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Contents 3 Editorial Contents The company 4 IFAT 2008 – The industry‘s big event 6 Cast iron veins to carry some of the lifeblood of Berlin- Brandenburg International Airport 8 Small hydroelectric generator station at Winnebach in South Tyrol – Turbine pipe including a large number of special structures 10 Grimming-Therme thermal spa in Bad Mitterndorf – on deep foundations driven with TRM piles 11 The Lebrija solar energy park – TRM piles safeguard the foundation soil Places and people 12 The cultural attractions of Vienna are overwhelming 13 The international water industry is meeting in Vienna – World Water Congress and Exhibition, 7th to 12th of September 2008 14 HamBaker – a partner who can be relied on in Britain News 15 Blue impressions in the Erzgebirge mountains – DN 600 Buderus pipe with BLS ® joints maintain the water supply in the Zwickau region 16 SMAGuA in Zaragoza WETEX 2008 17 SAM ALpEXpo in Grenoble and ALpITEC in Bozen WoD-KAN 2008 VoDoWoDY-KANALIZACE 2008 18 BLS ® and puR Top – the tailor-made solution to problems Culverting of a canal between the Neuwieser and partwitzer Lakes in the Lausitz About us 19 The important thing was always water – An excursion during the sale force conference in April at Blankenburg am Harz 20 The Wipptal region played host to Vienna – the Tyrolean Ball at Vienna Town Hall 21 New colleagues: More people who are now working to make ductile cast iron pipe and piles a success 22 THE „STop SIGN“ scheme for employees‘ suggestions – Sometimes it‘s the little things ... 23 A nice, but heavy, present – a ton of molten iron for Special Castings Day of Action on the 30th of August 2008 Invitation to the Family Day on the 13th of September 2008 Anniversaries Imprint
Dear readers, We are delighted to be able to present you with a new issue of our corporate magazine inFORM – published specially and exclusively for customers, employees and friends of our business in cast iron pipe and piles. Work on the aspects of our restructuring covered by company law have now been completed. Together with their sales and marketing companies Buderus Litinové Systémy s.r.o. (Czech Republic) and Buderus Pipe Systems FZCO (United Arab Emirates), Buderus Giesserei Wetzlar GmbH (BGW) and Tiroler Röhren- und Metallwerke AG (TRM) now form an independent group of companies. We are glad to see the business developing in this way, because we can now concentrate our forces on the cast iron pipe business and devote all our efforts to our core business and its customers. In this issue, we report as usual on current projects, events and people in our group of companies. This time we have made a special feature of our activities in the field of piled foundations using ductile piles. In the first half of the year we have already worked with our customers to carry out a number of very interesting projects, such as the new Grimming- Therme thermal spa in Bad Mitterndorf in Austria and the Solar Energy Park at Lebrija in Andalusia. You will find reports on these projects on pages ten and eleven. Other high spots of the first half of the year were the many international fairs and exhibitions. The Alpitec exhibition in Bozen and the SAM in Grenoble were this year‘s most significant exhibitions in the market for Alpine snow-making facilities. They were followed by national exhibitions in Saragossa (Spain), Brno (Czech Republic), Bydgoszcz (Poland) and in the Russian capital Moscow. The industry‘s main event was of course the IFAT, which took place in early May in Munich, and you will find a detailed report on this on the pages below. The high point of the year‘s conferences and exhibitions in 008 will be the World Water Congress of the International Water Association, which will be held from the 7th to the 1 th of September in Vienna. For the first time for years, this congress is going to be returning to the German-speaking part of the world. May we take this opportunity of extending to all of you a cordial invitation to attend this event, which is highly esteemed in the industry. We regret to say that we are increasingly concerned about worldwide developments on the raw materials and procurement markets. The effects of the international boom in demand in the construction and steel industries are now making themselves felt in our business too. For example, just in the months from March to June this year, the purchase price of our main raw material, scrap iron, went up by more than 00 Euros per ton – a rise, the like of which has never before been seen on the raw materials market. Regrettably, the price of coke too is moving upwards at the moment in a similar headlong fashion. With products such as cast iron pipes and ductile piles which use large amounts of material, developments like these have a major impact on the cost of the product. It is virtually impossible to compensate for them by making savings elsewhere. This is why we are finding ourselves compelled to pass on the major part of these price rises to our customers. As from 1 June 008, we have had to introduce surcharges for the price of scrap in almost all areas of the business to enable the situation to be dealt with in a reasonable way. It is clear to us that this will make it considerably more difficult for fairly long-term projects to be costed. However, the action we have taken here is simply a reflection of the general trends in the prices of raw materials and we therefore trust that our customers, and the clients for whom they are working, will understand why we have had to do this. At the same time, we hope that the situation will soon settle down, because this will be in the interests of everybody in the industry. Demand in the foundation and underground construction industry still seems to be strong. Both for ourselves and you, dear readers, we hope that this state of affairs will continue. In this issue, we would like to continue a story we began to tell in the past and to introduce you to some of our company‘s important partners in the field of marketing. From its base near Manchester, the HamBaker Group deals with our cast iron pipe business in Britain. HamBaker is totally committed to our highquality products and is making major efforts to promote sales of, for example, our thrust-locked BLS ® /VRS-T pipe in a marketing environment which is not always easy. You can find our portrait of the company on page 14. See too the profiles of new, young and promising employees who work for our group of companies (page 1). With their talents and abilities they represent the future of our company. We think you should get to know as many of them as possible. We hope you will enjoy reading the magazine and would like to wish you all the best for the forthcoming holiday period and that you will have a pleasant and relaxing holiday. We‘ll be back with you with the next issue of inFORM in November 008. Until then, with best regards, we are Ulrich Päßler Max Kloger Stefan Weber Editorial
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