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May 2015
News and information for customers
and business partners
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Working
together for
clean air
Photoment® at the
1st Pollutant Reduction Forum
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Building Stuttgart‘s
future
Strong lineup for
strategic growth
Pen design
with steament®
Use of fly ash at the Stuttgart 21 construction sites
STEAG Power Minerals sales
team reorganized
Classy ball pens
made with real fly ash
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Dear readers,
Since the beginning of this year, municipalities have been
threatened with heavy fines if they do not comply with the
limits for airborne pollutants. How great the pressure on many
cities to act actually is – and hence also how great the interest
in appropriate solutions is, was shown at the first “Forum on
Pollutant Reduction in Inner Cities with Heavy Traffic”: No less
than 200 participants from politics, administration and business
from almost all Federal states had accepted the invitation by
InnovationCity Bottrop. As an industrial partner of the event
STEAG Power Minerals, with the concrete additive Photoment®,
presented its contribution to permanently cleaner urban air –
and attracted a lot of interest with it. You can read a detailed
report on the Forum starting on page 6.
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Also in Stuttgart a major project of urban development is making
progress: in the construction of the new, underground central
rail station known as Stuttgart 21 the concrete suppliers are
relying on the competent and reliable support of Powerment
GmbH. This is because fly ash assures the decisive concrete
characteristics for use in the demanding Stuttgart subgrade.
Learn more about our contribution to Stuttgart 21 in our ‘Extra’
section starting on page 14.
Editor in chief
Sarah Höfer
Concept
Corporate Values GmbH / Sarah Höfer
Title picture:
The EU has imposed stringent limits
on nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution
levels which have to be complied
with by local authorities. At the “1st
Pollutant Reduction Forum” in
Bottrop, STEAG Power Minerals
presented their innovative additive
Photoment®, as a readily available
solution for the reduction of these
pollutants.
Contributors to this issue
Corporate Values GmbH
Anja Beer
Wolfgang Beer
Julian Brass
Mike Harke
Dr. Hans Hermann
Sarah Höfer
Carolina Jansen
David Korp
Dr. Michael Lichtmann
Jochen Pfitzner
Martin Pielke
Christian Utermark
Picture credits:
Title picture: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
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Pages 6-7: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
Pages 8-9: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
Page 10: Fertigbeton Rheinland GmbH & Co. KG, Hawar Power Minerals W.L.L.
Page 11: Vattenfall
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Page 14: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH, Aldinger+Wolf, Peter Wels
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STEAG GmbH
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and we look forward to your feedback on this issue of our
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The Board of Management of STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
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Page 20: Moreover, in this issue we also introduce to you our sales team
that, with a new structure as well as well-known and new,
experienced personnel, will in future push ahead our national
and international activities even more effectively – more on that
on page 22.
Andreas Hugot
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Contents
Contents
In Focus
In Brief
Special
STEAG World
News
Introducing ...
Page 6­– 9
Page 10–13
Page 14–19
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Page 21-25
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Better air quality in
traffic-congested cities
First Pollutant Reduction
Forum in Bottrop
Fertigbeton Rheinland proves its
environmental awareness Certified environmental
management system
Building Stuttgart‘s future
Use of fly ash at Stuttgart 21
construction sites
STEAG at E-world
Premier European trade fair of the
energy and water industries
More room to drive
Fly Ash for the Driving Range
in Sutton Coldfield
Experts in the field of
urban air quality
Interview with Prof. Dr. Dietmar Stephan
and Prof. Dr. Michael Bruse
Hawar Power Minerals
builds on stability
Solid growth in Qatar
‘At that time I did not expect such
a development’
Introducing:
Bernd Czoske (Managing Director
of Kremer Baustoffe und Transporte
GmbH & Co. KG)
Strong lineup for strategic growth
Reorganization of the sales team
Involvement will be expanded
Cooperation with the Dinslakener Tafel
food bank charity since 2013
Fly ash and boiler ash from
Moorburg find customers
all over Europe
Commissioning of the
Moorburg power plant
Pen design with steament®
Classy ball pens made with real fly ash
Broad spectrum of highly
professional laboratory services
Fuel analysis at the STEAG Power
Minerals Fuel Laboratory
A new system for TOP
process workflows
New SAP system implemented
Interactive
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First Pollutant Reduction Forum in Bottrop
Better air quality in traffic-congested cities
There was great interest in the topic: more than 200 decision makers – politicians, businesspeople
and public administrators – traveled to InnovationCity Bottrop in early March to attend the first
“Forum on Pollution Reduction in Inner Cities with Heavy Traffic.” The guests came from almost
all German states and heard lectures providing them highly up-to-date information on the topic of
air pollution in city centers. STEAG Power Minerals supported the event as industrial partner and
prepared a live demonstration which allowed the participants to convince themselves first hand of
the effectiveness of the pollutant-reducing concrete stone additive Photoment®.
In the context of climate change, public
awareness has long focused on CO2 emissions and the so-called CO2 footprints
of industrial goods and industrial processes
or services. At the Pollutant Reduction
Forum attention centered mainly on
nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Several years
ago the EU set stringent limits for this atmospheric pollutant, and since the beginning of 2015 applies sanctions when these
limits
are
exceeded:
municipalities
face penalties of as much as 50,000
euros per day. This concrete threat to the
public budgets certainly was one reason
why so many municipal decision makers
could be found in the audience. It
is a fact that in many traffic-congested
urban areas the maximum allowable
concentration of 40 µg NO2 per cubic
meter of ambient air (annual average)
is clearly exceeded. So what has to
be done?
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Local authorities under pressure to act
In spite of technical improvements
and exhaust emission standards, road
traffic is still the chief cause of NO2
pollution. Imposing still more regulations on private transportation than is the
case today – for example with 30 km/h
zones or driving bans – is not practicable,
however. Slowing traffic does not reduce
pollution substantially (by four percent at
most), and traffic closures are extremely
unpopular. Dr. Cornelia Wappenschmidt,
Head of the Air Pollution Control
Department of the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry for Climate Protection,
Environment, Agriculture, Conservation
and Consumer Protection, described
nitrogen dioxide as the currently biggest
air pollution control problem in cities
and stated in her talk: “The NO2 loads
definitely are still too high.” She called
for a package of measures including
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improved short-range mobility and urban
planning that allows vehicle traffic to flow
smoothly and avoids emission-intensive
stop-and-go operation. All those in
positions of responsibility must work
together more intensively here in future.
This suggestion was gladly taken up by
Dipl. Ing. Franz P. Linder, owner of the
agency P3 Agentur für Kommunikation
und Mobilität. In his visionary presentation
he described the city of the future as a
city of bicycles: “The bicycle will become
the prime means of transportation in the
urban context.” However, this is still far
from reality, and the current infrastructure
leaves much to be desired.
Clean city air thanks to Photoment®
If cities and municipalities are going to
have to invest in new infrastructures, then
they should concern themselves with
what such structures mainly are made
of: concrete. In his brief talk, Dipl. Ing.
Andreas Hugot, Managing Director at
STEAG Power Minerals, drew attention
exactly to that: “We must pay attention
to the stone surfaces,” he said.
