in the area can share. For this reason ECISGROUP was present with its own stand which was well-conceived and brilliantly located: a strategic location in a very busy place and only a few steps away from the stands of ADNOC, NPPC, Qatar Petroleum and others. More than one hundred interested companies visited our stand; in the rush hours ECISGROUP’s large team had difficulties in interacting with everybody. We welcomed visitors coming from the geographical area comprised between Libya and India. This area includes both nations that are already very dynamic, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates, and countries with great potential like Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan. Having important references in the area surely constitutes an excellent starting point; in other words, it is a great competitive advantage. Furthermore, we reckon that our brand, through our publications, product lists, catalogues, USB pen-drives, and gadgets reached about 500 visitors. According to an initial assessment, there are good chances to recover our investment. Now that spotlights are off, we will have to carry out effective commercial and marketing actions to guarantee the full success of the initiative.
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Subject:	QATAR INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
Date: Description:	20/12/2010 October 18th - 20th, 2010 - Doha [Qatar] ECISGROUP has completed with great success the first step in setting up a local joint venture in Qatar, in line with its own strategy of growth and internationalization. The ambitious Business Vision will allow the company to increase its market share in the Gulf Area, also thanks to the close co-operation with local players, exploiting essential synergies aimed at a higher operational efficiency as well as at products and services high quality, a key factor which has allowed the company to achieve great success during the last years. ECISGROUP S.p.A. has taken part in the Qatar Industrial Investment Conference & Exhibition, organized under the patronage of Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the Qatari Ministry of Energy and Industry, represented by the Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the country, Abdulla Bin Hamad Al-Attiah. The Minister himself inaugurated the opening session, followed by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Sh. Khalifah Bin Jasim Al-Thani. The conference had a significant international audience with a high number of participants coming from different industrial sectors, including: petrochemical, chemical, engineering, construction, mechanical, environment, etc. A keen interest was devoted to the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Chemical Sectors, under the patronage of Qatar Petroleum with the support of the consulting company Nexant, one of QP’s partners, where several projects finalized in researching new process technologies, have been presented. ECISGROUP presented its “Business Plan” aimed at establishing a production plant in Qatar for the production of its “packages”. To realize this project, the research of a Local Partner and transfer of know-how have been planned within the “Qatarization Programme”, so as strongly encouraged by the Qatar Government. The market feedback was extremely positive and allowed the company to further improve the alternatives in evaluating strategic local partners. Many Qatar Companies in fact, considering the strong interest in the proposed Business Plan, took their chance to schedule meetings with ECISGROUP’s top management and organize visits to their sites, to discuss in depth the project. The same members of the Qatar Government were quite interested and expressed their willingness in evaluating potential opportunities to be pursued within the territory of Qatar. ECISGROUP’s top management cautiously expects to start its business activity in Qatar by the end of 2nd Quarter 2011, granting in this way even more competitive services and meeting the increasing market demand.
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Subject:	INTERNATIONALIZATION_QATAR
Date: Description:	20/12/2010 OUR FIRST STEP IN QATAR [Open the attached document to see all our supply in QATAR!]
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Subject:	Economic Mission “Gulf 2010”
Date: Description:	20/12/2010 From 5th to 11th November in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates the Economic Mission called “Gulf 2010” was held. It was attended by Italian and host countries, the finance people, Confindustria, ICE, Abi and 130 Italian firms, divided by fields of membership, chosen by local companies to participate in round table discussions and bilateral meetings. ECISGROUP was present with the CEOMr. Fortunato Branda and the Consultant to the Board Mr. Giorgio Pesenti. The mission was very successful and enabled ECISGROUP to present itself once again to the International Markets having a lot of interest by local companies both for the type of output and for the added value that ECISGROUP is able to offer in giving assistance to Customers also after the supply.
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Subject:	SUCCESS IN THE PRESTIGIOUS CERTIFICATION OF ALL ECISGROUP SpA PREMISES according to ISO 9001:2008 standard
Date: Description:	20/12/2010 On 02nd and 03rd September 2010, at the Milan and Muggiò premises of Ecisgroup SpA, the recertification visit by the DNV Italy Certifying authority was held. The purpose of the inspection visit was to assess the overall effectiveness of the system and continuous quality management within the past certification period, included also the review activity of documentation (procedures, work instructions and forms) and its conformity to the updates in the 2008 edition of ISO 9001 regulations. The audit covered all Company business units (Sales and Marketing, Engineering Construction and Production, Supply Chain and Finance): in each of these business units inspectors have checked in detail the workflow, the system procedures and processes application, the record of activities and decisions taken, documents’ filing. All this through the traditional audit means that are interview of involved staff and hard and soft documentation examination used during the normal course of business. The final outcome of the inspection was very positive and the Company has obtained the conformity of all its business units. This result, however, was only the first of the targets that the Company will focus on in Quality area. The second was more or less "close" to that excellence in Quality which Management considers the fundamental and essential characteristic in establishing a successful relationship with the client and creating a product / service meeting all its needs. The final extension audit report prepared by the DNV inspectors placed Ecisgroup SpA very close to excellence and constitutes an undoubtedly and absolutely prestigious result: besides containing among the "emerging findings" (final summary report) just an observation and no non-conformity, neither major nor minor, it also presents a positive comment - technically known as "note worthy aspect" of the organization – relative to the "Completion of the analysis and the human resources evaluation in the organization for higher efficiency. A complete success which confirms the goodness of the strategic and organizational decisions taken by Ecisgroup SpA that constitutes a stepping stone for further increases in performance and skills across the whole organization.
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Subject:	"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result." Mahatma Gandhi
Date: Description:	20/12/2010
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