Houston Office Update – Customer Case Study – Success Story! - IMS

Kaneka North America in Pasadena, TX has offered the IMS Houston office a great opportunity to serve. 

Kaneka is a global producer of products including pharmaceutical intermediates, electrical materials, food supplements, synthetic fibers and fine chemicals. IMS has successfully provided a number of control upgrades and on-going service support for this leading manufacture of CoQ10. 

Dan Woodrow, Team Leader – IMS Houston reports, “IMS does more than Just Steel.”

Kaneka North America LLC is the parent corporation of Kaneka Nutrients, located in Pasadena, TX is composed of three unique plants in the Houston area. Kaneka is a global producer of products including pharmaceutical intermediates, electrical materials, food supplements, synthetic fibers and fine chemicals. 

The Air Compressors Controls Upgrade Project is one of the first IMS projects at Kaneka’s Nutrients Plant, where they produce the purest Coenzyme Q10, aka CoQ10 in the world. CoQ10 has been shown to improve conditions related to the Heart, Diabetes, Parkinson’s, Migraines, and Physical  Performance.  CoQ10 has been added to highly rated energy drinks for optimal Mental and Physical Performance.  

 The Air Compressors Controls Upgrade consisted of upgrading the control hardware and software programs Operator Interface Terminals and PLC’s for two, Centrifugal Compressors as part of Kaneka’s Vision for Digital Transformation of all of their facilities.

The one most frequented by IMS is the Modifiers Plant, where modifiers are produced which are added to PVC to give it elastic properties. 

 IMS Projects include the Modifiers Utilities HMI Control Room Upgrade Project, where eight different HMI areas of multiple versions of RSView32 and FactoryTalk ME were upgraded and consolidated to the latest FactoryTalk SE platform.  Now with redundant virtual machine servers with a virtual ThinManager Server that automatically deploys HMI area screens to thin clients in the Utilities Control Room.  As Kaneka’s continues its for Digital Transformation and trust in Integrated Mill System’s continuous upgrades and on-going, local support, future opportunities await at the Nutrients Plant, The Modifiers Plant, and the Apical Polyimide Film Plant.