Graz/Vienna, March 16, 2016.  ANDRITZ HYDRO, a part of international technology Group Andritz, has received an order from the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) to supply electromechanical equipment for the Srinagarind hydropower plant, Thailand. Commercial operations are scheduled to begin mid-2019.

This rehabilitation order includes the supply of three vertical Francis runners, including model test, generators, governors, automation system, main transformer, medium- and low-voltage switchgears, power and control cables, fire protection system, a 230-kilovolt disconnecting switch, the main inlet valve, mechanical auxiliaries, installation supervision, and commissioning. The hydropower plant houses five units with a total output of 720 megawatts.

The Srinagarind Dam is an embankment on the Khwae Yai River in Si Sawat District, Kanchanaburi Province, regulating the water level of the river and generating sustainable hydroelectric power.

The ANDRITZ GROUP

ANDRITZ is a globally leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the metalworking and steel industries, and for solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors. The publicly listed technology Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria, and has a staff of approximately 24,500 employees worldwide. ANDRITZ operates over 250 sites worldwide.

ANDRITZ HYDRO

ANDRITZ HYDRO is one of the leading global suppliers of electromechanical equipment for hydropower plants. With over 170 years of accumulated experience and more than 30,000 turbines installed, totaling approximately 420,000 megawatts output, the business area supplies the complete product range, including turbines, generators, and additional equipment of all types and sizes – “from water to wire” for small hydro applications up to large hydropower plants with outputs of more than 800 megawatts per turbine unit. ANDRITZ HYDRO is also well positioned in the growing modernization, refurbishment, and upgrade market for existing hydropower plants. Pumps (for water transport, irrigation of agricultural land, and applications in various industries) and turbogenerators for thermal power plants are also allocated to the business area.

Bangkok, 25 June 2014 – With falling price and continuous push from the telecom carriers, smartphone shipments accounted for more than half of Thailand’s mobile phone market for the first time even though the economy shrank 0.6% year-on-year (YoY) amidst the political conundrums that led to major roads in Bangkok being blocked for weeks.

This places Thailand as the third country in Southeast Asia after Singapore and Malaysia to ship more smartphones than feature phones.

According to IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the Thailand mobile phone market began the year with 5.7 million units, which represent a 7% year-on-year decline. Dragging down the total market was feature phones, which faced a 27% YoY decline. Meanwhile, smartphone showed a healthy growth of 27% YoY.

“These mirroring changes are a reminder of the way affordable smartphones have been successfully replacing feature phones in Thailand. Perhaps the most potent force now is the emergence of smartphones that cost less than THB2500 (US$80), a category which did not exist in Thailand a year ago, but now account for almost 20% of the total smartphone market,” says Satianporn Suvansupa, Associate Market Analyst for Client Devices Research at IDC Thailand.

“The transition has been driven largely by the carriers, which have been relentlessly persuading customers to adopt smartphones after the 3G licenses were granted. These trends are in line with IDC’s prediction that 2014 will be the first year smartphone outsells feature phone in Thailand.”

The relatively well-off performance of smartphone shipment also indicates its steady imperviousness to the sliding economy and political difficulties that have put a severe strain on other client devices such as PC and tablet. This is due to increased importance of constant communications, and also smartphone’s ability to partially serve other devices’ functions.

“Phone usage has become such an integrated part of our lives now to the point that it’ll be difficult mentally and practically to delay our phone purchase once the current one is lost or broken down. As such, consumers may at worse respond to their drop in income by choosing a reasonably priced smartphone instead of stopping the purchase altogether.”

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