“We seek to bring the solution to where
the problem lies.” The solution in this
case is the pollutant-reducing concrete
stone additive Photoment® developed by
STEAG Power Minerals and KRONOS,
Leverkusen. That this additive actually
is able to break down atmospheric NO2
was demonstrated not only during the
forum, in a sophisticated experimental
setup, but has been proven scientifically
on earlier occasion. Prof. Dr. Dietmar
Stephan from the TU Berlin (Building
Materials and Construction Chemistry
group) has analyzed Photoment® and
was able to graphically explain to his
listeners the interplay between titanium
dioxide (TiO2), fine-grained hard coal
fly ash and light in the process of the
decomposition of harmful nitrogen
dioxide. Under laboratory conditions,
30 to 35 percent of the nitrogen oxide is
degraded by Photoment®. Prof. Dr.
Michael Bruse reported on the transfer
of the laboratory results to the practical
field. His conclusion: even in an urban
environment Photoment® can distinctly
reduce nitrogen oxide pollution; a 12
percent reduction is realistic.
Good to know: Photoment® for
clean air and clean surfaces
Nitrogen oxides pollute the air we breathe
and soil the surfaces on which we move
about in our urban environment. Owing
to its photocatalytic effect, Photoment®
can decompose pollutants and keep surfaces clean. When light (the sun’s ultraviolet rays and visible light) falls on the surface of a concrete paving stone improved
with Photoment®, a reaction takes place:
health-damaging nitrogen oxides (NOx)
are converted into nonhazardous nitrate
(NO3-).
even used in the food industry – acts as a
photocatalyst in this process.
A welcome side effect of this reaction:
a superhydrophilic surface forms on the
Photoment® stones. Water can spread
especially well on such a surface and
undermine particles of dirt. That is to say,
the stones clean themselves; soiling is
simply washed off by the next heavy rain
shower. Moss and algae also have a hard
time adhering to Photoment® stones.
The titanium dioxide contained in Photoment® – titanium dioxide, incidentally, is a
harmless, well-known substance which is
Doubly effective: Photoment® paving stones clean the air and also clean themselves
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In Focus
The representatives of STEAG Power Minerals were pleased with
the strong interest shown by the specialist audience in Photoment®
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Electric mobility – a critical view
Any forum on the topic of pollution
reduction would be one-sided if the
topic of electric mobility were left out.
Prof. Dr. Saulo H. Freitas Seabra da
Rocha from the Hochschule Ruhr West
University of Applied Sciences in Bottrop
pointed out some interesting aspects:
whereas the use of electric vehicles does
not give rise to any direct pollution and
the city stays “clean,” the process of
manufacturing the vehicles continues
to produce CO2 on a rather substantial
scale.
Many projects that bring cities forward
At the beginning of the event, Bottrop’s
Mayor Bernd Tischler pointed out that
many methods are needed to achieve
the goal of an up-to-date, livable, healthy
urban environment. “Currently we are
at work on more than 100 different
projects in the InnovationCity,” he said.
They include the testing of Photoment®
on a large test surface in a particularly
critical area for NO2 in downtown
Bottrop. At the end of the forum,
Tischler also expressed the wish that the
experience gathered with InnovationCity
might provide important incentives
for development in other cities and
regions. Meteorologist and TV presenter
Sven Plöger, who played host at the
forum in his accustomed congenial
and professional manner, was visibly
impressed: “I am astonished at the
number of people who have come to
attend the pollution forum – one can
sense that this is an inspiring project. The
practical nature of the presentations, and
the amount of innovative thought that
has gone into them – everything from
cycle superhighways to veritable magic
stones that can extract pollutants from
the air – is intriguing.”
Dr. Heinz-Christian Krempels and TV presenter Sven Plöger
commenting on a live demonstration of pollutant reduction
by Photoment®
One building stone of the InnovationCity
From the laboratory to the road: in Bottrop’s city center the effect of Photoment® is being put
to the practical test in an area subject to strong pollution.
As reference surface, the sidewalk in the
area of the intersection of Essener Strasse
and Peterstrasse was converted into a
test section, since the air there is exposed
to heavy traffic pollution. Green spaces
already had been created on the middle
strip – at best, however, this merely permits
reducing the carbon dioxide load, not
nitrogen oxide pollution. All in all, Photoment®
paving stones were laid on a test area of
750 square meters.
Andreas Hugot, Managing Director
of STEAG Power Minerals, said during
the ground-breaking ceremony: “A simple
solution with a big effect and literally
a fine-looking building stone in the
success story that Innovation City is.”
And Mayor Bernd Tischler added: “One of
these stones cleans more than one cubic
meter of air in one hour. That is a great
achievement.”
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Anreas Hugot (Managing Director of STEAG Power Minerals), Burkhard Drescher (Managing Director of the
Innovation City management company) and Bottrop’s Mayor Bernd Tischler during the groundbreaking
ceremony for the Photoment® test area in Bottrop
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Interview
Experts in the field of urban air quality
What is the new additive capable of? SEGMENT wanted to find out exactly what and queried two
proven specialists about the mechanism of action and the practical usefulness of Photoment®:
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Stephan from TU Berlin (Building Materials and Construction Chemistry group) and
Prof. Dr. Michael Bruse, who studies the interaction between urban planning, microclimate and air
quality with his team at the University of Mainz.
SEGMENT: Prof. Dr. Bruse, what actually is necessary to
start the process of nitrogen oxide decomposition in a
Photoment® surface?
Bruse: Daylight and nothing else. The photocatalysis process
in stone surfaces treated with Photoment® is continuous and
self-sustaining. This means that the only thing necessary is exposure to light. And the Photoment® itself is not consumed – it is
merely the catalyst.
SEGMENT: Is it at all possible to degrade really significant
quantities of nitrogen oxide with this method?
Bruse: Yes, definitely. The quantities are relevant. We could
demonstrate this based on complex computer simulations. An
example: were we to cover an area the size of a football field with
Photoment® stones, per hour fully 17 grams of nitrogen oxides
could be removed from the city’s air – without expending a bit of
additional energy.
SEGMENT: Is there anything that urban planners must pay
special attention to if they want to work with Photoment®
stones?
Bruse: The microclimate and especially the air circulation in
an urban area are very complex due to the building density.
Basically, in this case we can only say that “a lot helps a lot”: the
more photocatalytically active surfaces you have, the better it is.
In addition, these surfaces must be exposed as often and as long
as possible to light – sidewalks, driveways and bicycle paths suggest themselves for application. But road surfaces or noise barriers and screen walls also are potential Photoment® applications.
SEGMENT: Prof. Dr. Stephan, you have subjected
Photoment® to exhaustive laboratory tests – is it really an
entirely new material?
Stephan: Yes and no. Titanium dioxide, one of the chief
components of Photoment®, has long been known and has
always been used, for example, in wall paints; it is the pure white.
The photocatalytic effect of titanium dioxide also is well known.
However, in wall paints precisely that effect was undesirable
because it makes the paints chalk – the binding agents dissolved
over time. The use of titanium dioxide in concrete also is not
entirely new; however, Werner Krohm, concrete technologist in the
employ of STEAG Power Minerals, is to thank for the fact that the
photocatalytically active titanium dioxide is very well distributed
in the paving stones and especially effective as a result. This
required quite a bit of development work, because the second
major component of Photoment®, hard coal fly ash, also must
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meet high demands. All elements must dovetail to properly
distribute the additive in the concrete so that it can develop its
full impact.
