Issue 35 · September 2010 · 13th year [19th English translation] The latest news magazine from the Group A cold start After a long winter NAUE takes off with ecological benefits The year began cold, very cold. significantly fuel consumption geosynthetics and related profes- The winter held Europe under its can be reduced when compared sionals to be aware of the many thumb until the middle of March. to the transportation cost of con- ways geosynthetics meet these In East Europe, nearly all con- ventional clay sealing to a land- environmental goals. The word struction was stopped during this fill site. For Hillern, the savings must get out. time, and that had an effect on were found to be about 64 % - There is still a great deal of edu- our company’s turnover. But as exactly 4,500 litres with the cational work left to do. the weather improved, so did conventional sealing method construction activities and strong versus just 1,600 litres with the production resumed. Bentofix® GCL. Also at Hillern, CONTENT the installation of Secudrain® in- Gravel columns In the middle of this upturn, stead of conventional gravel carry a van NAUE’s purchasing department drainage has greatly reduced Reinforced embank- observed an unprecedented phe- transportation costs to the site. ment "Marina Isla de nomenon to recent manufactur- A major reduction in CO2 emis- Valdecañas", Spain ing decades: raw material prices sions was achieved in this project rose continuously and perma- by installing Secu drain® along The next 100 years nently. The price for polypropyl- with Bentofix®. The overall re- ene (PP), for example, went up duction resulted in an 80 % re- about 40 %. As price escalation duction in CO2 emissions. Not NAUE shores up clauses are not practicable in only is the geosynthetic solution Schwarze Elster’s most construction projects, the the right long-term, strong per- detour price risk remains entirely with NAUE products in non-European are contributing to the health of NAUE Secugrid® and Combigrid® formance choice for the project, the producer, though the risk countries. many sectors. These solutions are reinforcement geogrids can dra- but significant environmental NAUE helps transform a former ash landfill should be divided between the The current market situation in providing cost controls and other matically reduce the intensity of benefits are being realized. builder, construction company Southern Europe, however, is dif- benefits that are helping to make high volume soil transportation These examples show once again A roadway noise and manufacturer. ficult, particularly in Spain and these sectors more competitive. for depositing purposes of e.g. that the utilization of geosyn- barrier inspired by Italy. Many Southern European Some examples: soil replacement material. The thetics help conserve resources, landfill design The present situation: good countries are still very engaged Germany’s federal government use of NAUE geogrids can addi- are eco-friendly, and reduce Currently we are forecasting an in coping with the financial cri- wants to reduce the intensity of tionally reduce the required ag- greenhouse gas pollution. With NAUE circumnavigates increase in turnover of greater sis, and their construction sectors goods transportation in Ger- gregate thickness in roads and nearly 190 governments having Polish city than a double-digit percentage. are not yet healthy. Also, the many, but in 2008 the exact op- therefore contribute again to the signed the Kyoto Protocol for Leading the way in this pro- credit ratings of several construc- posite occurred. The transporta- reduction of the transportation greenhouse gas reduction, and NAUE America receives duction surge are the Far East, tion companies are weak. The tion intensity increased. Because intensity. with an increasing body of re- honor from Emergency Middle East and North America challenge nowadays is to identify of this, a reduction of over 20 % search supporting the economic Training Center regions. The weakness of the the most solvent companies for is needed. The application of The use of 36,000 m² Bentofix® and performance benefits of Euro is contributing positively stronger projects. geosynthetics can help to achieve geosynthetic clay liner in the greener engineering and life-cy- Further information: www.naue.com to the increase in demand for NAUE’s geosynthetic solutions that aim. The installation of Hillern landfill has shown how cle analysis, it is important for Back to the roots ThyssenKrupp moves its administrative headquarters to Essen, NAUE seals off parts of the Krupp Belt Essen, Germany. Rarely has a Of the 1.5 million square metres GmbH & Co. KG company from Picture: Peter Wieler, Essen Marketing GmbH construction project received this of built-up area of the Krupp plant Essen to lay out 150,000 square much attention than the so- in Essen about two-thirds are metres of needle-punched Bento- called Krupp Belt in Essen. The completely destroyed and another fix® NSP 4900 geosynthetic clay term refers to an area of 230 third is partially destroyed after liner, on both sides of the hectares that is situated between the end of WW II. The allied pow- Berthold-Beitz Boulevard (Krupp- the western district of the inner ers ordered many of the function- Park and ThyssenKrupp Quartier), city of Essen and the Altendorf ing machines to be de-installed wherever there are green or empty district of Essen. Up until the end and transported abroad for repa- spaces. 