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May 2015 News and information for customers
and business partners
segment
In focus
Working
together for
clean air
Photoment® at the
1st Pollutant Reduction Forum
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Building Stuttgart‘s Strong lineup for Pen design
future strategic growth with steament®
Use of fly ash at the Stuttgart 21 STEAG Power Minerals sales Classy ball pens
construction sites team reorganized made with real fly ash
14 22 25
Imprint Editorial
Imprint Dear readers,
Since the beginning of this year, municipalities have been
Published by threatened with heavy fines if they do not comply with the
STEAG Power Minerals GmbH limits for airborne pollutants. How great the pressure on many
Duisburger Straße 170 cities to act actually is – and hence also how great the interest
46535 Dinslaken in appropriate solutions is, was shown at the first “Forum on
Pollutant Reduction in Inner Cities with Heavy Traffic”: No less
Phone +49 2064 608-330 than 200 participants from politics, administration and business
Fax +49 2064 608-242 from almost all Federal states had accepted the invitation by
info-powerminerals@steag.com InnovationCity Bottrop. As an industrial partner of the event
www.steag-powerminerals.com STEAG Power Minerals, with the concrete additive Photoment®,
presented its contribution to permanently cleaner urban air –
Responsible according and attracted a lot of interest with it. You can read a detailed
to the German Press Law report on the Forum starting on page 6.
Sarah Höfer
Also in Stuttgart a major project of urban development is making
Editor in chief progress: in the construction of the new, underground central
Sarah Höfer rail station known as Stuttgart 21 the concrete suppliers are
relying on the competent and reliable support of Powerment
Title picture: Concept GmbH. This is because fly ash assures the decisive concrete
The EU has imposed stringent limits Corporate Values GmbH / Sarah Höfer characteristics for use in the demanding Stuttgart subgrade.
on nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution Learn more about our contribution to Stuttgart 21 in our ‘Extra’
levels which have to be complied Contributors to this issue section starting on page 14.
with by local authorities. At the “1st Corporate Values GmbH
Pollutant Reduction Forum” in Anja Beer Moreover, in this issue we also introduce to you our sales team
Bottrop, STEAG Power Minerals Wolfgang Beer that, with a new structure as well as well-known and new,
presented their innovative additive Julian Brass experienced personnel, will in future push ahead our national
Photoment®, as a readily available Mike Harke and international activities even more effectively – more on that
solution for the reduction of these Dr. Hans Hermann on page 22.
pollutants. Sarah Höfer
Carolina Jansen As always we wish you, dear readers, lots of reading enjoyment
David Korp and we look forward to your feedback on this issue of our
Picture credits: Dr. Michael Lichtmann SEGMENT.
Title picture: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH Jochen Pfitzner
Page 3: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH Martin Pielke
Pages 6-7: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
Christian Utermark The Board of Management of 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 Proofreading and editing
Page 12: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH Michaela Best, libella-proof
Page 14: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH, Aldinger+Wolf, Peter Wels
Page 17: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH Print
Pages 18-19: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
DITO digitale Dienstleistungs-GmbH
Page 20: STEAG GmbH
Andreas Hugot Uwe Rath
Page 21: Power Minerals Ltd.
Page 23: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH Design
Pages 24-25: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH www.corporatevalues.de
Pages 26-27: STEAG Power Minerals GmbH
Page 28: Illustration: Ari Plikat / STEAG Power Minerals GmbH Reprinting only with permission of the pu-
Pages 30-31: shutterstock.com
blisher. The contents of this publication do
not necessarily reflect the views or poli-
cies of the publisher.
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Contents Contents
In Focus In Brief Special STEAG World News Introducing ...
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Better air quality in Fertigbeton Rheinland proves its Building Stuttgart‘s future STEAG at E-world More room to drive ‘At that time I did not expect such
traffic-congested cities environmental awareness Use of fly ash at Stuttgart 21 Premier European trade fair of the Fly Ash for the Driving Range a development’
First Pollutant Reduction Certified environmental construction sites energy and water industries in Sutton Coldfield Introducing:
Forum in Bottrop management system Bernd Czoske (Managing Director
Strong lineup for strategic growth of Kremer Baustoffe und Transporte
Experts in the field of Hawar Power Minerals Reorganization of the sales team GmbH & Co. KG)
urban air quality builds on stability
Interview with Prof. Dr. Dietmar Stephan Solid growth in Qatar Involvement will be expanded
and Prof. Dr. Michael Bruse Cooperation with the Dinslakener Tafel
Fly ash and boiler ash from food bank charity since 2013
Moorburg find customers
all over Europe Pen design with steament®
Commissioning of the Classy ball pens made with real fly ash
Moorburg power plant
Broad spectrum of highly
professional laboratory services
Fuel analysis at the STEAG Power
Minerals Fuel Laboratory
A new system for TOP Interactive
process workflows
New SAP system implemented
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First Pollutant Reduction Forum in Bottrop
Good to know: Photoment® for
Better air quality in traffic-congested cities of: concrete. In his brief talk, Dipl. Ing.
Andreas Hugot, Managing Director at
clean air and clean surfaces
STEAG Power Minerals, drew attention
There was great interest in the topic: more than 200 decision makers – politicians, businesspeople exactly to that: “We must pay attention Nitrogen oxides pollute the air we breathe even used in the food industry – acts as a
and public administrators – traveled to InnovationCity Bottrop in early March to attend the first to the stone surfaces,” he said. and soil the surfaces on which we move photocatalyst in this process.
