Press Announcements 2005

Buchen KraftwerksService and FILTRATEC: Fruitful collaboration between Buchen KraftwerkService and FILTRATEC at the E.ON Heyden power station [19.12.2005]
On the basis of an order placed by our customer, E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH, an air preheater cleaning operation was carried out successfully at Heyden power station in October under the stewardship of Buchen KraftwerkService GmbH, Cologne...[more]

Buchen SanierungsService: Asbestos and PCB remediation in Switzerland [14.12.2005]
Asbestos remediation at St. Alban's school: The building department of Basle city canton commissioned Buchen's Karlsruhe office to decontaminate one of the schools in its jurisdiction, St. Alban's, in collaboration with a Swiss partner enterprise...[more]

Buchen now represented in the Baltic as well [12.12.2005]
The new Buchen subsidiary, Buchen Industrial Services Baltik OÜ, was officially established in Tallinn, Estonia, on November 24, 2005. The subsidiary is to serve as a platform for developing the eastern European market...[more]

Cooperation agreement concluded with Octel Environmental Ltd. [01.12.2005]
More than a year's negotiation came to end in November 2005 when Buchen signed a cooperation agreement with the English company, Octel Environmental Ltd., concerning the joint decommissioning of leading plants...[more]

Automated tank cleaning now available in the UK, Lithuania and Romania [15.11.2005]
Last year Buchen took its closed-circuit BTS tank cleaning process to refineries in the UK, Lithuania and Romania for the first time. United Kingdom: At the beginning of July 2005 a project got under was to clean a large tank (No. 100) at the Lindsey Oil Refinery...[more]

Out and about – turnaround in Romania [13.11.2005]
To coincide with a shutdown of the Petromidia Refinery operated by Rompetrol in Constanta on the Black Sea in Romania, Buchen was engaged to remove a total of 211 heat exchangers, subject them to high-pressure cleaning inside and out at a washing station...[more]

10th anniversary of SCC** certification [28.10.2005]
The safety of our employees while working for Buchen ranks among the primary corporate goals. In the last ten years we have made every effort inside the company to enhance industrial safety. We have systematically employed internal and external...[more]

Supplier Recognition award from Dow [27.10.2005]
In September 2005 Buchen was selected by Dow for its "Supplier Recognition" award. This prize is presented annually by Dow to its best European supplier according to a formalised appraisal model. Buchen has been supplying Dow...[more]

F.-J. Englisch appointed to the SCC subsector committee [21.10.2005]
Franz-Josef Englisch, managing director of Buchen KraftwerkService GmbH, was unanimously appointed as a permanent member of the SCC subsector committee of the DGMK, the German Scientific Society for Crude Oil, Natural Gas and Coal, at its meeting...[more]

... at the forefront of the agricultural industry [30.08.2005]
Some curious objects were discovered during the emptying of two silted-up biogas containers (fermenters) in the mountainous Eifel region of western Germany. Golf balls, various hammers and metal plates ranked among the more harmless finds, but an alert worker...[more]

Heavy goods en route in Germany from Dochtersen to Kelsterbach [27.08.2005]
In May 2005 our customer, IRB (Industrie-Rohr-Bau GmbH), placed an order with us to transport a fractionating tower weighing 40 metric tons from Dochtersen in the north of Germany to Ticona, a company located in Kelsterbach near Frankfurt/Main in central Germany...[more]

Chemical cleaning of the sanitary vacuum system on board the ferry, MS St. Petersburg [20.08.2005]
Ferries and passenger vessels generally dispose of numerous toilets, but building-type soil pipes cannot be installed because of the ships' design. For this reason, the sewage is removed by vacuum systems, in much the same way as it is in aircraft...[more]

Dismantling, cleaning and disposal of the gasholder in Ingolstadt [10.08.2005]
After a service life spanning more than 50 years, the dry or disk-type gasometer of the Ingolstadt municipal utility was no longer required in view of its outdated technology. Buchen won the order to clean and dismantle this local landmark...[more]

International News: New Buchen subsidiary in the Netherlands! [20.07.2005]
In August 2004 Dow called for bids for the industrial cleaning contract of its largest European facility in Terneuzen, the Netherlands. Thirteen industrial cleaning companies were invited to submit an offer. Buchen was the only German enterprise to satisfy the preconditions...[more]

Buchen SanierungsService: Redevelopment of former goods yard in Freiburg-Wiehre [08.07.2005]
The 2.5-hectare territory of the former railway goods yard in Freiburg-Wiehre, which was built at the end of the 1800s is to be cleared and redeveloped as an exclusive suburban residential estate. In the early 1990s investigations revealed a varied spectrum of pollutants site...[more]

Dismantling a decommissioned tank farm [28.06.2005]
In January 2005 Buchen received an inquiry from Erftcarbon of Grevenbroich in western Germany, concerning the cleaning of six tanks at a decommissioned coal tar tank farm. Since coal tar is naturally hard when cold and the tanks were largely full...[more]

Recovery and disposal of underground storage tanks containing smoke-screen acid [26.05.2005]
Remedial work being carried out at an industrial site in Erlangen in southern Germany revealed 10 underground storage tanks containing smoke-screen acid from the Second World War. Smoke-screen acids comprise titanium or silicon tetrachloride...[more]

Cleaning operation at food production facility [05.04.2005]
Every spring the Cerestar facility in Barby, Germany, undertakes a general cleaning operation – and 2005 was no exception. The plant processes cereals in a variety of production plants. Since this is a food facility, special preparations have to be made...[more]

Decommissioning a leading plant in Fos sur Mer in the south of France [02.02.2005]
The most recently completed TEL plant decommissioning project with Novoktan took place at the end of 2004 at the ESSO refinery in Fos sur Mer. Site preparation work got under way at the end of September 2004. All the equipment was transported...[more]

Active role for Buchen in tsunami relief effort [28.01.2005]
Just a little more than a year ago we were all horrified by the natural catastrophe in Southeast Asia and its consequences, which triggered an unprecedented aid effort. Buchen was among those that were able actively to contribute to the tsunami relief programme...[more]