150,000 square metres of of World War II, the Krupp cast rations. Ever since then, the huge the three-dimensional drainage steel factories that were founded area is an industrial wasteland system Secu drain® were installed by Friedrich Krupp in 1811 were at the centre of the Ruhr area. on top of the clay liner to ensure located here. When it was The turn came in 2006, when that the water is drained off. founded, the city of Essen ThyssenKrupp AG decided to re- counted 3,500 inhabitants, and structure its administrative sites At the time the Executive Board roughly eighty years later there and announced, that it would re- Picture: Presse- und Kommunikationsamt, Stadtbildstelle of ThyssenKrupp AG, together are 100,000, of which 30,000 locate its headquarters from Düs- ern and eastern part. The person with the more than 2,000 admin- work at Krupp. At the beginning seldorf to Essen. Thyssen Krupp after whom the boulevard is hectare is on the west side of the sions of the area are. Because, the istrative employees, moves to its of the 20th century, the number will locate a majority of its ad- named, Berthold Beitz, is the hon- Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard; on the quantities of product that NAUE new quarters in the summer of of employees even increased to ministrative buildings, with more orary chairman of ThyssenKrupp east side of the Berthold-Beitz- must deliver are just as gigantic. 2010 and looks over the Berthold- 80,000. The company in the than 100,000 square metres, in AG and an honorary citizen of Boulevard there are the already In order to dispel any doubts that Beitz-Boulevard to the Krupp- western part of town expanded the so-called ThyssenKrupp quar- the cities of Essen, Bochum and mentioned 29 hectares of rainwater will find a way through Park, then they will know that and the Krupp Belt came ever ters, an area that covers 29 Kiel. The first two segments, with ThyssenKrupp-Quartier. the industrial soil into the ground- rain is particularly good for the closer to the centre of town. The hectares in the Krupp Belt. a total length of 1.3 kilometres This short history is important to water, the consortium of Heinrich Krupp Belt. Because the rain- square footage of the Krupp Belt The four-lane Berthold-Beitz were opened in 2009. The 22 understand what special role the Walter Bau GmbH Borken and water drained off by NAUE pro- is three times as large as the in- Boulevard cuts through the Krupp hectares large Krupp Park, with Krupp Belt has for the Ruhr area EUROVIA Teerbau GmbH NL ducts feeds the large lake in the ner city of Essen itself. Belt and separates it into a west- five hills and a lake of almost one and just how gigantic the dimen- Bottrop assigned the von Witzke Krupp-Park. 2 Gravel columns carry a van NAUE Secugrid® Proves Stability at University of Weimar Test 10 June 2010 – Roughly 120 fell and the vehicle weight could Did you know…? visitors came to the renowned be observed settling in the tires, Bauhaus University Weimar re- the reinforced columns held. cently for a Department of Civil More than 2,200 kg (4,800 lbs) That NAUE took part in the Engineering event entitled “En- stood firmly and safely upon 9th International Conference on ergy. Experiment. Experience.” Secu grid®’s strength. Geosynthetics Brazil (ICG 2010 Test trials in the lab have been Brazil) from 23rd – 27th May executed preliminary. The same with a booth and several inter- columns have withstood a total esting lectures were held by load of more than 3,000 kg. This NAUE engineers? load refers to the pressure on the bottom of a family home. NAUE also participated in the BRATISLAVA 2010, the XIVth The audience, media representa- Danube-European Conference on Geotechnical Engineering loading test in the laboratory tives and civil engineering pro- fessors were enthusiastic. The from 2nd – 4th June in Brati- One of the event’s highlights in- Bauhaus University Weimar, De- slava with a booth and contrib- cluded the first public testing of partment of Civil Engineering uted lectures to the programme. geogrid-reinforced stone columns which the car was supported. into the formwork with NAUE geogrid cannot support that,” faculty, had successfully demon- The main topic of the confe- - using a 2.2-ton vehicle.