SEGMENT: Is the surface of a treated stone different than
that of a conventional stone? Does it feel different, for example, or is it more slippery?
Stephan: You will not be able to detect any difference with the
naked eye, and you won’t feel any difference. Neither is a Photoment® stone more slippery. The finely distributed titanium dioxide
can even trigger self-cleaning mechanisms on the stones which
facilitate the removal of dirt particles by water, and even substances such as spots of oil can be photocatalytically degraded.
There is also evidence that the settling of algae and mosses on
the stones is suppressed, reducing slipperiness.
SEGMENT: Prof. Dr. Bruse, Prof. Dr. Stephan – thank you
very much for your time!
They know and praise the properties of Photoment®: Prof. Dr. Stephan …
… and Prof. Dr. Bruse, presenting the practical benefits of the product in Bottrop
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In Brief
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Certified environmental management system
Fertigbeton Rheinland proves its environmental awareness
The workforce and the company
management
agreed:
everybody
wants to deal thriftily with energy and
raw material resources and at all times
work on reducing their consumption.
Fertigbeton Rheinland additionally
pledges to reduce the amount of
waste produced to a minimum and to
avoid harm to the environment by
hazardous substances or waterhazardous substances. These were
endeavors that reached their logical
consequence in an EN ISO certificate.
Since the end of October last year
Fertigbeton Rheinland GmbH & Co.KG
has been certified for the scope of
Production, Delivery and Conveying of
Ready-mixed Concrete and Masonry
Mortar according to EN ISO 14001
(FIZ-Cert 392/14). Hence it is the first
ready-mixed concrete producer in the
region and one of few constructionmaterial producers in the whole of
Germany that proves with certification
that environmentally aware handling of
ready-mixed concrete is possible - and in
fact from production as far as placement.
Reasons for the start of a certification
procedure were inquiries from customers,
in particular from the nearby Dutch sales
territory, but also from large construction
companies from within Germany. “Also
we and our environment benefit from
the introduction of ISO 14001,” says
Managing Director Frank Urbanek. “All of
the measures now taken also serve the
purpose of active health protection and
in future will protect physical integrity of
our employees, of the neighborhood and
customers as well as the general public.”
By now ISO 14001 has become an
integral part of the daily operations flow
of Fertigbeton Rheinland and ‘lived’
environmental management.
Fertigbeton Rheinland attaches great importance to the
conservation of natural resources in all its operations
In commercial operation since February: the first of two generating units at the Moorburg power plant
Solid growth in Qatar
Commissioning of the Moorburg power plant
Hawar Power Minerals builds on stability
Fly ash and boiler ash from Moorburg find
customers all over Europe
Set up a good one-and-a-half years
ago as a subsidiary of STEAG Power
Minerals and the Hawar Group,
Hawar Power Minerals’ mission is to
establish the power plant byproducts business in the Gulf region. The
intensive market development work
has begun to pay off: after supplying
a construction site of the Doha
Metro, Hawar Power Minerals now
makes deliveries to five customers
and is continuing to grow.
“Now the important thing is to stabilize
the business in Qatar and then participate in the construction boom that is taking
shape,” says managing director Jochen
Pfitzner. For the year 2015 he puts his targets in these words: “For Qatar, the central challenge concerns our capacity to
deliver and the efficiency of our logistics
rather than the acquisition of orders. At
the same time, thanks also to our parent
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company STEAG
Power Minerals
we have established initial contacts with potential customers in
Saudi Arabia and
Bahrain, which
should result in
orders before the
year is over.”
A new energy supplier is available to the German
electricity grid: on February 28, 2015, the first of two 827MW units at the hard coal fired Moorburg power plant took
up commercial operation. The commissioning phase and
trial operation were successfully completed before this. In
summer 2015 the startup of the second unit will follow.
The
product
portfolio
was
extended by mi- Left to right: Peter Rush, Jerald Dsouza, Naragajen Bharanidharan, Vincent Gomes
crosilica, a by- and Hawar Power Minerals’ Director Jochen Pfitzner
product from the steel industry. Hawar logistics specialist, an accountant and a
Power Minerals also has beefed up its driver. The driver is not a luxury, but a nestaff, but remains lean so as not to bur- cessity in a country where people still pay
den itself with too much overheads. In by check – which has to be personally
addition to managing director Pfitzner, collected and brought to the bank.
a small team looks after business in the
desert country: a commercial director, a
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As partner of the Moorburg power plant, which belongs to
the Vattenfall energy group, for STEAG Power Minerals a new
phase in the marketing of power plant by-products thus begins.
Deepwater makes it possible to remove most of the produced
fly ash and boiler ash in large-capacity seagoing ships and
deliver it to customers in other European countries.
A reliable source for the UK market
One of the main customers for boiler ash is the United Kingdom.
Peter Brennan, responsible for International Sales at STEAG
Power Minerals, is happy to be able to offer the British market
a reliable new procurement source. Although the power plant
must compensate for the increased infeed of energy when the
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wind blows strong, and can do this much more flexibly than
older coal-fired plants, Moorburg is expected to chalk up more
than 7,500 hours of operation annually. The reasons are the
high efficiency of 46.5 percent, which makes it one of Europe’s
most up-to-date plants, as well as the important role which
Moorburg already plays today for the stability of the grid in northern Germany. In a few years its importance will grow still more
when the last north German nuclear power plant in Brokdorf
ceases operation.
One of Europe’s most modern plants
Nigel Waldron, managing director of Power Minerals Limited,
headquartered in the UK, also is convinced that the new supply
of fly ash and boiler ash will help to cover the large requirements
of the concrete and cement industry in the UK.
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Fuel analysis at the STEAG Power Minerals Fuel Laboratory
New SAP system implemented
Broad spectrum of highly professional
laboratory services
A new system for TOP process workflows
Rapid workflows
Order management
Material flows management
Transparency Optimized processes
Simplified dispatch management
Broad spectrum: The Gladbeck-based laboratories of STEAG Power Minerals provide diverse laboratory services from a single source
For now two years STEAG Power Minerals has been in
charge of the operation of the former central coal laboratory
of STEAG GmbH at the Gladbeck location. The staff had been
enlarged and new equipment purchased. The premises
now also are up-to-date: the laboratory moved to a new
building on the grounds of MINERALplus GmbH.
The fuel laboratory is well positioned to face the future: in
addition to performing regular analyses of coal deliveries for the
STEAG power plants, the lab evaluates samples provided by
other power plant operators with testing methods accredited
to DIN EN ISO 17025. This accreditation affords yet another
advantage: the results can be used to calculate emissions in the
context of CO2 monitoring. Other laboratory services include:
samples preparation, calorific value assessment, proximate and
ultimate analysis, determination of wear parameters, grindability
and ash fusibility. The laboratory results are communicated
to the customer quickly and without having to be reentered:
thanks to electronic links, data can be transferred directly or
via an appropriate interface to the fuel management system
of the customers.
Experienced lab technicians, convincing services
The broad range of services provided by the STEAG Power Minerals
Fuel Laboratory is also indicated by the new name and reflected
in the lab’s daily analytical work: fuels other than coal also are
examined, for example torrefied biomass. Power generators
and other industrial customers can have various kinds of fuels
analyzed and can rely on the expertise of the experienced staff.
