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PAGE 14 | INFORM NO. 3 / 2011 Unrivalled safety and reliability DUKTUS PIPES fOR fIRE-ExTINGUIShING WATER PIPELINES The “Sonnhalde” area in Switzerland’s Emmental region is well equipped to deal with fires To enable adequate quantities of fire-extinguishing water to be supplied in the event of a fire, the municipalities of Rüderswil and Lützelflüh in the canton of Berne have connected the Sonnhalde residential area to the public water supply. Sonnhalde was previously supplied by the Sonnhalde private water supply association, but this was unable to provide enough water for fire-extinguishing purposes. Plans for the project were worked out by the consulting engineers H.R. Müller AG of Bremgarten in the canton of Berne. The laying work had to be done in winter, when vegetation was sparse, and in the severe cold. An added difficulty was that the soil conditions varied. Duktus’ sales and distribution partner HAGENBUCHER was able to offer the right grade of pipe for these difficult conditions. Ductile iron pipes with a ZMU external coating and BLS®/ VRS®-T joints were equal to these requirements in every respect. From an existing DN 125 pipeline, a 650 metre long DN 125 hydrant pipeline was laid to the municipal boundary of Lützelflüh as a first stage. Despite of the biting cold, the laying work, which was done by Anton Siegenthaler of Schwanden in The municipality of Rüderswil in winter A 650 metre long hydrant pipeline of Duktus DN 125 pipes ensures that there is adequate capacity for supplying fire-extinguishing water Laying of the hydrant pipeline in the Sonnhalde area in the Emmental region the Emmental region, was completed to an impeccable technical standard and on time, and the two Emmental municipalities now have a safe and reliable system for supplying fire-extinguishing water and an up-to-date way of fighting fires. The Škoda factory in mladá Boleslav puts its money on fm Approval In the course of work to expand the Škoda’s main site in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic, it was necessary for fire-fighting systems to be expanded. The car maker will expand its capacity at the home works by 2012. In planning the fire protection, emphasis was placed on having the very highest quality. Duktus litinové systémy was able to supply exactly what the customer asked for: pipelines of ductile iron pipes with FM Approval. Jirí Mlynár, Duktus Sales Manager in the Czech Republic, said: “Expansion is an important step in Škoda’s strategy for growth. The new M13 building was to be equipped with a safe and reliable fire protection Crucial to the placing of the order was FM Approval, which the Duktus pipes have 190 metres of ZMU pipes was laid for the fire-extinguishing water pipelines in the Škoda plant system and FM Approval was a prerequisite for the placing of an order for the pipeline systems. This was a requirement that Duktus was able to meet. We supplied 190 metres of DN 300 nominal size ductile iron pipes with a ZMU external coating and the proven BLS®/VRS®-T joint. The ZMU coating stops the cast material from coming into direct contact with the soil, and this ensures that there is outstandingly good protection against leakage currents. This was also an explicit requirement which the client had, in addition to the FM Approval.” The first sod was turned to begin the expansion on 15 April 2011, on the occasion of the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the association with Volkswagen. The work of laying the pipelines for fire-extinguishing water, which was carried out by KSK Praha, went off without a hitch and was completed in September 2011. Duktus had already made a good impression in the Bohemian town of Mladá Boleslav in the spring of 2011 when it supplied ductile iron drinking water pipes (see our report in inform 2/2011). A view of part of the Škoda plant in Mladá Boleslav
The machining of fittings starts at Duktus in hall A REPORT By WOLfGANG BRUGGER, hEAD Of PRODUCT DEvELOPmENT Gusskomponenten GmbH (GKG) had for many years been supplying fittings of the DN 80 to DN 300 nominal sizes with restrained push-in sockets (BLS®/VRS®-T joints), so when the company closed down Duktus was called upon to respond very quickly to the new situation. In a very short time, the entire range of GKG products had to be moved and split up between existing or new fitting suppliers. Time was pressing. A project team was therefore put together immediately and got down to the hard work of moving the production of the fittings to ensure that we would still be able to supply our customers. In the midst of the turmoil of GKG being wound up, the getting together and transport of the pattern-making equipment for the fittings which, though owned by Duktus, was still stored on GKG’s premises, and the production of the drawings and basic information needed by each of the suppliers for an initial quotation proved to be a particular challenge and test of patience. To safeguard the high quality of the fittings, a The first delivery of volume-produced fittings in May 2011 Newly set up system for the abrasive blasting of fittings at Duktus in Hall decision was made that, in the case of the new suppliers who had now been recruited, the machining, pressure testing and coating of the components concerned would be carried out inhouse by Duktus. To this end, there had to be negotiations with the liquidator of GKG on the purchase of individual machines and systems to enable production to go ahead quickly and inexpensively. Despite tremendous efforts, it was not possible to get all the equipment required into Duktus’s possession by way of negotiation before GKG’s equipment was auctioned. We were therefore compelled to bid for the final machines that were still required by Duktus at the auction of GKG’s equipment on 1 July 2011 in Hall. Because the first batches from volume production were standing in the yard as early as the beginning of May, we were permitted, with the agreement of the liquidator of GKG and even though they did not belong to us as yet, to put certain machines into operation and train suitable personnel on them. Since then, we have been carrying out the operations required on the deliveries from the new suppliers, such as pressure testing, machining, abrasive blasting and coating, at Duktus in Hall. When the project started in January this year, the overriding aim was to ensure security of supply and this, through compromises and improvisation, had to be achieved at all costs. As the delivery season progressed and the number of deliveries of volume-produced parts increased, there was also a steady fall in the risk we ran of not being able to supply our customers properly. Now that the process of doing the post-production work on the fittings has successfully got under way, the important thing is to make full use of this capacity and to organise it in the most economical way. INFORM NO. 3 / 2011 | PAGE 15 Duktus extends the term of its sponsorship of the Waterfalls SOS Children’s village Last year, one of the things that Duktus’s donation to the Waterfalls SOS Children’s Village did was to get a well project for supplying drinking water underway. This made Waterfalls independent of the unreliable water supply from the local municipal utility. For the first six months after the work of drilling the well was completed, the entire drinking water requirements of the SOS families could be covered, as well as the water needed for the vegetable gardens, which make an important contribution to the families’ daily diet. Unfortunately, there has been a severe drop in the amount of water pumped from the well over the past few months. This is due mostly to the nature of the ground, which makes drilling difficult, but also to a lack of technical equipment to enable suitable spots to be calculated accurately. To provide a sustained solution to the problem of water, a second bore of a greater depth is urgently needed. Duktus has therefore decided to extend the term of its sponsorship so that the work needed to extract water successfully can be put in hand with this year’s donation. Gary Birditt, National Director of the SOS Children’s Villages Organisation in Zimbabwe is happy about Duktus’s commitment: “We look upon it as an honour that Duktus is supporting us for another year, and in this way is helping us to implement measures to improve health, but, first and foremost, obtaining a supply of clean water.” The children, mothers and employees at the Waterfalls SOS Children’s Village are soon to have enough clean water available to them again with the help of Duktus’s donation
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