“Forum on Pollution Reduction in Inner Cities with Heavy Traffic.” The guests came from almost “We seek to bring the solution to where about in our urban environment. Owing
the problem lies.” The solution in this to its photocatalytic effect, Photoment® A welcome side effect of this reaction:
all German states and heard lectures providing them highly up-to-date information on the topic of
case is the pollutant-reducing concrete can decompose pollutants and keep sur- a superhydrophilic surface forms on the
air pollution in city centers. STEAG Power Minerals supported the event as industrial partner and
stone additive Photoment® developed by faces clean. When light (the sun’s ultravi- Photoment® stones. Water can spread
prepared a live demonstration which allowed the participants to convince themselves first hand of STEAG Power Minerals and KRONOS, olet rays and visible light) falls on the sur- especially well on such a surface and
the effectiveness of the pollutant-reducing concrete stone additive Photoment®. Leverkusen. That this additive actually face of a concrete paving stone improved undermine particles of dirt. That is to say,
is able to break down atmospheric NO2 with Photoment®, a reaction takes place: the stones clean themselves; soiling is
In the context of climate change, public Local authorities under pressure to act improved short-range mobility and urban was demonstrated not only during the health-damaging nitrogen oxides (NOx) simply washed off by the next heavy rain
awareness has long focused on CO2 emis- In spite of technical improvements planning that allows vehicle traffic to flow forum, in a sophisticated experimental are converted into nonhazardous nitrate shower. Moss and algae also have a hard
sions and the so-called CO2 footprints and exhaust emission standards, road smoothly and avoids emission-intensive setup, but has been proven scientifically (NO3-). time adhering to Photoment® stones.
of industrial goods and industrial processes traffic is still the chief cause of NO2 stop-and-go operation. All those in on earlier occasion. Prof. Dr. Dietmar
or services. At the Pollutant Reduction pollution. Imposing still more regulati- positions of responsibility must work Stephan from the TU Berlin (Building The titanium dioxide contained in Photo-
Forum attention centered mainly on ons on private transportation than is the together more intensively here in future. Materials and Construction Chemistry ment® – titanium dioxide, incidentally, is a
nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Several years case today – for example with 30 km/h This suggestion was gladly taken up by group) has analyzed Photoment® and harmless, well-known substance which is
ago the EU set stringent limits for this at- zones or driving bans – is not practicable, Dipl. Ing. Franz P. Linder, owner of the was able to graphically explain to his
mospheric pollutant, and since the begin- however. Slowing traffic does not reduce agency P3 Agentur für Kommunikation listeners the interplay between titanium
ning of 2015 applies sanctions when these pollution substantially (by four percent at und Mobilität. In his visionary presentation dioxide (TiO2), fine-grained hard coal
limits are exceeded: municipalities most), and traffic closures are extremely he described the city of the future as a fly ash and light in the process of the
face penalties of as much as 50,000 unpopular. Dr. Cornelia Wappenschmidt, city of bicycles: “The bicycle will become decomposition of harmful nitrogen
euros per day. This concrete threat to the Head of the Air Pollution Control the prime means of transportation in the dioxide. Under laboratory conditions,
public budgets certainly was one reason Department of the North Rhine-West- urban context.” However, this is still far 30 to 35 percent of the nitrogen oxide is
why so many municipal decision makers phalia Ministry for Climate Protection, from reality, and the current infrastructure degraded by Photoment®. Prof. Dr.
could be found in the audience. It Environment, Agriculture, Conservation leaves much to be desired. Michael Bruse reported on the transfer
is a fact that in many traffic-congested and Consumer Protection, described of the laboratory results to the practical
urban areas the maximum allowable nitrogen dioxide as the currently biggest Clean city air thanks to Photoment® field. His conclusion: even in an urban
concentration of 40 µg NO2 per cubic air pollution control problem in cities If cities and municipalities are going to environment Photoment® can distinctly
meter of ambient air (annual average) and stated in her talk: “The NO2 loads have to invest in new infrastructures, then reduce nitrogen oxide pollution; a 12
is clearly exceeded. So what has to definitely are still too high.” She called they should concern themselves with percent reduction is realistic. Doubly effective: Photoment® paving stones clean the air and also clean themselves
be done? for a package of measures including what such structures mainly are made
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In Focus In Focus
Electric mobility – a critical view They include the testing of Photoment® Interview
Any forum on the topic of pollution on a large test surface in a particularly
reduction would be one-sided if the critical area for NO2 in downtown Experts in the field of urban air quality
topic of electric mobility were left out. Bottrop. At the end of the forum,
Prof. Dr. Saulo H. Freitas Seabra da Tischler also expressed the wish that the What is the new additive capable of? SEGMENT wanted to find out exactly what and queried two
Rocha from the Hochschule Ruhr West experience gathered with InnovationCity proven specialists about the mechanism of action and the practical usefulness of Photoment®:
University of Applied Sciences in Bottrop might provide important incentives Prof. Dr. Dietmar Stephan from TU Berlin (Building Materials and Construction Chemistry group) and
pointed out some interesting aspects: for development in other cities and
Prof. Dr. Michael Bruse, who studies the interaction between urban planning, microclimate and air
whereas the use of electric vehicles does regions. Meteorologist and TV presenter
not give rise to any direct pollution and Sven Plöger, who played host at the
quality with his team at the University of Mainz.