Every prospective customer gets an individual offer tailored to
his needs and requirements. Regular coal analysis and individual
tests also are included in the range of services, of course.
Incidentally, in the accredited Construction Materials Laboratory
that is likewise located in Gladbeck, STEAG Power Minerals
offers a wide range of materials tests and construction-related
tests both for the manufacturers of power plant by-products
and for suppliers and other interested parties.
Laboratory services of STEAG Power Minerals
Interested in our laboratory services? We have longstanding expertise to offer you. In
addition to our Fuel Laboratory we operate a Construction Materials Laboratory and
a Waste Analysis Laboratory. Contact us, we’ll be happy to advise you:
Contact:
Martin Pielke
Phone: +49 2064 608-319
Email: [email protected]
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Faster, better, more transparent: the
introduction of the completely new
SAP system within the scope of the
project Technology – Optimization
– Processes, ‘TOP’ for short, has
streamlined business processes. The
project was started already in 2013
aiming at being able to successfully
cope with the expected increase in
product
volumes, particularly in
volumes of fly ash and blasting
abrasives, resulting from the commissioning of new-build hard coal fired
power plants and the expansion of
international
business.
Originally
scheduled for early February, the
system now went ‘live’ in midMarch this year. In that way it was
to be insured that the start-up
proceeds as smoothly as possible.
Already in February the organizational
structure in the area of logistics designed
for the project was implemented – and
was at once also given a new name to
make allowance for the increasingly
international
orientation
of
STEAG
Power Minerals GmbH. The more German
coined term ‘Logistics/Material Flows
Management’ now became ‘Logistics‘
and in order to make the activities
clear the three new teams formed also
received corresponding designations:
order management is now called ‘Logistic
Strong networks
Back Office’, ‘Procurement of Logistic
Services’ becomes ’Logistics Sourcing’ and
’Logistics Distribution’ is the new name for
the dispatch management department.
These three new teams formed collaborate
on an interdisciplinary basis and as of the
due date successfully switched over to
the new process chain with a completely
renovated organizational structure.
Smooth handling of process chain
The aim of the changeover is the complete
consistency of the processes, starting
in the area of procurement and sales,
via logistics with the above-mentioned
elements of order management, purchase
of logistic services and finally dispatch
management as far as finalizing in the area
of accounts. For the smooth handling of
the process chain all of the links in the
chain must be present and interlock: first
all of the data are acquired electronically,
then dispatch management can trigger
the material movement and accordingly
generate PIN numbers, that is transportation and/or pick-up numbers, with
which the respective carriers can pick up
the goods and transport them to the customers.
Simplification and streamlining
What initially appears a little laborious
makes a lot of things simpler: an unambiguous transport number simplifies the
implementation of the material requirement
planning processes if the linking of material
supply sources has been carried out
electronically and upon the transfer
of the pick-up data finally billing can already
take place automatically. Naturally all of
these processes must first be practiced
and become attuned to one another, but it can now already be stated
that the more than two years of
development time have proved worthwhile.
With the installation of the new system
STEAG Power Minerals has taken an
important step in the direction of also in
future being able to reliably meet
customers’ requirements and wishes.
Uwe Rath, Managing Director of STEAG
Power Minerals GmbH, “We rely not only on
intensive customer orientation, strong
networks
and
personal
contacts,
but also strive for process excellence
in our company”.
Contact:
Head of Logistics:
Dr. Hans Hermann
Phone: +49 2064 608-294
Email:[email protected]
TOP Project Manager:
Mike Harke
Phone: +49 2064 608-234
Email: [email protected]
The most important innovations in an overview:
Introduction of a comprehensive customer management system (CRM)
Replacement of existing systems in the Blasting Abrasives business unit by SAP
Optimization of the dispatch management process for mass processes (approx. 90,000 transactions per year)
Outgoing invoices to customers are to a high degree prepared by automated means and dispatched by e-billing
Introduction of the credit memo procedure for shippers
Truck clearance in the Lünen blasting abrasives plant: linking of truck weighing machines to SAP and use of signature
pads for electronic receipt/voucher archiving
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Special
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The history of the overall project ‘Stuttgart
21‘ dates back to the 1980s – at that
time they already discussed how the
infrastructural efficiency of the constantly
growing greater Stuttgart-Ulm region could
be safeguarded for the future. Over
several years experts worked out the concept
that was presented to the public in 1994.
After the planning approval procedure that
had been underway since 2001 and the
agreement achieved in 2007 regarding the
financing, the construction work officially
started on February 2, 2010. According
to current plans, the new rail sections and
the underground rail station are to go into
operation in 2021.
Reality (top of page) and vision (bottom): The mammoth Stuttgart 21 urban development project is due for completion in 2021
Stuttgart 21
Building Stuttgart‘s future
Construction period of 11 years, more than 4.5 million cubic meters of concrete used – no current
construction project in Germany even approximates the dimensions of the transport infrastructure
and urban development project known as ‘Stuttgart 21’. The aim of the mammoth building
program: a future-proof and high-performance infrastructure for the city of Stuttgart and the
surrounding region. In the context of two construction measures which are of central importance
to the overall project – the new underground rail station under construction and the Bad Cannstatt
tunnel that will link local and long-distance traffic to the new station in the future – all of the companies
involved in the project were faced from the first day by the challenge of finding answers to
demanding technological and logistic questions. We visited the construction sites of both
measures for you and show you the central role that the fly ash from Powerment plays for the
forward-looking construction project.
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The overall Stuttgart 21 project comprises
a large number of intertwined large
construction measures that are intended
to make both long-distance traffic and
the inner infrastructure of Stuttgart fit for
the future. The advantages for the region
are multi-faceted: the newly constructed
Wendlingen-Ulm rail section will form part of
a new axis for German and European longdistance traffic. The Stuttgart rail terminus
will become a modern through station
that, with fewer tracks, will nevertheless be
markedly more efficient. Additionally, the
dismantling of the old track systems will
free up large areas for urban development –
right in the center of Stuttgart space for new
urban neighborhoods and parks is hence
obtained that will sustainably improve the
quality of life in the state capital.
Joint ventures pool technical know-how
A central role within the scope of the
overall project is occupied by the planning
approval section (PFA) 1.5: through
new tunnels, the long-distance transport trains coming from the direction of
Bad Cannstatt and Feuerbach will be
routed into the new underground
rail station. Additionally also for the
Stuttgart suburban rail system a
new tunnel is being built that leads
underground, from a new bridge to be
constructed over the Neckar, to the
new central station. In order to master the
complex challenges during the construction
of the Bad Cannstatt tunnel, the companies
of Hochtief Infrastructure, Wayss + Freytag
and BeMo Tunneling formed a joint
venture in which the necessary capacities
Stuttgart 21 in figures
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construction sections in Stuttgart’s inner city
and in the greater region.
2,500,000
m3
Approx.
of concrete will be used in the Stuttgart 21 project;
for the new rail section Wendlingen-Ulm another
2,000,000 m3 will be used.
17,000
new jobs
in the region will be created by the project (10,000
permanently, 7,000 during the construction phase).
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In total a construction period of about
years is expected.
120
kilometers of new rail lines are
being laid.
8,000,000
More than
inhabitants of Baden-Württemberg live in the catchment
area of the new construction project and hence benefit
from Stuttgart 21.
