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New contracts and orders in industry
Voith receives record order from South Africa
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etween now and 2025 Voith will deliver a total of 4800 Scharfenberg couplers for 600 new passenger trains in South Africa. This is the largest single order for the delivery of Scharfenberg Couplers in the company’s history. The trains in question belong to the new model
series X’Trapolis Mega from Alstom, which is also being built in South Africa. The Voith couplers will be delivered over a period of 10 years starting in autumn 2014. Apart from 3000 semi-permanent couplers and 600 transitional couplers, the contract also includes 1200 automatic couplers type 10. This type stands out for its high strength and a wide horizontal and vertical gathering range. Since 2002 it has become the standard for highspeed trains, and it is also used in nearly all state railways in the world. This order is an opportunity for Voith to further extend its location in South Africa and to localise its products. Visit: www.voith.com
Technip to extend subsea infrastructure on the North Sea Alvheim field
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echnip has been awarded a contract by Marathon Oil Norge for the extension of subsea infrastructure on the Alvheim field, located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The scope of work includes installation engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation and tie-in of spools and protection covers as well as the installation of one manifold. The subsea operations will mainly be performed with divers at a water-depth of approximately 120 metres in this area. Technip’s operating centre in Stavanger, Norway, will administrate and execute the project, which is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2016. The offshore campaigns will take place in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and will utilise Technip’s state-of-the-art diving support vessel Skandi Arctic, capable of working efficiently through winter in both construction and diving mode.
Züblin awarded large building construction contract in Denmark
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üblin AS, a Danish subsidiary of the publicly listed European construction group STRABAG SE, has been awarded the contract to build the ‘Axeltorv, AT2’ project, a 14-storey multi-use building in Copenhagen city centre. The turnkey agreement with a contract value of about €103 million has already been signed.
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Odd Strømsnes, managing director at Technip in Norway, explains: “This award confirms our leading position as contractor for diving operations in the North Sea. This project will be the second one awarded to Technip for the extension of the existing infrastructure on the Alvheim field, the first one having been executed in 2012 and 2013.” Visit: www.technip.com
Leading the consortium of investors is Denmark’s largest public pension fund ATP. “This is the second building construction contract of such magnitude for the STRABAG Group in Denmark after signing the contract for the ‘Bryghusprojektet’ just seven month earlier,” comments Thomas Birtel, CEO of STRABAG SE. The design by the Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg
Schuler press used to build ‘Soyuz’ rocket
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chuler Waghäusel plant has produced one of its biggest-ever hydraulic lines for state-owned Russian company. The ‘Soyuz’ rockets built by TsSKB-Progress take astronauts and tourists to the International Space Station (ISS), supply them with oxygen, food and spare parts and fire satellites into space. The Russian state-owned company now plans to produce its launch vehicles on a Schuler press as of 2015. The pre-acceptance for the hydraulic line with a press force of 2600 metric tons has already occurred, and is due to be delivered in the end of May. The triple-action press will be used, for example, to produce aluminum tank lids. These must be extremely robust in order to withstand the extreme loads – especially during takeoff. “With bed dimensions of five by six metres, the line is one of the largest hydraulic presses we’ve ever built in Waghäusel,” says Dr Martin Habert, managing director of Schuler in Waghäusel. Carrier rockets are steadily increasing in size in order to transport ever-greater payloads into space. This has led to a growth in the size of components used to assemble the rockets – and the lines on which they are produced. Visit: www.schulergroup.com calls for a 42,000m2 combined office and retail building with public recreational areas, restaurants, cafés and multi sub-level parking facilities on one of Copenhagen’s most frequently visited spots just in front of the main entrance of the internationally-known Tivoli. The project is to be handed over to the client by the end of 2016. Visit: www.strabag.com
