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Bremen warehouse modernisation
New administration building shines in new splendour
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COMPANY & STRATEGY New administration building Bremen p. 1 Strategic exchange with BORUSAN p. 2 Honour for BUHLMANN apprentice p. 2 Engineering Colloquium Dresden p. 2 What is LNG? p. 3 TUBE China 2014 p. 3 NUKLEA exhibition Grenoble p. 4 Offshore Energy exhibition Amsterdam p. 4 FDBR materials conference Düsseldorf p. 4 Planned exhibtions 2015 p. 4 CLIENTS & PROJECTS
Recently occupied: the new administration building in Bremen It provides space for more than 30 employees: The new BUHLMANN GROUP administration office at the Bremen site is now occupied. From now on the company‘s service departments will work together even more closely and efficiently. Following complete refurbishment of the shed roofs at the Bremen site (Solutions Quarterly reported), the new administration building now also shines in new splendour.
Completion of this office space now finalises modernisation work at the Bremen warehouse site. The two -storey building abuts directly onto the warehouses. The gross space of the new office complex, including stairwells, is 700 square metres. ‚From now on, our service departments in Bremen will work together even more closely and efficiently‘, Michael Thölken, Head of Warehouse, explains
th e b a ck g r o un d. B y s e r v i c e depar tments we mean Quality A s sur an c e , J o b P r e p a r a tio n, IT and Logistics. ‚New spatial capacity is also created in the main administration building for Sales‘, Michael Thölken reports. Modernisation complete Since commencing modernisation in Autumn 2012 additional floor area has been gained in Shed 4 as a result of the conversion
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measures, where stacking cradles and stanchions were stored. A new high-rack shelving system de signed fo r 1,30 0 skeleton crates, with a capacity of around 1,500 tonnes, was procured for Shed 5. Moreover, the warehouse was equipped with new order pickers for pipe accessories and a winding machine for stainless steel pipe packaging. In addition, new cranes were commissioned. Thanks to a new LED illumination system, BUHLMANN GROUP also makes and additional contribution to reducing CO2 emissions.
BUHLMANN GROUP wins in Evonik Industries invitation to tender
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they were responsible for monitoring supplier deadlines. ‚We are very proud to have handled such a prestigious project in this way, especially considering it was the first of this size‘, explains Nada Markmann, BUHLMANN GROUP‘s Senior Manager Sales West. ‚Thanks to the fantastic cooperation among my entire team, and their expertise, we managed in the end to convince Evonik that we will remain a strategically important and reliable trading partner in the future.‘
Big order for BUHLMANN GROUP in the Chemiepark Marl (Source: Evonik Industries) Invitation to tender victory for BUHLMANN GROUP: the premium trading house is critically involved in the expansion of an Evonik Industries production facility. The industrial group is increasing their 1-butene LNG capacity in Chemiepark Marl by 75,000 tonnes. From January until July 2014 BUHLMANN GROUP supplied Evonik
with more than 2000 items and a gross weight of 850 tonnes of steel products. This large contract was involved supplying seamless and welded carbon steel pipes, fittings and flanges. The flanges were also made available in stainless steel. The lion‘s share of the material volume came from BUHLMANN‘s central warehouse in Hilden, which has a total floor capacity
of 21,500 square metres. Handling was global teamwork Several BUHLMANN sites and departments were involved in handling this large contract. For example, the Team PowerGen from the Sales West department in Hilden and the BUHLMANN branch in Italy provided mutual support. Among other things
About Evonik Evonik operates world-scale production facilities for C4 hydrocarbon compounds in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and Antwerp, Belgium. What is known as 1-Butene is predominantly used as a co-monomer in the production of high-quality plastics such as polyethylene. For example, it embodies packaging films with greater tear strength. Evonik is a global leader in the production of C4-based products. In addition to 1-butene, butadien and MTBE, the product portfolio also includes isobutene, INA (isononalol), 2-PH (2-propylheptanol) und DINP (siisononylphthalate). The group concentrates its activities around the important megatrends of health, nutrition, resource efficiency and globalisation. Evonik is active in more than one hundred countries.
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Strategic exchange
BUHLMANN delegation visits Turkish steel producer BORUSAN
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BUHLMANN GROUP intensifies the partnership with the Turkish steel producer BORUSAN in Istanbul. In addition to cooperation in the welded pipes for the shipbuilding industry sector, activities in the oil and gas industry, and in the chemicals industry, are now also in focus.
from both companies agreed to hold a strategy meeting in Istanbul. ‚The aim was to further delineate our cooperation and agree on specific measures, but also to deepen personal contacts‘, Gerd Gründling, Director International Projects Division explained the reasoning behind this.
From BUHLMANN GROUP‘s perspective supplying the gas industry with welded pipes in both longitudinally and spirally welded formats was particularly interesting. BORUSAN even built a new factory in Gemlik for the latter production line, in order to service the global market. Here, BUHLMANN has become a preferred partner for servicing the German market and for special customers around the world.
