Annual report 2009 - Siempelkamp

Konrad container
Casks and containers – safe storage and transport
At the Krefeld and Mülheim locations, Siempelkamp Nukleartechnik manufactures
transport and storage casks and containers made of ductile cast iron with nodular
graphite for the handling of radioactive materials. Our subsidiary Siempelkamp
Foundry produces the castings. Afterwards, the containers and casks are mechanically
machined at the SNT manufacturing center located in Mülheim, Germany. We
practically produce all cask bodies and complete containers on behalf of Gesell-
schaft für Nuklear-Service mbH (GNS), a subsidiary of the leading energy supply
companies. Siempelkamp has been the market leader in this area for many years.
We produce CASTOR ® cask bodies, complete MOSAIK ® casks and casks and
cast containers for radioactive waste as well as a variety of Konrad containers.
Production in 2009 at full capacity utilization
Despite the fi nancial and economic crisis in 2009, our production
capacities were fully utilized. Among other products, we produced
more than 300 MOSAIK ® containers. For the production of transport
and storage containers of the types MOSAIK ® as well as Konrad,
cast iron and concrete casks as well as recycled materials from the
dismantling of nuclear facilities are used. This represents a unique
selling point for Siempelkamp. Our area of contract manufacture
has also contributed versatile tasks to our production activities in
2009. Here, our competence to machine cast com ponents with
piece weights of up to 200 t (220 US tons) is especially noteworthy.
View of the production facility in Mülheim, Germany Assembly shop with cast containers and MOSAIK ® containers