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[September 2002]
Tosoh Selects AspenTech's Engineering Solutions
Japan's diversified chemical and speciality materials company, Tosoh Corporation, has signed a new five-year software licence agreement for the Aspen Engineering SuiteTM (AES) from Aspen Technology Inc (Cambridge, MA, USA). AspenTech's engineering solutions enable Tosoh to enhance its process development and engineering capabilities and to shorten time-to-market for new products."We chose AspenTech's Engineering Suite as our corporate standard engineering tool because of its ability to deliver tangible benefits," said Ichiro Hiraki, Tosoh's managing director. "We want to reduce our costs, increase our capacity and shorten our time-to-market. The AES technology will play a key role in achieving these goals and will reinforce Tosoh's position as a leading specialty chemicals manufacturer."
AES is described as enabling companies to achieve an optimal return on their process assets, execute projects in the shortest possible time and maximise the operational performance of each manufacturing plant. Based on open standards, AES allows process manufacturers to use the best available tools for each part of an engineering project and manage process assets through their entire lifecycle from planning and design to operations.
Founded in 1935, Tosoh has expanded its reach into high value-added businesses such as fine chemicals, scientific instrumentation, thin films and quartzware. It is now a multi-billion dollar corporation that employs more than 9,000 people in 18 countries.
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