The representatives of STEAG Power Minerals were pleased with the city stays “clean,” the process of forum in his accustomed congenial SEGMENT: Prof. Dr. Bruse, what actually is necessary to meet high demands. All elements must dovetail to properly
the strong interest shown by the specialist audience in Photoment® manufacturing the vehicles continues and professional manner, was visibly start the process of nitrogen oxide decomposition in a distribute the additive in the concrete so that it can develop its
to produce CO2 on a rather substantial impressed: “I am astonished at the Photoment® surface? full impact.
scale. number of people who have come to Bruse: Daylight and nothing else. The photocatalysis process
attend the pollution forum – one can in stone surfaces treated with Photoment® is continuous and SEGMENT: Is the surface of a treated stone different than
Many projects that bring cities forward sense that this is an inspiring project. The self-sustaining. This means that the only thing necessary is ex- that of a conventional stone? Does it feel different, for ex-
At the beginning of the event, Bottrop’s practical nature of the presentations, and posure to light. And the Photoment® itself is not consumed – it is ample, or is it more slippery?
Mayor Bernd Tischler pointed out that the amount of innovative thought that merely the catalyst.
many methods are needed to achieve has gone into them – everything from Stephan: You will not be able to detect any difference with the
the goal of an up-to-date, livable, healthy cycle superhighways to veritable magic SEGMENT: Is it at all possible to degrade really significant naked eye, and you won’t feel any difference. Neither is a Photo-
urban environment. “Currently we are stones that can extract pollutants from quantities of nitrogen oxide with this method? ment® stone more slippery. The finely distributed titanium dioxide
at work on more than 100 different the air – is intriguing.” Bruse: Yes, definitely. The quantities are relevant. We could can even trigger self-cleaning mechanisms on the stones which
projects in the InnovationCity,” he said. demonstrate this based on complex computer simulations. An facilitate the removal of dirt particles by water, and even subs-
Dr. Heinz-Christian Krempels and TV presenter Sven Plöger example: were we to cover an area the size of a football field with tances such as spots of oil can be photocatalytically degraded.
commenting on a live demonstration of pollutant reduction Photoment® stones, per hour fully 17 grams of nitrogen oxides There is also evidence that the settling of algae and mosses on
by Photoment® could be removed from the city’s air – without expending a bit of the stones is suppressed, reducing slipperiness.
additional energy.
SEGMENT: Prof. Dr. Bruse, Prof. Dr. Stephan – thank you
One building stone of the InnovationCity SEGMENT: Is there anything that urban planners must pay very much for your time!
special attention to if they want to work with Photoment®
From the laboratory to the road: in Bottrop’s city center the effect of Photoment® is being put stones?
to the practical test in an area subject to strong pollution. Bruse: The microclimate and especially the air circulation in
an urban area are very complex due to the building density.
As reference surface, the sidewalk in the Basically, in this case we can only say that “a lot helps a lot”: the
area of the intersection of Essener Strasse more photocatalytically active surfaces you have, the better it is.
and Peterstrasse was converted into a In addition, these surfaces must be exposed as often and as long
test section, since the air there is exposed as possible to light – sidewalks, driveways and bicycle paths sug-
to heavy traffic pollution. Green spaces gest themselves for application. But road surfaces or noise barri-
already had been created on the middle ers and screen walls also are potential Photoment® applications.
strip – at best, however, this merely permits
reducing the carbon dioxide load, not SEGMENT: Prof. Dr. Stephan, you have subjected
nitrogen oxide pollution. All in all, Photoment® Photoment® to exhaustive laboratory tests – is it really an
paving stones were laid on a test area of entirely new material? They know and praise the properties of Photoment®: Prof. Dr. Stephan …
750 square meters. Stephan: Yes and no. Titanium dioxide, one of the chief
components of Photoment®, has long been known and has
Andreas Hugot, Managing Director always been used, for example, in wall paints; it is the pure white.
of STEAG Power Minerals, said during The photocatalytic effect of titanium dioxide also is well known.
the ground-breaking ceremony: “A simple However, in wall paints precisely that effect was undesirable
solution with a big effect and literally because it makes the paints chalk – the binding agents dissolved
a fine-looking building stone in the over time. The use of titanium dioxide in concrete also is not
success story that Innovation City is.” entirely new; however, Werner Krohm, concrete technologist in the
And Mayor Bernd Tischler added: “One of employ of STEAG Power Minerals, is to thank for the fact that the
these stones cleans more than one cubic photocatalytically active titanium dioxide is very well distributed
meter of air in one hour. That is a great Anreas Hugot (Managing Director of STEAG Power Minerals), Burkhard Drescher (Managing Director of the in the paving stones and especially effective as a result. This
achievement.” Innovation City management company) and Bottrop’s Mayor Bernd Tischler during the groundbreaking required quite a bit of development work, because the second
ceremony for the Photoment® test area in Bottrop
major component of Photoment®, hard coal fly ash, also must … and Prof. Dr. Bruse, presenting the practical benefits of the product in Bottrop
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In Brief In Brief
Certified environmental management system
Fertigbeton Rheinland proves its environmental awareness
The workforce and the company ready-mixed concrete producer in the By now ISO 14001 has become an
management agreed: everybody region and one of few construction- integral part of the daily operations flow
wants to deal thriftily with energy and material producers in the whole of of Fertigbeton Rheinland and ‘lived’
raw material resources and at all times Germany that proves with certification environmental management.
work on reducing their consumption. that environmentally aware handling of
Fertigbeton Rheinland additionally ready-mixed concrete is possible - and in
pledges to reduce the amount of fact from production as far as placement.
