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Multifunctional: Teaching tool: WALDNER Science Room Manager

Strong alliance: Cooperation between OCS and WALDNER

aWarD PreSenteD: WALDNER Process Systems wins Innovation Award

From the Allgäu region to riyAdh large-scale wAldNEr project in the Kingdom

eFFiciency At work wAldNEr doSoMAT for meat-packaging

THE NEW CUSTOMER MAGAZINE EDITION 1 I 2013

CONTENTS EdiTOrial

„Nothing is as constant as change“ – as the old saying goes. Medium-sized companies, on WaldNEr‘s scale, also, or possibly especially, take this saying to heart, as their success depends directly on it. in our industry, change is an integral part of our business. it‘s not just the fact that, at Hermann WaldNEr, every machine – whether a dOSOMaT, cooking line or isolator – is made-to-measure for every customer, and therefore different solutions are developed and fitted every time. WaldNEr laboreinrichtungen also faces constant changes in the world of research: an exciting and challenging environment that drives us forward towards excellence.

as change is so omnipresent for us, we are pleased to present today the first edition of our new customer magazine, the successor to the WaldNEr Brief. WaldNEr World will report on current topics from within WaldNEr, as well as on trends and developments in the laboratory or packaging sectors. it will be published once a year and will be available in German and English.

We will continue to report on WaldNEr projects – after all, that‘s our daily bread. You‘ll also find further information that will illustrate the relationships, even within WaldNEr itself. WaldNEr World will also establish a personal link to the authors of the articles, as well as to the people who work at WaldNEr. That‘s why we will be introducing to you in future men and women who have interesting roles at WaldNEr.

One of our objectives is to have a more intensive dialogue with you and WaldNEr World will offer us both a forum for this. We would really welcome your feedback about our new custo-mer magazine: you can use the Qr code below for this.

as a rule we will list the writer‘s e-mail address for every article, which will enable you to contact us or the author of the article immediately to request more information or comment on the topic from your point of view.

We look forward to a lively exchange with you and hope that WaldNEr World positions us at the cutting edge, equipped to face constant change – today and in the future.

Kind regards, Helmut Hirner

Helmut HirnerManaging Director

3 EdiTOrial

4 FlExiBlE SHapE FOr CaTS aNd OTHEr THiNGS

6 HOW iS CrEaM CHEESE FillEd iNTO CupS?

8 Meat PackageD efficiently

10 aWard prESENTEd

12 TEaCHiNG MadE EaSiEr

13 YOu‘rE iN THE FrONT rOW WiTH

WaldNEr laBOrEiNriCHTuNGEN

16 THE TalK iS OF COMplEx TOpiCS

20 inStalleD in a kingDoM

22 KNOWlEdGE aNd ExpErTiSE iN dual paCKS

23 revieW of the WalDner corPorate grouP

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Mr Angele, you understand DOSOMAT systems bet-ter than anyone else in the company. You‘ve been working in this division for 40 years and were per-sonally involved in the evolution of these machines. What makes WALDNER DOSOMATS so successful?

i think that our success can be attributed to several factors. Firstly, we are a down-to-earth, well-organ-ised medium-sized company that has been in exist-ence for over a century and has always been own-er-managed. This is an incredible factor in terms of stability, something that is very beneficial to a com-pany of our size and something that our customers greatly appreciate. in addition, we have been man-ufacturing filling and closing machines for over 60 years. We understand our customers‘ problems and develop the appropriate solutions to solve them. No one has more experience than WaldNEr! This wealth of experience and the professionalism of our employees are further factors that customers real-ly appreciate about our company. They know that they have a reliable partner in WaldNEr, a com-pany that understands the industry and its needs. However, there‘s also a lot of luck involved – with the benefit of hindsight i realise that we did a lot of things correctly by intuition.

You have supplied over 3,000 of these machines worldwide that are currently in operation with cus-tomers. How do you organise the delivery of spare parts or repairs?

We are proud of the fact that international cor-porations, like Kraft Foods (philadelphia), Nestlé, unilever, Bongrain, Hochland, Karwendel (Exquisa), General Mills, the Mars Group and also Campbell – to name but a few – use dOSOMaTS to fill their products. Of course, we also have to guarantee these customers global customer service. We have fitters here in our factory for this, who immediately attend to customers if faults occur and we also have partners on the ground, who can be with custom-ers within a very short space of time. What is more, as far as possible we aim to hold all common spare parts in stock so that we can ensure a fast delivery.

Nevertheless, your customer base doesn‘t just con-sist of global corporations, but a number of smaller food producers or cheese dairies as well. How can you meet these different needs: on the one hand large-volume production with precise filling and fast packaging and, in contrast, reliable output, minimal space and manual work?

