Further bolstering the argument that CSIA, the Control System Integrators Association (www.controlsys.org) has been making for over a decade, the Dow Chemical Company has given Maverick Technologies, which may be the largest independent control system integrator in the world at this point, a significant contract. Here's the press release outlining what they've done:
MAVERICK Technologies Awarded Strategic System Integrator Services Agreement by The Dow Chemical Company
COLUMBIA, Ill. (June 5, 2012) - MAVERICK Technologies announced today that it has signed a Strategic System Integrator Services Agreement with The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) in support of Dow's North America Process Automation capital projects envelope. This multi-year agreement ranges across all Dow products and includes potential new project work spanning across the globe. Dow currently serves customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings, agriculture, performance materials and plastics.
"It's an honor that The Dow Chemical Company chose to elevate our relationship by awarding us this Strategic Services Agreement," said Paul Galeski, P.E., CAP, CEO and founder of MAVERICK Technologies. "We look forward to the opportunity to help Dow achieve its strategic business goals."
This contract includes potential new projects for specialty chemical, advanced materials, agro sciences and plastics businesses in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture. MAVERICK Technologies is currently providing process automation services for several Dow Business Units across the globe.
What this means is that even the world's largest companies are beginning to recognize the benefit of working with a control system integrator who can provide everything from design and design assist to system configuration, FAT, installation and SAT. CSIA has been saying this for many years, and they continue to be proven correct. 'Nuf said.