waste produced to a minimum and to
avoid harm to the environment by Reasons for the start of a certification
hazardous substances or water- procedure were inquiries from customers,
hazardous substances. These were in particular from the nearby Dutch sales
endeavors that reached their logical territory, but also from large construction
consequence in an EN ISO certificate. companies from within Germany. “Also
we and our environment benefit from
Since the end of October last year the introduction of ISO 14001,” says
Fertigbeton Rheinland GmbH & Co.KG Managing Director Frank Urbanek. “All of
has been certified for the scope of the measures now taken also serve the
Production, Delivery and Conveying of purpose of active health protection and
Ready-mixed Concrete and Masonry in future will protect physical integrity of
Mortar according to EN ISO 14001 our employees, of the neighborhood and Fertigbeton Rheinland attaches great importance to the
(FIZ-Cert 392/14). Hence it is the first customers as well as the general public.” 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 company STEAG
ago as a subsidiary of STEAG Power Power Minerals
Minerals and the Hawar Group, we have estab- A new energy supplier is available to the German wind blows strong, and can do this much more flexibly than
Hawar Power Minerals’ mission is to lished initial con- electricity grid: on February 28, 2015, the first of two 827- older coal-fired plants, Moorburg is expected to chalk up more
establish the power plant by- tacts with poten- MW units at the hard coal fired Moorburg power plant took than 7,500 hours of operation annually. The reasons are the
products business in the Gulf region. The tial customers in up commercial operation. The commissioning phase and high efficiency of 46.5 percent, which makes it one of Europe’s
intensive market development work Saudi Arabia and trial operation were successfully completed before this. In most up-to-date plants, as well as the important role which
has begun to pay off: after supplying Bahrain, which summer 2015 the startup of the second unit will follow. Moorburg already plays today for the stability of the grid in nort-
a construction site of the Doha should result in hern Germany. In a few years its importance will grow still more
Metro, Hawar Power Minerals now orders before the As partner of the Moorburg power plant, which belongs to when the last north German nuclear power plant in Brokdorf
makes deliveries to five customers year is over.” the Vattenfall energy group, for STEAG Power Minerals a new ceases operation.
and is continuing to grow. phase in the marketing of power plant by-products thus begins.
The product Deepwater makes it possible to remove most of the produced One of Europe’s most modern plants
“Now the important thing is to stabilize portfolio was fly ash and boiler ash in large-capacity seagoing ships and Nigel Waldron, managing director of Power Minerals Limited,
the business in Qatar and then participa- extended by mi- Left to right: Peter Rush, Jerald Dsouza, Naragajen Bharanidharan, Vincent Gomes deliver it to customers in other European countries. headquartered in the UK, also is convinced that the new supply
te in the construction boom that is taking crosilica, a by- and Hawar Power Minerals’ Director Jochen Pfitzner of fly ash and boiler ash will help to cover the large requirements
shape,” says managing director Jochen product from the steel industry. Hawar logistics specialist, an accountant and a A reliable source for the UK market of the concrete and cement industry in the UK.
Pfitzner. For the year 2015 he puts his tar- Power Minerals also has beefed up its driver. The driver is not a luxury, but a ne- One of the main customers for boiler ash is the United Kingdom.
gets in these words: “For Qatar, the cen- staff, but remains lean so as not to bur- cessity in a country where people still pay Peter Brennan, responsible for International Sales at STEAG
tral challenge concerns our capacity to den itself with too much overheads. In by check – which has to be personally Power Minerals, is happy to be able to offer the British market
deliver and the efficiency of our logistics addition to managing director Pfitzner, collected and brought to the bank. a reliable new procurement source. Although the power plant
rather than the acquisition of orders. At a small team looks after business in the must compensate for the increased infeed of energy when the
the same time, thanks also to our parent desert country: a commercial director, a
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In Brief In Brief
Fuel analysis at the STEAG Power Minerals Fuel Laboratory New SAP system implemented
Broad spectrum of highly professional A new system for TOP process workflows
laboratory services Rapid workflows Order management
Material flows management
Transparency Optimized processes
Simplified dispatch management Strong networks
Faster, better, more transparent: the Back Office’, ‘Procurement of Logistic implementation of the material requirement
introduction of the completely new Services’ becomes ’Logistics Sourcing’ and planning processes if the linking of material
SAP system within the scope of the ’Logistics Distribution’ is the new name for supply sources has been carried out
project Technology – Optimization the dispatch management department. electronically and upon the transfer
– Processes, ‘TOP’ for short, has These three new teams formed collaborate of the pick-up data finally billing can already
streamlined business processes. The on an interdisciplinary basis and as of the take place automatically. Naturally all of
project was started already in 2013 due date successfully switched over to these processes must first be practiced
aiming at being able to successfully the new process chain with a completely and become attuned to one ano-
cope with the expected increase in renovated organizational structure. ther, but it can now already be stated
product volumes, particularly in that the more than two years of
Broad spectrum: The Gladbeck-based laboratories of STEAG Power Minerals provide diverse laboratory services from a single source volumes of fly ash and blasting Smooth handling of process chain development time have proved worthwhile.
abrasives, resulting from the commis- The aim of the changeover is the complete With the installation of the new system
For now two years STEAG Power Minerals has been in via an appropriate interface to the fuel management system sioning of new-build hard coal fired consistency of the processes, starting STEAG Power Minerals has taken an
charge of the operation of the former central coal laboratory of the customers. power plants and the expansion of in the area of procurement and sales, important step in the direction of also in
of STEAG GmbH at the Gladbeck location. The staff had been international business. Originally via logistics with the above-mentioned future being able to reliably meet
enlarged and new equipment purchased. The premises Experienced lab technicians, convincing services scheduled for early February, the elements of order management, purchase customers’ requirements and wishes.
