Largest Private-Sector Steel Company in India Will Use Experion Automation Control SystemPHOENIX, Feb. 18, 2004 - Honeywell (NYSE: HON) Process Solutions announced today that it has received a $4.1 million contract to automate all major areas of the Tata Steel G-Blast Furnace in Jamshedpur, India. The integrated automation solution will allow Tata Steel to operate the blast furnace at peak efficiency by linking controls and sharing information across all major furnace operations. "Honeywell offers a complete solution," said V.K Sinha, Chief of Special Projects for Tata Steel. "We have had excellent success with Honeywell systems, implementation and on-site services. They gracefully handle immensely complex projects and work within short shutdown periods. We are pleased to work with Honeywell again as we continue to upgrade our furnace operations with Experion." The automation project, part of a facility upgrade, is the second major contract Tata Steel has awarded to Honeywell in the last 12 months. In January 2003, the Experion (tm) Process Knowledge System (PKS) was installed for control of four boilers at the Jamshedpur facility. Honeywell will automate blast furnace operations using Honeywell's Experion PKS, Uniformance® Process Historian Data (PHD) solution and Asset Manager PKS®. The integrated solution will link the facility's stoves, cast house, utilities, stock house and weighing systems, raw material handling, coal injection, slag granulation, furnace cooling and gas cleaning plant. The entire operation will be viewed on large video screens in a main control room. All operations will be automated and controlled using an Experion solution consisting of three pairs of redundant Servers with more than 30 C200 controllers, 12,000 input/output connections, 12 operator stations and fiber optic communications. Advanced Experion features, including Distributed System Architecture, will provide seamless sharing of process and configuration data. "We have enjoyed working alongside the people at Tata Steel and we are thrilled to embark on this new project," said Desmond Teo, Asia Pacific Vice President and General Manager for Honeywell Process Solutions. "This is an excellent environment in which Experion brings so many advantages to a very complex operation. We are glad to be part of Tata Steel's ongoing growth and success within its industry."Honeywell Process Solutions provides a broad portfolio of process solutions, including its loop control services and its market leading Experion Process Knowledge System. Recently, Control Engineering magazine awarded Honeywell Process Solutions their coveted Editors' Choice Award, honoring Experion for its market impact, technological advancement and service to industry.Honeywell International is a $23 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; specialty chemicals; fibres; and electronic and advanced materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the New York, London, Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, please visit www.honeywell.com. Honeywell Process Solutions is part of Honeywell's Automation and Control Solutions group, a global leader in providing product and service solutions that improve efficiency and profitability, support regulatory compliance, and maintain safe, comfortable environments in homes, buildings and industry. For more information about Process Solutions, access www.acs.honeywell.com.This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about future business operations, financial performance and market conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in business forecasts as further described in our filings under the Securities Exchange Act.PKS® and Uniformance® are registered trademarks and Experion(tm) is trademark of Honeywell International Inc.
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