18,000,000
car journeys per year will be saved
that implies an annual CO2 saving of
70,000
approx.
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hectares of downtown Stuttgart can
be redeveloped due to the dismantling
of the old track systems.
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Special
and the technological know-how for the
construction process were pooled.
In search of an efficient partner that can
meet the high demands made on the
concrete qualities, the joint venture for
construction of the PFA 1.5 section found
one directly in the region: together with
Mobil Baustoffe, a Munich-based company
specializing
in
supplying
concrete,
annular gap grouting mortar and tubbing
segments for major projects around the
world, Godel Beton, the market leader in
the central Neckar Valley region supplying
major projects throughout Germany with
concretes of every quality, formed a joint
venture that supplies all of the concretes
for construction section 1.5 – in total the
joint venture will supply this section alone with a good 600,000 m3 of concrete.
Godel Beton has been purchasing fly ash
from Powerment since 2011 – and it is exactly this fly ash that plays a decisive role in
the construction of the Bad Cannstatt tunnel.
Since already at an early stage in the planning
of the PFA 1.5 it was established that for the
construction of the tunnels special concrete
technology-related challenges would have
to be mastered. The non-leached-out gipskeuper (so-called anhydrite), that is typical of
Stuttgart’s geology, is a difficult underground
that in the event of the ingress of water gains
up to 60% in volume. In that way enormous
forces develop that act on the new tunnel
Special
structures – the demands made on the
concretes to be used were therefore multifaceted and complex right from the start.
Highest demands on used
concrete mixtures
In order to meet the high demands made
on the concretes, the concrete joint
venture decided in favor of an unusual
solution: both for the shotcrete that is used
for the first shuttering of the tunnel during
heading and for the construction concrete
that will form the inner shell of the tunnel,
concrete mixes with a very high fly ash
content are used. The reason is that due to
the Stuttgart subsoil containing anhydrite,
for the tunnel construction depending on the
condition of the soil present, concretes are
required that must show a high degree of
resistance to sulfate attack (exposure class
of concrete according to DIN EN 206-1/DIN
1045-2 XA (chemical attack)).
The solution found for the construction of
the Bad Cannstatt tunnel was that by the
addition of large proportions of fly ash the
same resistance to sulfates is achieved as
can otherwise only be achieved by the use
of specific special cements. Stephan Godel,
Managing Director and owner of Godel
Beton, explains: “In a normal case we would
have had to keep the most varied cements
in readiness during the construction process
which would then have been used depending
on the geological situation. With the solution
now found, i.e. with the massive use of fly
ash, the same mix is always used, naturally
making logistics considerably easier. This
solution is not usual; normally little to no fly
ash is used in the shotcrete.”
Decisive role for fly ash
The fly ash supplied by Powerment also
reveals its strengths at other places in the
Stuttgart 21 project. For example, also for
the construction of the trough building
structure for the new underground rail
station fly ash containing concrete from
Godel is used, but for quite different reasons:
as the addition of fly ash ensures a slow
development of heat in the setting concrete,
it is used here in order to prevent cracks in
the floor slabs of the trough which are up
to 2.50 m thick. Thomas Hauser, Project
Manager of Ed. Züblin AG, the company
responsible for the construction of the
underground rail station, explains: “Concretes with a lot of cement – above all mass
concretes – develop a high hydration heat
that can also lead to cracks in the concrete
and this heat can be significantly reduced by
replacing cement by fly ash.”
Collaboration with Powerment already
since 2011
To be able to reliably supply the enormous
quantities of concrete that are required,
Godel Beton has set up a mobile batching plant
close to the construction site that is operated
24 hours a day 365 days a year and at peak
The shotcrete mixture of the
Bad Cannstatt tunnel in detail:
Cement:
CEM I 52. 5 N (Sp) HeidelbergCement 375 Kg /m³
Additive: Powerment hard coal fly ash 095 Kg /m³
Fine aggregate: Rhine sand
470 Kg /m³
Fine aggregate: Crushed sand from shell lime
240 Kg /m³
Coarse aggregate: Crushed shell lime
890 Kg /m³
Admixture: 3.5 Kg /m³
Godelfluid
Water/cement ratio: 0.50
Thomas Hauser (Ed. Züblin AG) explaining the
progress of work on the trough structure of the
underground rail station
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Special
times can handle up to 10 concrete
vehicles per hour. The company’s founder
Stephan Godel smilingly states: “We
produce round the clock with the best people
available for the best customers around.”
Stephan Godel can easily justify his decision
in favor of Powerment: “When we decided
on the use of fly ash in our concrete
formulations, we no longer asked ourselves
for long with whom we would do it. Godel
Beton has been purchasing fly ash from
Powerment since 2011. Regarding use of
the raw material fly ash the factors quality, security of supply and reliability as
well as the understanding of the final product concrete are very much decisive for
the selection of the right supplier. This
applies all the more to these prominent
projects. Therefore it was easy for us to
decide to rely on Powerment also for
these major projects.”
Special
Security of supply by means of
efficient logistics
David Korp, Head of Sales at Powerment
GmbH, stresses the importance of the
partnership for his company: “Stuttgart
21 is naturally a gigantic topic for us as
Powerment – the demands made on quality
and availability of the fly ash are unique. That
is why we have devoted a lot of effort to
securing the supplies. For the preparation
of the supply concepts we have thought
through and made allowance for the most
varied options in order to be capable of
providing solutions even in tense situations.
Besides buffering, also the supply of
qualitatively comparable products from the
Ruhr can be a short- or medium-term
solution. What is decisive is that the
products, if at all possible, are available in
a sufficient quantity with reference to the
necessary quality specifications at the right
time in the right place. We take a lot of trouble
to understand the customer’s requirements
and to implement them fast. For us every
customer is equally important. At the end of
the day this surely all tipped the balance for
our partner Godel Beton to decide in favor
of fly ash and us.“ Korp looks forward with
confidence to the tasks for Powerment over
the coming years: “We have continuous
quality monitoring, we are constantly
expanding our silo capacity that we can use
for fly ash. In addition we have the possibility of
transshipping large quantities of fly ash via
our silo terminals linked to waterways and of
bringing them onto the South German market
if the need should arise – the security of supply
is therefore safeguarded, given the current
general conditions. Nevertheless, it should
be kept in mind that fly ash is a by-product
from power generation and that Powerment
has no direct influence on the ash volumes
produced by the power plants in these times
of the turnaround in energy policy.“
A brief profile of Godel Beton
Godel Beton has already been in the market since 1991. In 21
years of business activity the owner Stephan Godel has been
able to develop his company into a regional market leader and
a concrete specialist active throughout Germany. Godel supplies
construction projects of every size throughout Germany with
ultra-high-performance concretes and employs a total of 220
persons up to 20% of whom are working on the Stuttgart 21
project. In total, Godel will supply the Stuttgart 21 project as far as
into 2019 with about 1,000,000 m3 of concrete – of this quantity
a good 500,000 m3 will be used in the Bad Cannstatt tunnel and
about 300,000 m3 for the construction of the new underground
rail station.