now also are up-to-date: the laboratory moved to a new The broad range of services provided by the STEAG Power Minerals system now went ‘live’ in mid- of logistic services and finally dispatch Uwe Rath, Managing Director of STEAG
building on the grounds of MINERALplus GmbH. Fuel Laboratory is also indicated by the new name and reflected March this year. In that way it was management as far as finalizing in the area Power Minerals GmbH, “We rely not only on
in the lab’s daily analytical work: fuels other than coal also are to be insured that the start-up of accounts. For the smooth handling of intensive customer orientation, strong
The fuel laboratory is well positioned to face the future: in examined, for example torrefied biomass. Power generators proceeds as smoothly as possible. the process chain all of the links in the networks and personal contacts,
addition to performing regular analyses of coal deliveries for the and other industrial customers can have various kinds of fuels chain must be present and interlock: first but also strive for process excellence
STEAG power plants, the lab evaluates samples provided by analyzed and can rely on the expertise of the experienced staff. Already in February the organizational all of the data are acquired electronically, in our company”.
other power plant operators with testing methods accredited Every prospective customer gets an individual offer tailored to structure in the area of logistics designed then dispatch management can trigger
to DIN EN ISO 17025. This accreditation affords yet another his needs and requirements. Regular coal analysis and individual for the project was implemented – and the material movement and accordingly
advantage: the results can be used to calculate emissions in the tests also are included in the range of services, of course. was at once also given a new name to generate PIN numbers, that is transpor- Contact:
context of CO2 monitoring. Other laboratory services include: make allowance for the increasingly tation and/or pick-up numbers, with Head of Logistics:
samples preparation, calorific value assessment, proximate and Incidentally, in the accredited Construction Materials Laboratory international orientation of STEAG which the respective carriers can pick up Dr. Hans Hermann
ultimate analysis, determination of wear parameters, grindability that is likewise located in Gladbeck, STEAG Power Minerals Power Minerals GmbH. The more German the goods and transport them to the cus- Phone: +49 2064 608-294
and ash fusibility. The laboratory results are communicated offers a wide range of materials tests and construction-related coined term ‘Logistics/Material Flows tomers. Email: hans.hermann@steag.com
to the customer quickly and without having to be reentered: tests both for the manufacturers of power plant by-products Management’ now became ‘Logistics‘
thanks to electronic links, data can be transferred directly or and for suppliers and other interested parties. and in order to make the activities Simplification and streamlining TOP Project Manager:
clear the three new teams formed also What initially appears a little laborious Mike Harke
received corresponding designations: makes a lot of things simpler: an unam- Phone: +49 2064 608-234
Laboratory services of STEAG Power Minerals order management is now called ‘Logistic biguous transport number simplifies the Email: mike.harke@steag.com
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
The most important innovations in an overview:
a Waste Analysis Laboratory. Contact us, we’ll be happy to advise you: Introduction of a comprehensive customer management system (CRM)
Replacement of existing systems in the Blasting Abrasives business unit by SAP
Contact: Optimization of the dispatch management process for mass processes (approx. 90,000 transactions per year)
Martin Pielke Outgoing invoices to customers are to a high degree prepared by automated means and dispatched by e-billing
Phone: +49 2064 608-319 Introduction of the credit memo procedure for shippers
Email: martin.pielke@steag.com 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 Special
The history of the overall project ‘Stuttgart
Stuttgart 21 in figures
21‘ dates back to the 1980s – at that
time they already discussed how the
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infrastructural efficiency of the constantly
growing greater Stuttgart-Ulm region could
be safeguarded for the future. Over construction sections in Stuttgart’s inner city
several years experts worked out the concept and in the greater region.
that was presented to the public in 1994.
2,500,000
After the planning approval procedure that
had been underway since 2001 and the
agreement achieved in 2007 regarding the Approx. m3
financing, the construction work officially of concrete will be used in the Stuttgart 21 project;
started on February 2, 2010. According
to current plans, the new rail sections and
for the new rail section Wendlingen-Ulm another
the underground rail station are to go into 2,000,000 m3 will be used.
17,000
operation in 2021.
The overall Stuttgart 21 project comprises
a large number of intertwined large new jobs
construction measures that are intended
in the region will be created by the project (10,000
to make both long-distance traffic and
permanently, 7,000 during the construction phase).
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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 In total a construction period of about
a new axis for German and European long- years is expected.
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distance traffic. The Stuttgart rail terminus
will become a modern through station
that, with fewer tracks, will nevertheless be kilometers of new rail lines are
markedly more efficient. Additionally, the
dismantling of the old track systems will
being laid.
8,000,000
free up large areas for urban development –
right in the center of Stuttgart space for new
urban neighborhoods and parks is hence
More than
obtained that will sustainably improve the inhabitants of Baden-Württemberg live in the catchment
Reality (top of page) and vision (bottom): The mammoth Stuttgart 21 urban development project is due for completion in 2021 quality of life in the state capital. area of the new construction project and hence benefit
from Stuttgart 21.
