CPT International 02/2017

CLEANING, FETTLING & FINISHING
Ralf Paarmann, Burscheid
The future is big!
The potentials for improvement, however, is to be found in the small details, one could say. Although
northern Germans tend to be on the quiet side, one exception is located on the River Elbe.
Global Castings GmbH, in Stade, is developing at record speed and, although everything is consis-
tion
has taken place there in collaboration with blasting media producer Ervin Amasteel
The stage was set for growth when the
Danish Global Castings Group took
over the foundry of Casting Technology
Stade (CTS) in August 2014.
The production site now extends to
30,000 m² and the number of employees
has risen from 30 to 170. Casting at
Stade mainly consists of components
for offshore wind energy – workpieces
that weigh 20 to 60 tonnes each.
With two 40-tonne melting furnaces,
the company is designed for casting
and processing unit weights of up to
120 tonnes. These northern Germans
therefore rank among the true heavyweights
of casting technology.
Three times a month became
four times a day
As a result of its rapid development –
casting in Stade used to take place only
two or three times a month, but now
occurs three to four times a day – decisions
at Global Castings have to be
made quickly. “We do not take long
practising, we simply act,” explains
Marian Bienek, Production Manager
at Global Castings in Stade. Given
this drive, there was an immediate reaction
when the cleaning results for
the steel-casting giants no longer met
quality demands, necessitating laborious
and time-intensive post-processing
in Denmark before delivery. This
was not compatible with the company’s
straightforward philosophy.
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Among other things, the offshore windenergy
industry relies on high-quality cast
components produced by Global Castings
in Stade (Photo: Shutterstock)