Deutsche Giessdraht GmbH, a company of Aurubis Group Deutschland, was faced with the tasks to not only keep its more than 40-year-old shaft furnace for copper rod production competitive, but also comply with higher environmental, safety and emission requirements.
A great challenge of the modernization project was a limited timeframe since only a summer shutdown period of maximum three weeks is available every year to make sure that customers are otherwise continuously supplied.
In a close contact, an unconventional concept was created considering customer-specific requests. The complete conversion work was divided into two construction stages to make it possible that revamping was carried out within scheduled stoppages. Only through close and cooperative partnership of all persons involved the implementation could be realized within the specified time interval on time and completely.