Yards Moving Forward - GL Group
Yards Moving Forward - GL Group Yards Moving Forward - GL Group
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“made in Germany” PHOTOS: MICHAEL HOLLMANN It is well known that, in striving for perfection, Germans tend to complain a lot – and German managers are no exception. The leaden inertia of the bureaucracy and the over-regulation by the state are amongst the enduringly popular topics for a good gripe. Or could these aspects represent an advantage? Peter Breidenich, for one, does not fit into the role of a moaner. The former chief engineer of a destroyer is Head of the Marine Systems Division of Saacke GmbH & Co. KG in Bremen, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of burner systems. The question as to how one could improve the general business conditions in Germany initially causes him to reflect in silence. “Actually, we regard the economic environment to be quite good,” he answers with some hesitation. “Germany is a very important market for us, because the technically demanding ships are still built here. As a marine supplier, we have our finger on the pulse of developments here, and we can watch new technological trends as they emerge.” The company, which generates a turnover of more than 130 million euro worldwide (of which 25 percent is in shipbuilding) with about 800 employees, has managed to grow from a subcontractor to a system supplier, thanks to a lot of ingenuity and a sure instinct. Burners and boilers are needed for just about any type of ship, be it for providing hot water, heating the accommodation spaces or warming up the fuel in the bunker und day tanks, in order to make the heavy fuel-oil liquid enough for combustion. Up until a few years ago, the distribution of labour functioned as follows: Saacke delivered YARDS MOVING FORWARD Things are going better than ever before for the German maritime and offshore supply industry. Many companies have internationalized strongly but remain firmly rooted in Germany. For them, the home country is an important sales market and at the same time a field for experimenting with new technologies. Impressions of the burner production at Saacke Marine in Bremen. Peter Breidenich, Head of Saacke Marine Systems “Germany is a very important market for us” the burners to the boiler manufacturers, who integrated all the components and then sold the complete installations to the yards. But when a concentration took place amongst the boiler makers towards the end of the nineties, and several of Saacke’s partners were taken over or squeezed out of the market, the future of this business was suddenly very shaky indeed. The company bravely decided to take the bull by the horns: to be able to approach the European yards with their own complete systems, the medium-sized enterprise decided to acquire a burner manufacturer in Croatia. In 2003, this move was followed by the founding of their own factory in China, with a view to serving the Asian market better. Whilst the steel parts are built overseas, the burner and control technology still comes from Bremen and is combined at the yards with the matching boilers from China or Croatia. “We have made global networking work well for us,” says Breidenich with some satisfaction. Thanks to their presence in all the major shipbuilding markets, Saacke Marine is benefiting in full measure from the current shipbuilding boom. This year, about 160 plants will be delivered, boosting the firm’s turnover by 15 percent from its previous figure of 30 million euros. The fast movers in the delivery programme are the firing plants for LNG carriers, with which the “boil-off” part of the gas cargo that is produced by the ship’s motion and solar radiation can be burnt safely. “The explosive gas is thus converted into CO 2 , which is still better for the atmosphere than methane,” explains Breidenich. These gas combustion units pack quite a punch: as a result of the combustion process, an output of up to 80 MW is released. nonstop 3/2006 21
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