Godel Beton are producing about 1 million cubic meters of concrete
for the Stuttgart 21 project
The concrete batching plant mixes enough concrete for 10 vehicles per hour,
24 hours a day
A brief profile of Powerment GmbH
Formed in 2010, Powerment GmbH has developed within a
very short time into a much sought-after partner of the fuel and
building material industry in South Germany. The 50 percent
subsidiary of both STEAG Power Minerals GmbH and
EnBW
Energie Baden-Württemberg AG markets power
plant by-products from hard coal-fired power plants to the
construction material industry. Thanks to supply contracts
with numerous power plants located mainly in South Germany, the company has very good access to the
relevant raw material sources. Apart from a well-developed
logistic network that leverages transport by truck, inland
waterway vessel and rail, Powerment has the necessary knowhow to continuously supply to complex major projects and to
reliably support all of the customers.
Powerment has been collaborating with Godel Beton since late
2011. In total, the company based in Ettlingen will supply up to
70,000 tons of high-grade fly ash for the various construction
projects of the overall Stuttgart 21 project.
The construction firms bank on the benefits of fly ash both during tunnel heading work and for the trough structure of the rail station
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Left to right: Stephan Godel (Managing Director of Godel Beton), David Korp
(Head of Sales at Powerment) and Andreas Boettcher (Project Manager of the
Arge Tunnel Cannstatt S21 joint venture)
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STEAG World
News
Premier European trade fair of the energy and water industries
Fly ash for the driving range
Contacts, talks, discussions:
STEAG at E-world
More room to drive
It’s the leading European trade fair of the energy and water supply industries: for the fifteenth time now
the energy supply industry met in Essen and discussed solutions relating to generation, efficiency,
trading, transport, storage, smart energy and green technologies. STEAG presented themselves at
“E-world energy & water” with a new stand design – and enjoyed great success.
Open, transparent and easy to access – that about sums up
STEAG’s new trade fair stand concept. It went down well with
visitors and guests: “We received a great deal of positive feedback on our new, more open stand design. The contacts and the
talks we had were of a high quality and even exceeded last year’s
figures. We are especially pleased that we were able to place
three STEAG speakers in the supporting program again this year:
Udo Wichert, Managing Director of STEAG Fernwärme, Dr. Markus Laukamp, the Managing Director of STEAG New Energies,
and Daniel Lehmann, Project Engineer STEAG Energy Services,”
says Dr. Jürgen Fröhlich, press spokesman of STEAG GmbH.
High-profile visitor on Day One
On the first day of the fair, Peter Knitsch, State Secretary in
the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture,
Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North
Rhine-Westphalia, dropped in on the E-world team. He took a
particular interest in the topics “power-to-fuel” and “virtual power
plant.” STEAG’s Dr. Wolfgang Benesch, Head of Research and
Development, and Thomas Ciecierski, Head of Load Dispatch
and Trading, were on hand to talk to the Secretary.
A treat and a get-together on Day Two
Before wine grower Mr. Petgen-Dahm personally conducted a
little tasting session with first-class Moselle wines on the evening
of the second fair day, Joachim Rumstadt, Chairman of the
Management Board, welcomed the attending colleagues and
guests. In a brief speech he emphasized that in the face of the
current trend STEAG had been able to market its power plants
on the Rhine and Ruhr rivers and in the Saarland successfully.
For the future, he said, innovative projects like the large-scale
battery storage system “LESSY” at the Völklingen-Fenne site or
the “Power-to-Fuel” project in Lünen point the way forward.
Contacts in the energy trading sector deepened
The Markets unit also was happy about STEAG’s successful
presentation at E-world. “Our expectations were fully met. We
had the opportunity to present our company with its entire family
of business units and were able to extend and deepen important
contacts with market partners and customers particularly in the
area of energy trading,” says Melanie Grimm. A customer event
on the eve of the fair was also a point on the agenda. At the
Walsum power station information was shared about
“efficient coal-fired power plants as part of the turnaround in energy
policy.” The participants were impressed both by the choice of
topics, the possibility for detailed discussion, and the choice of
the venue, including a tour of the power plant. Owing to the favorable response to its appearance at the trade fair, STEAG already
is looking forward to E-world 2016.
For the optimised 300 by 120 meter driving range ...
... some 90,000 tons of moist fly ash were emplaced.
No one is born a golfer, so our advice: practice driving!
This and other golfing techniques usually are practiced on
a driving range, a stretch of grass at least 130 metres in
length. On particularly large driving ranges one can hit the
ball from opposite sides of the range; in this case, for safety reasons the range must have a length of at least 300 metres. Such a 300 by 120 metre site now has been created
for the Aston Wood Golf Course in Sutton Coldfield – with
fly ash from Power Minerals Ltd.
A total of 100,000 tons of material moved
During the most intensive construction phase Power Minerals
emplaced up to 1,500 tons of fly ash each day. When the site
layout was complete and the drainage put in place, the layers of
soil – to which another 10,000 tons of topsoil was added – were
put back in place. Then a special high-grade lawn seed selected
by the golf club management was sown.
A lot of material had to be moved: First, the topmost layers of soil
were removed and some 90,000 tons of moist fly ash placed.
Power Minerals was responsible for hauling the fly ash to the golf
course from the storage areas of the Rugeley Power Station, 18
kilometres distant, as well as for emplacing and compacting the
ash. The drainage work was handled by a specialised subcontractor – it had been the drainage that had given rise to problems
until Power Minerals decisively improved the site to allow use all
year round.
The “E-world energy & water”
fair in a nutshell
The trend points upwards: the premier European trade
fair of the energy and water industries continues to
grow. This year even more exhibitors came to Essen;
their number increased by 20 to 640. As in the previous
years, the energy policy turnaround was the dominant
theme of the 2015 E-world energy & water, which was
able to welcome more than 24,000 trade visitors.
Industry professionals found a range of information at STEAG’s spacious stand
at the E-world trade fair
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The project was carried out without interrupting the running operations of the club – despite the fact that the ash had to be transported across the fairway of the first hole. Power Minerals Ltd.
managed to satisfy everyone: the owner and management team
of Aston Wood Golf Club, the members and the local residents
and the local environmental office expressed approval of the planning and safe implementation on the part of Power Minerals
Ltd. Lastly, negotiations on further improvements to the golf facility are currently in progress.
Further information:
Julian Brass
Phone: +44 121 321 3416
Email:[email protected]
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News
News
Reorganization of the sales team
Strong lineup for strategic growth
The Sales unit of STEAG Power Minerals led by Wolfgang
Beer is reorganizing itself on the international level
in order to satisfy the globally increased demand
for fly ash and boiler ash more efficiently and on a larger scale
than before. Besides staff changes, mainly new sources waiting to be tapped as well as reinvigorated overseas markets
play a significant role in the effort. National sales continue to
be served by the seasoned and successful team.
With Peter Brennan and Nils Jansen, two new, yet well-established
people will be responsible in future for the operations of the International Sales unit of STEAG Power Minerals. While Brennan is taking
over the position in addition to his function as Director of Power
Minerals Limited, headquartered in the United Kingdom, Nils Jansen
is switching from the Business Development unit to Sales. When the
new management duo talks about global potential, they quickly get
to talking about the US market. “The cement industry in the USA
now virtually has regained the level it had reached prior to the financial crisis,” says Jansen.