That is precisely one of our unique strengths: we design and build machines with a large range of capacities. The small dOSOMaT 1.1 is a rotary machine producing up to 6,000 cups. By contrast, our largest system, the dOSOMaT 20.48 , fills over 100,000 cups per hour on 48 lines. So, as you can see, we have the right solution in our range for every customer.

The media are forever discussing the issue of shelf-life. How do DOSOMATS help with a product‘s shelf-life and how is the shelf-life of a product filled by a WALDNER system improved?

We have three methods for ensuring aseptic fill-ing: We equip the inline or rotary machines with a uvC lamp that uses uv radiation to sterilise the cups. The latest technology that we use for steri-lisation is the uvC flash light (pulse light) and, as standard, we often still sterilise our packaging with H2O2 (peroxide). Customers can select the meth-od that works best for them and, for our part, we guarantee reliable hygienic processing and a longer shelf-life.

How do you deal with the needs of customers who wish to operate several product lines on one sys-tem? Is that even possible? And, if so, what are the preconditions?

as this is a major concern for our customers, we design the systems in such a way that they can run as many product lines on them.We call this solution „format change“. all our machines can be equipped with a quick-change system, by means of which the formats can be swapped quickly and easily. This format change can also be done fully automatically. Several formats are already mounted on the machine and are then placed in position using servo technology.

Why are DOSOMATS fully electronically equipped with servo motors today and no longer with me-chanical motion?

We wouldn‘t be here today, where we are now, without modern servo technology in the controllers for our dOSOMaTS. Our customers expect maxi-mum flexibility from us. Servo technology enables us not only to achieve maximum system speed, but it means that we can also service a system or run software updates remotely. it is important that cus-tomers can operate the system as far as possible themselves, to keep our work to a minimum and save them money. We were also able to use servo technology to develop an intuitive user interface that aids the simple operation of the system. None of this would have been possible with the mechan-ical motors of the past, especially not that packag-ing systems have ever-increasing dimensions, as is so often the case.That‘s why we switched to this technology over ten years ago. Today, 100% of all dOSOMaTS and end packaging systems run with servo technology.

By [email protected]

From global corporations to small cheese dairies – DOSOMATS can be found everywhere

high-performance, reliable, unique – you could use these three

words to define a dOSOMaT filling and closing machine. WaldNEr

has enjoyed great success for over 60 years with this machine and,

in recent years, turnover has grown from just under E 40 million

to over E 60 million. Why do so many customers put their trust in

WaldNEr filling systems? What is so special about dOSOMaTS?

and are there finite limits when it comes to customers‘ requirements?

We wanted to get to the bottom of this success story and so

approached the Managing director of Hermann WaldNEr –

Karl angele:

HOW iS CrEaM CHEESE FillEd iNTO CupS?THE dOSOMaT SuCCESS STOrY – aN iNTErviEW WiTH MaNaGiNG dirECTOr Karl aNGElE

The dOSOMaT 12.8 is a sophisticated machine that has been tested over decades and is designed to be servo-driven with a virtual shaft. all func-tions can be flexibly adapted to the most diverse products and packaging materials: for instance, aluminium packaging can be changed to plastic within minutes.

Minimal wear, flexible handling: qualities that give these machines a cen-tral role in meat processing. The plant often runs with three-shift opera-tion and with minimal staffing – meeting maximum targets in terms of discharge volume and error rate. „Fail-safe operation“ and „Zero down-time“, really concepts from the pharmaceutical industry, are increasing-ly discussed here when it comes to producing large volumes of cheap products with low profit margins trouble-free. The systems have to be ultra-simple to operate and maintenance work needs to be as minimal as possible – „continuous operation“ is the aim. That‘s why the relevant user level settings are locked and can only be altered by trained and appropri-ately qualified personnel.

With high output volumes (up to 20,000 units per hour), customers have to be able to rely on no poorly closed or even open cups entering the ster-ilisation process. Over-metering is consciously avoided by the ultra-precise

metering capacity of the dOSOMaT 12.8 – daily savings are correspondingly huge.

The developers even had one eye on the future with the initial design of these packaging systems: dOSOMaTS are flexible in terms of format. That means that they designed, as standard, so that other packaging forms can be run on them.

WaldNEr designed the machine for the Serbian meat processor with manual cleaning. The metering system can be removed from the dOSOMaTS and cleaned „near“ the machine to achieve „Cleaning in place“ as far as possible even with this type of cleaning, without the need to dis-mantle all the component parts. This prevents soiling of the worktop and machine, as well as contamination of the operator and, above all, the metering process per se – it is not necessary to throw parts all together into a cleaning vessel, reducing possible damage to each other.

