Keil Anlagenbau won the contract for the expansion of a solvent tank farm at the Reinbek site near Hamburg.

Keil Anlagenbau has been awarded the contract for an extensive tank farm in Rhineland-Palatinate. The largest and most modern insulation plant in Europe is being built on a 30,000m² site on the former factory premises of a wood-based materials manufacturer.

The success of new plant technology is not solely based on the hardware and software installed. Equally important in the project is the safe and motivated handling of the systems.

For this reason, we as plant engineers focus our attention on the intensive familiarisation and training of the operating personnel, and not only or only during commissioning.

How did you come to specialise in polyurethanes?

H.-J. Keil: Keil worked as a heating construction company for private and commercial customers. One day Heinrich Stagge, a trained master weigher and head of the workshop and maintenance of the raw materials warehouse at Elastogran (now BASF), asked if some Keil employees in the raw materials warehouse could help with repair and maintenance work on a permanent basis. This mainly involved welding work.

For the production of insulating foam for pipelines, Keil Anlagenbau has been awarded the contract to supply a storage system for pentane including safety equipment. The pentane will be used for the production of PU foam for the insulation of an oil pipeline from Uganda to the coast of Tanzania.

The client originated in 2016 from the idea of the founder, who previously worked in the field of asbestos board disposal, to recycle insulation boards and reprocess them into new boards, according to the principles of Cradle to Cradle.

Keil Anlagenbau was able to complete a tank farm for the expansion of a production site in Baden-Würtemberg at the beginning of the year.

The company has been producing high-quality wheels and castors "Made in Germany" since the 1950s. With its numerous employees, the company sells its high-quality, durable and maintenance-free wheels and castors worldwide.

Often, tank tops and the pipes are porous, corroded and full of holes. A temporary repair with liquid metal filler often does not lead to the desired result. Together with our partner, we offer the renovation of your dome shaft as a long-term solution which saves you from a time-consuming and cost-intensive complete tank replacement.

Everyone is talking about the Paris Agreement on climate protection.

It aims to limit the average temperature increase to 2 °C, preferably 1.5 °C. For industrial companies, production without CO2 emissions is not possible. For this reason, climate neutrality must be the goal for industry. According to the principle of climate neutrality, as much CO2 must be bound as was previously emitted. It is therefore not only necessary to reduce CO2 emissions, but also to find ways to bind the emitted CO2 again, for example by reforesting forests or developing solutions for recycling materials.

The current issue 03/2023 of Kunststoffe Magazin reports on the innovative recycling concept of Keil Anlagenbau. It is about the resource-saving recycling of production residues from the manufacture of flexible slabstock foams.