On the bottom line both companies have moved even closer together, both strategically and operatively, and have thus further extended the basis for successful cooperation. Gerd Gründling emphasises, s u m m a r i s i n g : ‚ M o r e o v e r, t h e factory tours gave us a very good impression of pipe production. Our partner prizes the same values that we also appreciate. We are already cooperating on large gas industry projects in Germany and therefore on our first success stories.‘
In order to expand our good cooperation base, top management
Excited for a closer cooperation: Back row left to right: Hakan Özbay, Purchasing & Customer Technical Services Manager BORUSAN, Mr. Ugur Onbasi, Commercial Director BORUSAN, Özcan Aydin, Managing Director of ATTEC International GmbH, Jörg Klüver, Chief Operations Officer BUHLMANN GROUP, Reinhard Scheller, Chief Operations Officer BUHLMANN GROUP, Dr. Christian Baum, Director Technical Business Division BUHLMANN GROUP Front row left to right: Gerd Gründling, Director International Projects Division BUHLMANN GROUP, Akin Eren, Quality Manager BORUSAN, Hande Unan, Sales Manager BORUSAN, Gülseren Aytekin, Head of Sales Turkey BUHLMANN GROUP
IHK Düsseldorf award
Best trainee for BUHLMANN apprentice More than 5,000 apprentices and more than 1,400 continued training candidates sat their tests at the Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Industrieun d Han d elsk amm e r) in t h e 2013 /2014 training year. The former BUHLMANN apprentice Pascal Krautmacher was one of the best 261 apprentices, finishing with a ‚Very good‘ grade. The be st students in the examinations were honoured on 2 October in the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. Pascal Krautmacher travelled to the award ceremony accompanied by Thilo Wolfram, BUHLMANN GROUP‘s Education Manager – his cer tificate was handed over personally by IHK president Professor Dr. Ulrich Lehner. ‚After the ceremony we drove to our branch in Hilden, before I set off for a two-month
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trip to Dubai‘, said Pascal Krautmacher. T h e fo r m e r w h o le s ale , export and import merchant apprentice has been working at the BUHLMANN site in Hilden as Domestic Sales Assistant, after the apprentice ship duration was reduced to two years. In addition, he was given the opportunity to attend an overseas placement in Dubai with BUHLMANN Middle East FZCO. ‚I am very grateful to BUHLMANN for this experience. Overall, it is an extremely enjoyable and equally exciting year for me‘, Krautmacher sums up. Thilo Wolfram, Education Manager BUHLMANN GROUP (left), and Pascal Krautmacher, Assistant Sales - West BUHLMANN GROUP, were glad about the honor of the IHK
46th Power Station Engineering Colloquium Dresden
Dr. Axel Willauschus represents BUHLMANN GROUP On 14 and 15 October of this year the Congress Center Dresden was the arena for what was the 46th Power Station Engineering Colloquium. Dr. Axel Willauschus, Senior Manager Technical Services, and simultaneously representing BUHLMANN GROUP, was invited to be guest speaker. BUHLMANN GROUP‘s materials expert gave a presentation on the opportunities for a pipe materials service provider in the maintenance of power stations. In front of 90 attendees his talk generated a lot of interest in the Materials for Power Engineering stream, one of five
parallel specialist streams held at the congress. The predecessor of the Power Station Engineering Colloquium was the Power Station Conference held in the former German Democratic Republic. It has been held since the 1960s, initially in a two-year cycle, then annually. Today, at around 750 delegates, the colloquium is the largest of seven events around the country on the topics of power stations and power generation, such as the FDBR materials conference, the power station conference in Berlin or the VGB conference. The colloquium is organised by the
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90 listeners were interested in the talk of materials expert Dr. Axel Willauschus, Senior Manager Technical Services BUHLMANN GROUP
‚The energy revolution and its management, and the position of existing, conventional energy sources in the context of this change, formed the focal point of the plenary session‘, explains Dr. Axel Willauschus. Among the practical topics, the focus was on combustion techniques, increasing energy efficiency and official constraints.
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First order for North American shipbuilder
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A novelty for BUHLMANN GROUP: for the first time, the premium trading house has supplied a North American shipbuilder with P235GH carbon steel. The pipes, reducers, t-pieces, flanges and elbows were used in the conversion of the cruiser ‚Island Princess‘. The North American shipbuilder‘s order has a volume of more than 50 tonnes – and yet was still dealt with within a week and a half. The material was used for the water tanks and the diesel generators, among other things. ‚We held the order ready for collection by our customer in our warehouses in in Bremen, Duisburg and Hilden‘, said Marco Steffes, BUHLMANN GROUP‘s Manager Sales International Export West & America. The spare parts were required to EN standard format and were successfully supplied by BUHLMANN GROUP. Marco Steffes knows: ‚Many ships built in Europe, including this one, require materials
The BUHLMANN GROUP delivered more than 50 tonnes of material for the “Island Princess” (copyright: Princess Cruises) compliant with European standards. However, repairs or conversion work are often carried out in the Caribbean or in Florida, because of the more favourable weather
conditions among other reasons.‘ In addition to the Export West & America department with Marco Steffes and his colleague Nina Broschart, who dealt with order
picking in 48 hours, the Sales - North department carried out flanking action in terms of the special requirements of certification bodies.
