Industrial Cooling Solutions awarded contract at RAPID cracker complex in Malaysia

07-Jul-15

Industrial Cooling Solutions (ICS) has been awarded a contract to build a multi-million dollar 28-cell cooling tower at the RAPID steam cracker complex project in Johor, Malaysia. The contract was awarded by Japan-based Toyo Engineering Corp. (TEC) and its consortium partner, Thailand-based TTCL Public Co. (TTCL). The cracker complex is a part of the massive US$16 bln RAPID petrochemical complex being built by the Malaysian state-owned energy company Petronas. The concrete, back-to-back counterflow cooling tower will play a critical role in the development of the state-of-the-art RAPID refinery by reducing power use while maintaining optimum plant efficiency for maximum production output. The RAPID integrated refinery and petrochemical complex is currently scheduled to begin operating in 2019 and will add capacity to allow Petronas to better meet strong demand for refined products. “The fact that TEC and TTCL selected us for this landmark project, with the contract ratified by Petronas, is a testament to our record of global engineering excellence in complex cooling tower design and supply projects," said Tim Bozic, president of ICS. "We at ICS are honored to have been recognized in this manner.”