Bilfinger has been commissioned by lubricant manufacturer FUCHS to install modern production equipment and piping systems at its new blending plant in Haninge near Stockholm. The Swedish Bilfinger team will weld approximately 15,000 welding joints between stainless-steel pipes, oil tanks, pumps, valves, and other connecting pieces. Valued in the single-digit million euro range, the work will be carried out by Bilfinger between July and December 2019. The contract comes under Bilfinger’s Engineering & Maintenance service line.
Drawing on its expertise in meeting the exceptional technical challenge of welding pipes made from metal alloys, Bilfinger Industrial Services in Sweden will be installing the equipment and the piping systems. Around 40% of the pipes are to be pre-assembled at Bilfinger in Stenungsund (Sweden). This will make on-site installation even more efficient.
The tanks at the new FUCHS plant will have dedicated pipes for raw materials to the blending units. This will reduce the amount of flushing and waste oil in the future. Since the systems consist of stainless-steel pipes, the laborious process of coating the carbon steel pipes used previously can additionally be dispensed with.