The company has been active internationally for many years; with
the new sales structure, however, the foundations have been laid for
the strategic expansion of the worldwide activities. During the last
two years, STEAG Power Minerals, jointly with the strategic partner
ZAG International as sales arm, already created the basis for a
successful involvement in the US business. The potentials developed
in this way now can be exploited by the company more than
successfully, also thanks to new sources of fly ash: during the past
winter months, initially three shiploads of 44,000 tons each were
scheduled to cross the Atlantic, while now at least six will be heading for the US. “We also assume the role of service provider for
subsidiaries and other disposers of power plant by-products,
including by-products from foreign power plants,” Brennan explains.
National contacts unchanged, new back office supports
Sales teams
The National Sales unit continues to bank on tried and tested
structures. Dr. Michael Lichtmann, deputy head of power plant
by-products Sourcing and Sales, continues to look after the regions
West and Central; Michael Chemnitz is responsible for the region
North, and thus also for the new power plant in Moorburg, and
Andreas Helmig continues to be responsible for the marketing
of Photoment. Bernd Knösing is the contact for the region East,
and additionally acts as managing director of the Polish subsidiary,
STEAG Energo Mineral – which puts him in a position to obtain
new sources of procurement for STEAG Power Minerals in Eastern
Europe. The National Sales team has long since begun to look
beyond the German market, which is becoming more and more
interlocked especially with the Polish and Czech markets.
International Sales team:
“We intend to exploit the global potentials in the area of
power plant by-products with a more strategic approach
and so grow internationally in a concerted and sustained
fashion.”
Organizational assistance is provided to the national and international
sales teams by the newly created Sales Support group, consisting
of Birgit Zalesiak, Kilian Weigand and Melanie Totzke. They play
a coordinating role between the field service and other internal
departments. “With the new team, which provides strong support in
the area of, inter alia, sales planning and has taken over sales controlling, structurally we are perfectly well positioned to advance our
growth in a well-targeted and efficient way,” says Beer.
National Sales team:
“The German cement market, in particular, still offers
opportunities for national growth. Beyond that, we no
longer can concentrate our attention solely on the
developments in Germany since the markets increasingly
are becoming intermeshed across national frontiers.”
Short news
Standardization news
At the meeting of the DIN Standards Committee (NABau
Arbeitsausschuss) 005-07-02 AA ‘Concrete Technology’ on
December 17, 2014, the comments received on the draft of E DIN
1045-2:2014-08 were the subject of consultations. These were
partly very controversial. The result was that the so far formulated standard concept for concrete on the basis of EN 206-1/DIN
1045-2 is reaching its limits. That standard draft will no longer be
followed up.
In a new concept, comprehensive and consistent stipulations of
component-specific demands made on planning, construction
materials, execution and quality assurance are to be formulated. In
this context, the DAfStb (German Committee for Reinforced Concrete) was requested to coordinate a round-table discussion with
the areas of planning, construction materials and execution and to
take on the pre-standardization work. A second draft of DIN 10452 is to be prepared.
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Hence for a transition period for DIN EN 206:2014-07 no national
application rule exists and thus the European concrete standard
is therefore not applicable. Under these circumstances, until the
publication of a new DIN 1045-2 the old rules of “DIN EN 2061:2001-07 (incl. the amendments) in conjunction with DIN 10452:2008-08” with all of the associated German Committee for Reinforced Concrete (DAfStb) guidelines will remain in effect, also for
building supervisory purposes.
The notification from the German Committee for Structural
Concrete (DAfStb) on E DIN 1045-2:2014-08 can be found at:
Further information:
Dr. Michael Lichtmann
E-Mail: [email protected]
May 2015
Sales Support team:
“Strategic growth is achievable only through efficient
planning and continuous controlling. With comprehensive
preparation and follow-up of sales activities we create
structures for the successful work of our colleagues in
field sales.”
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News
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Many helping hands – among them also staff members of STEAG Power Minerals …
… worked to make Christmas an unforgettable experience for the
children of the Dinslakener Tafel food bank charity
Volunteers of the Tafel working with dedication to prepare the children’s Christmas party
Cooperation with the Tafel food bank charity since 2013
Writing instrument for the fans of concrete
Involvement will be expanded
Pen design with steament®
The cultural advancement of children should not be dependent upon
income or family background. STEAG
Power Minerals concurs with this approach of the regional theater Burghofbühne Dinslaken and also sponsors the children’s club which the
theater has initiated for the current
theater season 2014/2015.
STEAG Power Minerals and the Burghofbühne theater have been in regular
contact since 2013. Both are partners of
the Dinslakener Tafel food bank charity
and support that nonprofit group mainly
during the Advent season to provide
some very pleasant moments to lowincome families and their children.
As in 2013, last Christmas the employees
of the company in Dinslaken, Gladbeck
and Lünen again showed their willingness
to help and donated no less than 450
kilograms of food to the charity – and
many lovingly wrapped gifts to boot.
Santa Claus himself distributed these gifts
to more than 80 overjoyed children during a lighthearted Christmas party at the
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Tenterhof barn, where the Burghofbühne
presents its plays. Before the presentation
of the gifts, the visitors of the celebration,
for which the charity, Burghofbühne and
STEAG Power Minerals again extended
a joint invitation, amply enjoyed the cozy
atmosphere at the former stud farm: a
campfire, atmospheric lighting, Christmas
sounds and, of course, a short play staged
in the hayloft made this pre-Christmas
evening an unforgettable experience for
grownups and youngsters.
Equally unforgettable for many an eight- to
twelve-year-old will be the feeling of
standing on a proper theater stage as
an actor for the first time and performing
before a big audience. This will be made
possible by the children’s club, one of a
total of four offers made by Burghofbühne
for stagestruck persons of all ages.
Since March the young actors have been
writing their own play and rehearsing
for the first performance, which will
take place sometime this year. They are
expertly guided and assisted in their
efforts by trained drama educators. “With
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the children’s club the Burghofbühne
offers the younger generations in Dinslaken
the opportunity, previously unavailable,
to develop their creativity and express
themselves artistically,” says Sarah Höfer,
Head of Marketing & Communications at
STEAG Power Minerals. “We feel, as does
the Burghofbühne, that such an offer
should be open to all children regardless
of the parents’ financial means. For this
reason we have decided also to sponsor
the Burghofbühne children’s club.” And
who knows: perhaps the young actors
will awaken the interest of others of their
age when they give their first public performance this year.
Not everyone is aware of the many
things that can be made using
concrete. But even those who know a
lot about the material will not hit upon
pens so quickly. And yet it fits well
in your hand, has a pleasant surface
and looks great: the Concrete Pen is a
high-quality writing instrument made
of concrete.
To produce these stylish writing
instruments, above all one thing is absolutely necessary: steament ® fly ash. It
alone permits obtaining a grade of concrete for the pen that creates a surface
of especially high quality – i.e. gives it
a good, pleasant grip – along with the
prerequisites for laser engraving. The
Concrete Pens are the ideal gift for
customers on any occasion and look
good on a desk or, for example, on
exhibition stands. Anyone whose
specialty is concrete technology will be
thrilled and should find a suitable pen
among the six colors, which include
classic concrete gray. The Colored
Concrete Pens are a further example of
the variety of uses to which fly ash can
be put in concrete technology.
Win one of three original Concrete
Pens for your desktop!
Simply answer the following question:
Which STEAG Power Minerals product is
indispensable for producing the Concrete
Pens? Send your answer via email to:
[email protected],
Re: Concrete Pen.
