Yokogawa concludes partnership agreement with Degussa

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced it has concluded an agreement with Degussa, a major chemical manufacturer in Germany, to be a global supplier of process control systems for plant automation. The Yokogawa products and services covered by this agreement include Centum CS 3000 integrated production control system hardware/software.

Degussa is a multinational company that provides a wide variety of specialty chemicals. Major chemical manufacturers have been facing the need for cost reductions due to the current trend toward market globalisation and high-variety production. To meet such needs while maintaining quality at a high level, there is an increasing tendency among such manufacturers to move away from treating key equipment suppliers as mere vendors, opting instead for an approach whereby these suppliers are designated in advance and work closely as a business partner.

Teruyoshi Minaki, Director, Executive Vice President, Industrial Automation Business Headquarters, says, "Yokogawa has provided Degussa a total of 41 systems. Degussa has given an excellent rating to Yokogawa's general competence in such areas as product reliability, technology and global support systems, and this has been a key factor in this German company's choice of Yokogawa as a preferred supplier."