Global software and technology leader Emerson has entered a strategic partnership with Braskem Idesa. The partnership will see Emerson provide digital automation technologies and engineering services across Braskem Idesa’s operations in order to meet business performance metrics and achieve the company’s sustainability goals.
Braskem Idesa is a joint venture between Brazil-based Braskem, the largest producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas, and Grupo Idesa, one of the biggest petrochemical companies in Mexico.
A multi-year digital transformation roadmap will leverage Emerson’s extensive petrochemical industry expertise and broad portfolio of advanced automation technology and software solutions to drive not only operational excellence but also to support Braskem Idesa’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) scope 1 and 2 by 15 percent by 2028, and achieving full carbon neutrality by 2050.
Stefan Lepecki, Braskem Idesa’s CEO, said: “We identified several key financial and performance benchmarks and brought Emerson on board to participate in the creation of a detailed digital transformation strategy for achieving Top-Quartile results.
“Having a well-defined path forward has given us the confidence to pursue our sustainability and performance goals, with advanced, integrated technologies that help us support market demands.”
The company will be taking advantage of Emerson’s Operational Certainty methodology, the roadmap of which provides a framework for scalable improvements in some of the four key transformation work streams:
- Information management, including creating a data architecture for real-time KPIs and decision-making.
- Physical loss control, with enhanced energy management and loss control systems.
- Production and energy optimisation with advanced control technologies.
- Reliability and energy efficiency using data analytics, continuous emissions monitoring systems, LED lights and fugitive emissions reductions.
These workstreams align with Braskem Idesa’s three-pronged strategy for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, renewable energy use and low carbon intensity process technologies, renewable feedstocks and post-consumer recycling, and capturing carbon emissions to use as raw materials, value-added chemicals and as an alternative to future carbon taxes.
Mark Bulanda, executive president of Emerson’s Automation Solutions business, said: “Successful leaders are realising that sustainability initiatives are also good business. Reducing waste and unnecessary raw material consumption, lowering energy costs and driving profitability, all while improving environmental sustainability, is absolutely possible with the right focus and resolve.”
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