Further information about the Concrete
Pens is available online:
www.concretepenfactory.com
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A solid eyecatcher: The Concrete Pen with steament®
is more than just a writing instrument
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Introducing ...
Mr. Czoske, you grew up in Dortmund at a time when the
collieries still clearly characterized the urban and work images
of the entire region. Your early professional link with a
byproduct of hard-coal combustion therefore seems only
logical. Is that really the case?
Bernd Czoske: No, that was absolute coincidence. Before the
final examinations in my business administration study program I
served an internship with a company in Dortmund that occupies
itself with the utilization of power plant byproducts. To be honest,
at that time the product fly ash that was commonly regarded as
waste did not mean much to me.
The East European market is becoming increasingly
attractive for German companies. How do you assess the
potential and what are the challenges with which you have
so far been confronted there?
Bernd Czoske: Undoubtedly Eastern Europe is the fly ash
market of the future. There are still great potentials there that can
be utilized. That is due above all to the fact that fly ash has not yet
become as established as a construction material additive as it
has in Western Europe. However, for involvement in the Eastern
European market you have to adapt to different cultural situations
and should be aware that the market in many respects has not
reached a Western European level everywhere.
Nevertheless you started your professional career in this
sector.
Bernd Czoske: Correct. And in fact on precisely March 13, 1975
in that Dortmund company. I have not forgotten the date up to
the present day. Yet even in the time following that I developed
doubts regarding the future prospects facing me there and I
seriously thought about changing sectors. At that time I did not in
my wildest dreams anticipate the development that fly ash then
underwent up to the present day.
40 years later we know that you remained loyal to the
business with fly ash and had first-hand experience of this
development. What in your view were the most striking
changes in the past decades?
Bernd Czoske: The reputation of the product fly ash has completely
changed. In the early days we had to appear as supplicants and
tried with lots of patience and persuasiveness to sell our product.
Today we are sought-after suppliers of construction material
additives who are faced with the growing challenge of meeting our
customers’ high demand.
‘At that time I did not expect such
a development’
It was 40 years ago that Bernd Czoske first came into contact professionally with the product
fly ash – and initially doubted its future viability. Yet he remained loyal to the sector up to the
present day. Last year the native of Dortmund celebrated his 25 year long-service anniversary
as the Managing Director of Kremer Baustoffe und Transporte GmbH & Co. KG, a 50-percent
subsidiary of STEAG Power Minerals. He talked with SEGMENT about the changed perception
of fly ash, about developments and forecasts for the future.
You have been working for Kremer Baustoffe for 26 years.
How did this change become manifested there?
Bernd Czoske: The company can, in comparison to my start
there in 1989, no longer be recognized. Cement and construction
materials trading in which the company was active and successful
for a long time, as well as the associated vehicle fleet were
completely eliminated. Today we concentrate wholly and
completely on trading in fly ash – and that very successfully thanks
to a strong and committed team.
Your company has been very active in the Czech market for
a long time. How did that come about?
Bernd Czoske: Due to decommissioning of power plants in
Germany we lost important sources of supply. Since at that time all
of the sources in Germany had long since been allotted, we had to
look around for alternatives abroad. As I had established good and
extensive contacts with Czechia after 1988 and I know my way
around the country due to numerous business trips, it was logical
to try to find new raw material sources there. That decision was for
us absolutely right, since today we achieve 50 percent of our sales
with fly ash from the Czech Republic.
Personal details:
From Franconia always having an eye on developments in his “old homeland”
26 years ago Bernd Czoske moved for professional reasons away from the Ruhr to the
Franconian town of Zeil am Main. For his wife and him the town with very nearly 5,600
inhabitants has long since become a new homeland. For his three children who grew up
here, in any case. Nevertheless, the 65 year-old up to the present day has very intensively
followed the development and structural change in his “old homeland”, as he calls
Dortmund today. And for one other reason his heart is warmed a little when there is talk
about the city of his birth: in Franconia, dominated by the football club FC Bayern, Bernd
Czoske and his wife, as passionate BVB fans, remain loyal to the “Black and Yellows“.
Clearly visible for everyone thanks to the flagpole in the garden and a club emblem cast
in concrete in the driveway.
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my sports-crazy buddy Jupp came by last Sunday after a veterans soccer game to
have a beer – und what do I see when he grins at me? A good-sized gap in his front
teeth! Right in the middle, both incisors pulverized by full contact with an opponent’s
elbow. Too bad that Jupp hadn’t put much value on supplementary dental insurance
before. Now, where he needs it badly, the insight comes a little late, unfortunately. On
the other hand it’s good he has me as a friend. Because as we sit together on my nice
stone patio, I suddenly get a brilliant idea. Why not simply pour a set of new teeth in
concrete? With fly ash in them they’d be three times as sturdy as any gold tooth. And
to put the cherry on the cake, we’ll add a pinch of Photoment. That way his teeth not
only will remain sparkly white, Jupp will always get a fill of properly cleaned air, too.
And on top of that he can skip going to the dentist’s. Because if he has any problems
with his stone teeth, I’ll be happy to go over them with a Dremel tool.
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STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
Duisburger Straße 170
46535 Dinslaken
Germany
www.steag-powerminerals.com
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correct entries, the winners in the draw
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50997 Köln
Germany
Triftweg
39418 Staßfurt
Germany
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Transporte GmbH und Co. KG
Bohemia Popilek Union s.r.o
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W. L. L.
Hauptstraße 32
97475 Zeil am Main
Germany
www.kremer-zeil.de
Karlovarská 5329
CZ 430 01 Chomutov
Czech Republic
www.bpu.cz
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46 South Parade
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B72 1QY
United Kingdom
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ul. Kolejowa 57
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Poland
www.energomineral.pl
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in penalty payments per day of
violation of the limits may be assessed
against cities and local authorities
an Strafzahlungen drohen Städten und
Kommunen bei Nichteinhaltung
der Grenzwerte pro Tag
40µg
of nitrogen oxides can be decomposed in
one hour by a Photoment® surface of the
size of a soccer pitch
Stickoxide kann eine Photoment®-Fläche
von der Größe eines FIFA-Fußballfelds
pro Stunde abbauen
Dieselfahrzeuge (Euro 5)
Diesel vehicles (Euro 5)
94
of the monitoring stations of the German Federal Environmental
Agency have recorded NO2 levels that exceed the limits
42%
der Messstationen des
Umweltbundesamtes zeigen eine
Überschreitung der NO2-Grenzwerte
per m3 on a daily average is the limit applicable
throughout the EU for the NO2 levels
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pro m3 ist der EU-weit gültige Grenzwert für die
NO2-Belastung im Tagesmittel
17g
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in an urban environment
50 000 €
12%
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Number of vehicles whose NOX emissions on a road of 1 kilometer length with sidewalks paved
with Photoment® paving stones are neutralized in one hour by the effect of Photoment®
Anzahl der Fahrzeuge, deren NOX-Ausstoß von einer 1 Kilometer langen Straße, deren Bürgersteige mit
Photoment®-Pflastersteinen ausgelegt sind, in einer Stunde durch Photoment® neutralisiert wird
Benziner (Euro 5/6)
Gasoline vehicles
(Euro 5/6)
283
Dieselfahrzeuge (Euro 6)
Diesel vehicles (Euro 6)
212
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