Stuttgart 21 Joint ventures pool technical know-how
18,000,000
A central role within the scope of the
Building Stuttgart‘s future overall project is occupied by the planning
approval section (PFA) 1.5: through
new tunnels, the long-distance transport -
Construction period of 11 years, more than 4.5 million cubic meters of concrete used – no current trains coming from the direction of
Bad Cannstatt and Feuerbach will be car journeys per year will be saved
construction project in Germany even approximates the dimensions of the transport infrastructure routed into the new underground
and urban development project known as ‘Stuttgart 21’. The aim of the mammoth building rail station. Additionally also for the
that implies an annual CO2 saving of
program: a future-proof and high-performance infrastructure for the city of Stuttgart and the
70,000
Stuttgart suburban rail system a
surrounding region. In the context of two construction measures which are of central importance new tunnel is being built that leads
underground, from a new bridge to be approx. tons.
to the overall project – the new underground rail station under construction and the Bad Cannstatt constructed over the Neckar, to the
tunnel that will link local and long-distance traffic to the new station in the future – all of the companies
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new central station. In order to master the
involved in the project were faced from the first day by the challenge of finding answers to complex challenges during the construction hectares of downtown Stuttgart can
demanding technological and logistic questions. We visited the construction sites of both of the Bad Cannstatt tunnel, the companies
of Hochtief Infrastructure, Wayss + Freytag
be redeveloped due to the dismantling
measures for you and show you the central role that the fly ash from Powerment plays for the and BeMo Tunneling formed a joint of the old track systems.
forward-looking construction project. venture in which the necessary capacities
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and the technological know-how for the structures – the demands made on the now found, i.e. with the massive use of fly
construction process were pooled. concretes to be used were therefore multi- ash, the same mix is always used, naturally
faceted and complex right from the start. making logistics considerably easier. This
In search of an efficient partner that can solution is not usual; normally little to no fly
meet the high demands made on the Highest demands on used ash is used in the shotcrete.”
concrete qualities, the joint venture for concrete mixtures
construction of the PFA 1.5 section found In order to meet the high demands made Decisive role for fly ash
one directly in the region: together with on the concretes, the concrete joint The fly ash supplied by Powerment also
Mobil Baustoffe, a Munich-based company venture decided in favor of an unusual reveals its strengths at other places in the
specializing in supplying concrete, solution: both for the shotcrete that is used Stuttgart 21 project. For example, also for
annular gap grouting mortar and tubbing for the first shuttering of the tunnel during the construction of the trough building
segments for major projects around the heading and for the construction concrete structure for the new underground rail
world, Godel Beton, the market leader in that will form the inner shell of the tunnel, station fly ash containing concrete from
the central Neckar Valley region supplying concrete mixes with a very high fly ash Godel is used, but for quite different reasons:
major projects throughout Germany with content are used. The reason is that due to as the addition of fly ash ensures a slow
concretes of every quality, formed a joint the Stuttgart subsoil containing anhydrite, development of heat in the setting concrete,
venture that supplies all of the concretes for the tunnel construction depending on the it is used here in order to prevent cracks in
for construction section 1.5 – in total the condition of the soil present, concretes are the floor slabs of the trough which are up
joint venture will supply this section alo- required that must show a high degree of to 2.50 m thick. Thomas Hauser, Project
ne with a good 600,000 m3 of concrete. resistance to sulfate attack (exposure class Manager of Ed. Züblin AG, the company
Godel Beton has been purchasing fly ash of concrete according to DIN EN 206-1/DIN responsible for the construction of the
from Powerment since 2011 – and it is ex- 1045-2 XA (chemical attack)). underground rail station, explains: “Concre-
actly this fly ash that plays a decisive role in tes with a lot of cement – above all mass
the construction of the Bad Cannstatt tunnel. The solution found for the construction of concretes – develop a high hydration heat
the Bad Cannstatt tunnel was that by the that can also lead to cracks in the concrete
Since already at an early stage in the planning addition of large proportions of fly ash the and this heat can be significantly reduced by
of the PFA 1.5 it was established that for the same resistance to sulfates is achieved as replacing cement by fly ash.”
construction of the tunnels special concrete can otherwise only be achieved by the use
technology-related challenges would have of specific special cements. Stephan Godel, Collaboration with Powerment already
to be mastered. The non-leached-out gips- Managing Director and owner of Godel since 2011
keuper (so-called anhydrite), that is typical of Beton, explains: “In a normal case we would To be able to reliably supply the enormous
Stuttgart’s geology, is a difficult underground have had to keep the most varied cements quantities of concrete that are required,
that in the event of the ingress of water gains in readiness during the construction process Godel Beton has set up a mobile batching plant
up to 60% in volume. In that way enormous which would then have been used depending close to the construction site that is operated
forces develop that act on the new tunnel on the geological situation. With the solution 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: Godelfluid 3.5 Kg /m³
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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times can handle up to 10 concrete Security of supply by means of to understand the customer’s requirements A brief profile of Godel Beton
vehicles per hour. The company’s founder efficient logistics and to implement them fast. For us every
Stephan Godel smilingly states: “We David Korp, Head of Sales at Powerment customer is equally important. At the end of Godel Beton has already been in the market since 1991. In 21 persons up to 20% of whom are working on the Stuttgart 21
produce round the clock with the best people GmbH, stresses the importance of the the day this surely all tipped the balance for years of business activity the owner Stephan Godel has been project. In total, Godel will supply the Stuttgart 21 project as far as
available for the best customers around.” partnership for his company: “Stuttgart our partner Godel Beton to decide in favor able to develop his company into a regional market leader and into 2019 with about 1,000,000 m3 of concrete – of this quantity
21 is naturally a gigantic topic for us as of fly ash and us.“ Korp looks forward with a concrete specialist active throughout Germany. Godel supplies a good 500,000 m3 will be used in the Bad Cannstatt tunnel and
Stephan Godel can easily justify his decision Powerment – the demands made on quality confidence to the tasks for Powerment over construction projects of every size throughout Germany with about 300,000 m3 for the construction of the new underground
in favor of Powerment: “When we decided and availability of the fly ash are unique. That the coming years: “We have continuous ultra-high-performance concretes and employs a total of 220 rail station.
