Bulletin 1/2008 - Siempelkamp

By Dr Silke Hahn
SIEMPELKAMP | NUKLEARTECHNIK
New business division NIS Ingenie
Nuclear technical services at the hi
In October 1, 2007 the business division “NIS” of NUKEM Technologies, the French Nucléaire S.A. (ANSA),
its employees and all its assets were sold to Siempelkamp Nuleartechnik GmbH in Krefeld, Germany. The new
company is fully owned by Siempelkamp and operates idependently as “NIS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH”.
NIS, founded in 1969, offers a broad range
of products. In order to become an independent
expert for fuel element production,
NIS was separated from the
Hanauer nuclear facility at the end of the
sixties. Thus, it was possible for the company
to enter the market without any ties
to a particular manufacturer or product. In
the beginning, NIS was associated with the
energy service provider Lahmeyer AG. After
that NIS became a part of the RWE group
and then eventually a part of NUKEM. Since
October 2007, the company has belonged
to the Siempelkamp Group.
Competence spectrum with
farsightedness
At the end of the nineties, NIS started to
include products in their portfolio from outside
the classic field of nuclear technology.
These products included process informa-
tion systems, programming and data processing.
“It was and is our objective to be
state-of-the-art. We cannot achieve this
goal with products related only to
nuclear technology,” states Peter Hildwein,
managing director of NIS Ingenieurgesellschaft.
NIS expanded its portfolio
from planning fuel element applications
to engineering consulting to a classic
engineering and planning business.
One of NIS’ specialties is the implementation
of software-supported diagnostic
systems. The Condition Monitoring System
STUDIS provides precise online load
statistics for turbine generators, pumps and
drive units. The effect: “Next to the primary
tasks including condition monitoring, early
problem recognition, and fault analysis, the
system supports the operator in using his
equipment to an optimum, avoids undesired
operating conditions, and last but
Left: Reactor basin
Diving mould carrier
Right: Mould carrier MZFR-Karlsruhe
not least, helps to run the plant safely and
economically,” says Peter Hildwein.
A winning team with character
Not only the portfolio, but also the NIS personnel
have been enjoying a good reputation.
In German nuclear power plants NIS
teams are welcome specialists. This image is
based on a high and diversified degree of
education of the NIS employees and is the
result of good cooperation with nuclear
power plant operators. Our motto is based
on a “cooperative exchange of information.”
There is a permanent exchange
between the broad operational experience
of our team and our customers’. Energy
providers benefit from this network of
knowledge. After all, NIS is the perfect
link between power plants and their
administrative centers.