NEWS & NOTES
ConstructSecure Recognizes its Safest Contractors & Vendors
Once again, Prime Controls has been awarded a rating of Platinum for our safety practices and risk management decisions by Highwire, a global vendor approval system. This prestigious award recognizes companies that achieve a safety score greater than 95% in their Safety Assessment Program.
“Platinum status is not easily achieved. Prime Controls LP has demonstrated a remarkable commitment to implementing safety management systems resulting in exceptionally low incident rates” - Garrett Burke, CEO of Highwire.
The Dallas Morning News Top 100 Places to Work
Prime Controls ranked as the #24 Midsize company in the DFW area in The Dallas Morning News Top 100 Places to Work for 2019! The full results of the survey are published on Dallas Morning News. You can view a video about our company and this great achievement below.
Here we grow again!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all of your years of patronage and to introduce our new branch office located in Denver, Colorado. It will be our pleasure to serve you at our newest location with the same quality and service you have come to expect of us. We hope to see you soon!
Prime Controls - Colorado
7270 Gilpin Way, Suite 230
Denver, CO 80229
Phone: 720-307-1141
Prime Controls - "Safety First"
Prime Controls has been recognized for our achievements in working safely by the Gas Processors Association at their annual conference. "GPSA - Safety Award for Excellence in Safety Improvement" accepting this award on behalf of Prime Controls was Jim McMillon, Vice President of Operations (pictured below).
Prime Controls has also been awarded Safety Excellence Awards as a Contractor from TEXO, The Construction Association and most recently the American Subcontractor Safety Award for North Texas.
DCS Upgrade Improves Electrolyte Purification System Performance
ASARCO's copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas, is capable of refining nearly 500,000 tons of copper anode and scrap each year. Built in 1974, the refinery installed its electrolyte purification facility in 1993 to improve the quality of the refining process. Twenty years later, the purification system was in need of an upgrade.
Challenge
The ASARCO refinery houses 2,400 cells to carry out conventional electrowinning in which thin, pure copper cathode sheets are suspended in tanks filled with electrolyte solution and the anodes are inserted. When the anodes are charged with electric current, their copper atoms plate the cathode sheets. After 14 days, the cathodes reach a salable weight and are removed. A new cathode sheet is inserted and the process begins anew. "The primary outcome of the process is the pure copper cathode," said Jim Williams, project manager, ASARCO. "But there are also byproducts-small quantities of other metals and minerals-that vary depending on the composition of the ore body.
Solution
ASARCO called on Prime Controls, LP, a Rockwell Automation Solution Partner, to design the new purification control system. "Our goal was to design a control solution on a single platform that could handle every phase of the bismuth recovery process", said Trinidad Cruz, regional manager, Prime Controls, LP. To replace the existing DCS system, Prime Controls, LP designed and installed a PlantPAx process automation system from Rockwell Automation...
Prime Controls success story has been published online with Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine.
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