on the use of fly ash in our concrete is why we have devoted a lot of effort to quality monitoring, we are constantly
formulations, we no longer asked ourselves securing the supplies. For the preparation expanding our silo capacity that we can use
for long with whom we would do it. Godel of the supply concepts we have thought for fly ash. In addition we have the possibility of
Beton has been purchasing fly ash from through and made allowance for the most transshipping large quantities of fly ash via
Powerment since 2011. Regarding use of varied options in order to be capable of our silo terminals linked to waterways and of
the raw material fly ash the factors qua- providing solutions even in tense situations. bringing them onto the South German market
lity, security of supply and reliability as Besides buffering, also the supply of if the need should arise – the security of supply
well as the understanding of the final pro- qualitatively comparable products from the is therefore safeguarded, given the current
duct concrete are very much decisive for Ruhr can be a short- or medium-term general conditions. Nevertheless, it should
the selection of the right supplier. This solution. What is decisive is that the be kept in mind that fly ash is a by-product
applies all the more to these prominent products, if at all possible, are available in from power generation and that Powerment
projects. Therefore it was easy for us to a sufficient quantity with reference to the has no direct influence on the ash volumes
decide to rely on Powerment also for necessary quality specifications at the right produced by the power plants in these times
these major projects.” time in the right place. We take a lot of trouble of the turnaround in energy policy.“
Godel Beton are producing about 1 million cubic meters of concrete The concrete batching plant mixes enough concrete for 10 vehicles per hour,
for the Stuttgart 21 project 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 Sou-
th 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 know-
how 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 Left to right: Stephan Godel (Managing Director of Godel Beton), David Korp
projects of the overall Stuttgart 21 project. (Head of Sales at Powerment) and Andreas Boettcher (Project Manager of the
Arge Tunnel Cannstatt S21 joint venture)
The construction firms bank on the benefits of fly ash both during tunnel heading work and for the trough structure of the rail station
18 segment May 2015 segment May 2015 19STEAG World News
Premier European trade fair of the energy and water industries Fly ash for the driving range
Contacts, talks, discussions: More room to drive
STEAG at E-world
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 Management Board, welcomed the attending colleagues and
STEAG’s new trade fair stand concept. It went down well with guests. In a brief speech he emphasized that in the face of the
visitors and guests: “We received a great deal of positive feed- current trend STEAG had been able to market its power plants
back on our new, more open stand design. The contacts and the on the Rhine and Ruhr rivers and in the Saarland successfully.
talks we had were of a high quality and even exceeded last year’s For the future, he said, innovative projects like the large-scale
figures. We are especially pleased that we were able to place battery storage system “LESSY” at the Völklingen-Fenne site or
three STEAG speakers in the supporting program again this year: the “Power-to-Fuel” project in Lünen point the way forward.
Udo Wichert, Managing Director of STEAG Fernwärme, Dr. Mar- For the optimised 300 by 120 meter driving range ... ... some 90,000 tons of moist fly ash were emplaced.
kus Laukamp, the Managing Director of STEAG New Energies, Contacts in the energy trading sector deepened
and Daniel Lehmann, Project Engineer STEAG Energy Services,” The Markets unit also was happy about STEAG’s successful
says Dr. Jürgen Fröhlich, press spokesman of STEAG GmbH. presentation at E-world. “Our expectations were fully met. We No one is born a golfer, so our advice: practice driving! A total of 100,000 tons of material moved
had the opportunity to present our company with its entire family This and other golfing techniques usually are practiced on During the most intensive construction phase Power Minerals
High-profile visitor on Day One of business units and were able to extend and deepen important a driving range, a stretch of grass at least 130 metres in emplaced up to 1,500 tons of fly ash each day. When the site
On the first day of the fair, Peter Knitsch, State Secretary in contacts with market partners and customers particularly in the length. On particularly large driving ranges one can hit the layout was complete and the drainage put in place, the layers of
the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, area of energy trading,” says Melanie Grimm. A customer event ball from opposite sides of the range; in this case, for safe- soil – to which another 10,000 tons of topsoil was added – were
Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North on the eve of the fair was also a point on the agenda. At the ty reasons the range must have a length of at least 300 me- put back in place. Then a special high-grade lawn seed selected
Rhine-Westphalia, dropped in on the E-world team. He took a Walsum power station information was shared about tres. Such a 300 by 120 metre site now has been created by the golf club management was sown.
particular interest in the topics “power-to-fuel” and “virtual power “efficient coal-fired power plants as part of the turnaround in energy for the Aston Wood Golf Course in Sutton Coldfield – with
plant.” STEAG’s Dr. Wolfgang Benesch, Head of Research and policy.” The participants were impressed both by the choice of fly ash from Power Minerals Ltd. The project was carried out without interrupting the running ope-
Development, and Thomas Ciecierski, Head of Load Dispatch topics, the possibility for detailed discussion, and the choice of rations of the club – despite the fact that the ash had to be trans-
and Trading, were on hand to talk to the Secretary. the venue, including a tour of the power plant. Owing to the favo- A lot of material had to be moved: First, the topmost layers of soil ported across the fairway of the first hole. Power Minerals Ltd.