Background
What is LNG? Liquefied Natural Gas, or LNG for short, is liquefied, extremely cold, natural gas. But why does one change the substance‘s state from gaseous to liquid? An attempted explanation. Natural gas turns to liquid, and thus to LNG, at temperatures lower than -162°C. During the cooling proce s s numerous impuritie s, which can damage the cooling units, are precipitated to prevent the cooling units from failing. In addition, up to 15 percent carbon dioxide collects and is also precipitated. But why? The answer lies in the liquid to gaseous expansion ratio. This is 1: 600 for LNG. In liquid form, natural gas therefore occupies 600 times less volume than as a gas! This allows large quantities
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LIQUID PHASE DELIVERY & STORAGE
Operating pressure: 0,1 - 0,3 bar
TRANSPORT & SUPPLY
Operating pressure: 0,5 - 1,0 bar
GAS PHASE CUSTOMER‘S FACILITY
Operating pressure: 2,0 - 3,0 bar
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Operating pressure: < 1,0 bar
How LNG gets to the customer
of energy to be transported over long distances and be stored in tanks. In an atmospheric vaporiser LNG is then converted back to a gaseous state. And LNG has another considerable advantage: Liquefied Natural Gas is ver y
economical and ef ficient. A s pure natural gas, consisting of almost 100 percent methane, it has an average calorific value of approximately 11.6 kWh per cubic metre. The use of LNG as a fuel – for example in shipping – has
continuously increased in recent years.
TUBE China 2014
BUHLMANN China Limited's third attendance From 27 until 29 September it was that time of year again: the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC) was the arena for TUBE China 2014. BUHLMANN China Limited was there for the third time. BUHLMANN GROUP was present in a prominent position at TUBE China 2014 in Shanghai, represented by its subsidiary company BUHLMANN China Limited. The fair booth was located close to the entrance, just as it was two years ago. It was well attended by visitors, potential customers and suppliers on all three days.
The BUHLMANN China Limited booth in the trade fair hall entrance
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NUKLEA in Grenoble
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BUHLM A NN Fr an ce S. A .S. represented BUHLMANN GROUP at NUKLEA, the nuclear power supplier industry exhibition. In Grenoble, France, 180 exhibitors p r e s e n t e d t o a r o u n d 3,0 0 0 interested visitors in early October.
Bustling activity at the exhibition stand of BUHLMANN France S.A.S.
OFFSHORE ENERGY in Amsterdam
First time for BUHLMANN GROUP For the first time BUHLMANN GROUP at tend e d O FF SH O RE ENERGY 2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as an exhibitor. From the point of view of the premium trading house the fair was very promising. Over 21,000 square metres of the Amsterdam RAI Fair and Congress Centre, everything revolved around the offshore industry on 27 and 28 October. BUHLMANN GROUP presented their commitment to the offshore market as one of more than 500 fair booth hosts. ‚To a c tiv ely e xchan g e vie w s
with industr y customer s and suppliers was ver y interesting and informative, and provided us with fresh impulses‘, summarises Rob e r t Bre s s e r, BUHLMANN GROUP ‘s Mana ging Dir e cto r BUHLMANN North America LP, Andy Michiels, Managing Director BUHLMANN Belgium PGmbH, Pierre Servais, Sales Assistant BUHLMANN Belgium PGmbH, and Ron Beenen, Director Sales Netherlands, were also available as contacts together with him.
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Had an actively exchange with industries of the branch: (left to right) Ron Beenen, Director Sales - Netherlands, Pierre Servais, Sales Assistant BUHLMANN Belgium PGmbH, Robert Bresser, Managing Director BUHLMANN North America LP, Andy Michiels, Managing Director Belgium PGmbH
FDBR materials conference in Düsseldorf Under the title of ‚Damage, qu a li t y a s s u r a n c e a n d n e w testing techniques‘ Fachverband Dampfkessel-, Behälter- und Rohrleitungsbau (FDBR) invited all interested specialists to the sixth FDBR materials conference. BUHLMANN GROUP was represented at this one-day event
Live communications with BUHLMANN GROUP 2015 Please find the dates for the fairs, conferences and forums at which BUHLMANN GROUP will probably be represented in 2015 on the card below.
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'We, the BUHLMANN GROUP, take social and corporate responsibility for all countries in which we operate. We want to bring about sustainable improvements for disadvantaged people in developing countries, as well as in the developed world, and thus make a positive contribution to developments in society globally.'
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24-25 March: FDBR conference in Magdeburg
4 November: FDBR materials conference in Düsseldorf 23-26 June : MIOGE in Moscow
6-8 October: TUBOTECH in Sao Paolo
Publisher Buhlmann Rohr-FittingsStahlhandel GmbH + Co. KG Arberger Hafendamm 1 28309 Bremen
Editor Ronald Speidel (legally liable for content)
[email protected] Contributors Alexandros Dimitriou Yonca Angay Mareike Winter
19-20 February: Oldenburger Rohrleitungsforum
Layout Thomas Westphal 27-28 October: gat in Essen
17-19 November: Stainless Steel World in Maastricht
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