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The Calanbau Augsburg team is installing an extensive sprinkler protection system for the new paper mill at the headquarters of the Palm Group in Aalen-Neukochen. Palm, a family business, is one of the biggest manufacturers of paper and cardboard, from 100% waste paper, in Europe, and a long-time business partner of Calanbau.
At the start of the month, the colleagues in Augsburg received a new order from Palm, this time from Palm in Wörth, also a long-standing customer of Calanbau Augsburg. The paper mill in Wörth is among the most efficient worldwide and boasts a paper machine with a capacity of 650,000 tonnes a year.
The groundbreaking ceremony for modernisation and expansion works at the plant, which in future is to be ecologically-oriented, took place in February. In the course of the modernisation works, among other things a new gas turbine will be installed – the first gas turbine worldwide that can also be operated using hydrogen. The output of the power plant will thus be considerably increased, meaning that it will be able to supply power not just for the paper mill but also for the town of Wörth and for neighbouring communities. A new residue-fired boiler will also be built, in which waste paper sorting residuals will be incinerated.
In addition to a sprinkler, water-spray extinguishing and fire alarm system in the residue-fired boiler house, Calanbau Augsburg will also install a fire monitor extinguishing system and a detection system in the external waste paper storage area. A total of six monitors, with a long range, will provide a rapid and focused response to sources of fire in an area of risk such as a waste paper storage area. The monitors are controlled either automatically by two infrared cameras, manually using touch screens, or by remote control. Calanbau will install a dry sprinkler system in the canopy of the roller store, as, given the temperatures, one must anticipate the risk of frost.
The entire contract is scheduled for completion by June 2021.