rable response to its appearance at the trade fair, STEAG already were removed and some 90,000 tons of moist fly ash placed. managed to satisfy everyone: the owner and management team
A treat and a get-together on Day Two is looking forward to E-world 2016. Power Minerals was responsible for hauling the fly ash to the golf of Aston Wood Golf Club, the members and the local residents
Before wine grower Mr. Petgen-Dahm personally conducted a course from the storage areas of the Rugeley Power Station, 18 and the local environmental office expressed approval of the pl-
little tasting session with first-class Moselle wines on the evening kilometres distant, as well as for emplacing and compacting the anning and safe implementation on the part of Power Minerals
of the second fair day, Joachim Rumstadt, Chairman of the ash. The drainage work was handled by a specialised subcon- Ltd. Lastly, negotiations on further improvements to the golf faci-
tractor – it had been the drainage that had given rise to problems lity are currently in progress.
until Power Minerals decisively improved the site to allow use all
year round. Further information:
Julian Brass
The “E-world energy & water” Phone: +44 121 321 3416
fair in a nutshell Email: julian.brass@powerminerals.co.uk
The trend points upwards: the premier European trade
fair of the energy and water industries continues to
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Reorganization of the sales team
Strong lineup for strategic growth
The Sales unit of STEAG Power Minerals led by Wolfgang scheduled to cross the Atlantic, while now at least six will be hea-
Beer is reorganizing itself on the international level ding for the US. “We also assume the role of service provider for
in order to satisfy the globally increased demand subsidiaries and other disposers of power plant by-products,
for fly ash and boiler ash more efficiently and on a larger scale including by-products from foreign power plants,” Brennan explains.
than before. Besides staff changes, mainly new sources wai-
ting to be tapped as well as reinvigorated overseas markets National contacts unchanged, new back office supports
play a significant role in the effort. National sales continue to Sales teams
be served by the seasoned and successful team. The National Sales unit continues to bank on tried and tested
structures. Dr. Michael Lichtmann, deputy head of power plant
With Peter Brennan and Nils Jansen, two new, yet well-established by-products Sourcing and Sales, continues to look after the regions
people will be responsible in future for the operations of the Interna- West and Central; Michael Chemnitz is responsible for the region
tional Sales unit of STEAG Power Minerals. While Brennan is taking North, and thus also for the new power plant in Moorburg, and
over the position in addition to his function as Director of Power Andreas Helmig continues to be responsible for the marketing
Minerals Limited, headquartered in the United Kingdom, Nils Jansen of Photoment. Bernd Knösing is the contact for the region East, International Sales team:
is switching from the Business Development unit to Sales. When the and additionally acts as managing director of the Polish subsidiary, “We intend to exploit the global potentials in the area of
new management duo talks about global potential, they quickly get STEAG Energo Mineral – which puts him in a position to obtain power plant by-products with a more strategic approach
to talking about the US market. “The cement industry in the USA new sources of procurement for STEAG Power Minerals in Eastern and so grow internationally in a concerted and sustained
now virtually has regained the level it had reached prior to the finan- Europe. The National Sales team has long since begun to look fashion.”
cial crisis,” says Jansen. beyond the German market, which is becoming more and more
interlocked especially with the Polish and Czech markets.
The company has been active internationally for many years; with
the new sales structure, however, the foundations have been laid for Organizational assistance is provided to the national and international
the strategic expansion of the worldwide activities. During the last sales teams by the newly created Sales Support group, consisting
two years, STEAG Power Minerals, jointly with the strategic partner of Birgit Zalesiak, Kilian Weigand and Melanie Totzke. They play
ZAG International as sales arm, already created the basis for a a coordinating role between the field service and other internal
National Sales team:
successful involvement in the US business. The potentials developed departments. “With the new team, which provides strong support in “The German cement market, in particular, still offers
in this way now can be exploited by the company more than the area of, inter alia, sales planning and has taken over sales con- opportunities for national growth. Beyond that, we no
successfully, also thanks to new sources of fly ash: during the past trolling, structurally we are perfectly well positioned to advance our longer can concentrate our attention solely on the
winter months, initially three shiploads of 44,000 tons each were growth in a well-targeted and efficient way,” says Beer. 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 Hence for a transition period for DIN EN 206:2014-07 no national
Arbeitsausschuss) 005-07-02 AA ‘Concrete Technology’ on application rule exists and thus the European concrete standard
December 17, 2014, the comments received on the draft of E DIN is therefore not applicable. Under these circumstances, until the
1045-2:2014-08 were the subject of consultations. These were publication of a new DIN 1045-2 the old rules of “DIN EN 206-
partly very controversial. The result was that the so far formula- 1:2001-07 (incl. the amendments) in conjunction with DIN 1045-
ted standard concept for concrete on the basis of EN 206-1/DIN 2:2008-08” with all of the associated German Committee for Re-
1045-2 is reaching its limits. That standard draft will no longer be inforced Concrete (DAfStb) guidelines will remain in effect, also for
followed up. building supervisory purposes.
In a new concept, comprehensive and consistent stipulations of
component-specific demands made on planning, construction The notification from the German Committee for Structural Sales Support team:
materials, execution and quality assurance are to be formulated. In Concrete (DAfStb) on E DIN 1045-2:2014-08 can be found at: “Strategic growth is achievable only through efficient
this context, the DAfStb (German Committee for Reinforced Con- planning and continuous controlling. With comprehensive
crete) was requested to coordinate a round-table discussion with preparation and follow-up of sales activities we create
the areas of planning, construction materials and execution and to Further information: structures for the successful work of our colleagues in
take on the pre-standardization work. A second draft of DIN 1045- Dr. Michael Lichtmann field sales.”
2 is to be prepared. E-Mail: michael.lichtmann@steag.com
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