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CLEANER POWER Technology provider Standardkessel GmbH, together with its sister company Baumgarte, has amassed more than 160 years of experience ‘full of energy’ in the industrial and municipal power plant sector. Industry Europe spoke to sales and marketing manager Detlef Simon to find out more. Emma-Jane Batey reports.
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eadquartered in Duisburg, just north of Düsseldorf in Germany, technology supplier Standardkessel GmbH, alongside its sister company Baumgarte Boiler Systems, which supplies complete systems for energy from waste, is actively looking forward to the next chapter in its history. In 2010 the company celebrated its 85th anniversary, and Baumgarte’s 75th anniversary, giving the group an accumulated 160 years of providing power plant solutions and components across Europe and beyond. This milestone gave the company the perfect reason to both reflect on its success and make a clear plan to be well-positioned to continue to deliver customer- and environmentally-focused power plant solutions.
Total power solutions Standardkessel supplies complete systems and components for power plants, both for industrial and municipal energy needs. Using four different forms of energy creation – biomass, heat recovery downstream gas turbines, energy from waste and coal, gas and oil – Standardkessel prides itself on always being able to deliver a power plant solution that meets the precise needs of each customer. Sales and marketing manager Detlef Simon explained, “We have a very strong balance of customisable solutions and standard components, which allows us to tailor-make each and every plant so that it is perfectly in tune with the demands of the customer, whether
that is an urban municipality or a paper mill. We have our own engineering team and we manufacture the boiler components in close co-operation with specialised and reliable long-term partners.” With our broad band of different technical solutions we have always the right one to offer. The concept-to-completion approach to power plant delivery is a cornerstone of Standardkessel’s continued success. The company appreciates that its strength comes from its long-term experience and wide range of reference plants across different applications. This range of projects over many years, coupled with its tailor-made focus, means that Standardkessel Baumgarte understands the varying needs of