Customers receive the same technology and detailed solu-tions even with similar inline dOSOMaTS, capable of pro-viding capacities of up to 100,000 units per hour.

By [email protected]

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MEaT paCKaGEd EFFiCiENTlYdOSOMaTS HavE prOvEd THEMSElvES aS a CONSTaNT iN THE pâTé BuSiNESS

vegetarian in Belgrade? a difficult matter.

„You eat bread, you love meat“*: a mantra that

holds true in the Serbian capital. Correspondingly

a lot of meat is used in Balkan cooking. WaldNEr

delivered a new high-performance dOSOMaT

12.8 to one of the largest meat processors in

Serbia, a regular customer. This plant processes

40 g and 75 g cups of pâté at a capacity of

20,000 units per hour.

* Source: Thomas roser, die presse

Type 12.8. 40 g 75 g

20,000 units

Crucial when being considered for an award: the components, ap-paratus, systems or processes have to stand out significantly from the state-of-the-art known to date. They also have to feature a persuasive new development or product evolution.WaldNEr process Systems won the award in the pharmaceutical/Clean room Technology cat-egory for its newly developed WaldNEr docking system. This system now enables pressure vessels (up to 6 bar) to be „docked“ to an isolator for fill-ing/weighing. WaldNEr devel-oped the new docking system in response to the ever-increasing demand for isolators with ves-sels attached, which are used to weigh highly active substances directly in a preparation vessel under the most stringent user

protection. With the new system, WaldNEr‘s engineers succeeded in circumventing the well-known disadvantages of the systems al-ready on the market, e.g. dual flaps or rapid-transfer ports.

The new WaldNEr docking system is already used on a daily basis by a number of customers and five other systems are currently in production. in addition to the docking system, process Systems also has other ingen-ious combinations in its prod-ucts range, like isolators with integrated vacuum drying cab-inets or fixed welded prepara-tion vessels.

By [email protected]

aWard prESENTEdWaldNEr prOCESS SYSTEMS WiNS THE iNNOvaTiON aWard

Technopharm, Nuremberg: For the 6th time in april, the trade

media, process, pharmaTec und Schüttgut, presented the

innovation award during the trade fair. The jury selected the

most innovative equipment and processes from the chemical,

pharmaceutical and process engineering sectors.

The mobile 250-litre preparation vessel is moved under the isolator. Transport aids simplify the exact positioning of the vessel under the port.

The port is lowered (either manually or pneumatically with the new systems) and the vessel is connected firmly and securely to the isolator by an inflated seal.

When the isolator is securely connected to the vessel (image 2), the lid of the isolator (with the inflatable seal) can be opened.

The lid of the vessel is opened in the next step. The lid is secured by two safety provisions to prevent accidental opening in the event of excess pressure in the vessel.

140 mm opening free from obstruction A funnel can be used for filling to keep contamination of the space between the isolator and the vessel to a minimum. This extends to the vessel and can also be fixed and sealed to the isolator chamber with an inflatable seal.

Once filling has been completed, the funnel is removed and the lid is replaced on the vessel. The gap can then be cleaned with the isolator‘s spray gun or, alternatively, automatic cleaning can be started once the lid has been replaced on the isolator.

The WALDNER docking system includes the following features:

• No need to lift the preparation vessel for „docking“

• No flap plates in the filling opening: the complete opening

(approximately 140 mm) is free from obstruction

• The vessel remains under pressure despite the docking system and

can be operated at a pressure of 6 bar without the need for an

additional lid.

• Automatic cleaning of the docking system prior to „undocking“

• Protection against accidental opening under pressure

• No additional dust vacuum system is needed

• Minimal height

• Sturdy construction

• The vessel can be opened without a matching part for

maintenance purposes

Full view of an isolator with docked conical preparation vessel

Jochen Eißler (middle), Head of Process Systems, is thrilled about the award.

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TEaCHiNG MadE EaSiErTHE NEW WaldNEr SCiENCE rOOM MaNaGEr

Just imagine that you enter a classroom, touch a touch screen and

automatically start all the students‘ pCs in the room. Just two more clicks –

and you‘ve enabled their individual drives and handed out classwork

electronically. pie in the sky? No, rather a scenario that‘s possible, thanks to

the new WaldNEr Science room Manager in conjunction with an ipad.

Makes dealing with the entire IT service in the school laboratory much simpler: the WALDNER Science Room Manager.

The Science room Manager (abbreviated to: SrM), recently developed by WaldNEr in cooperation with an iT partner, is a software that combines the complexity of a school laboratory with an iT connection (i.e. server, interactive whiteboard, student and teacher laptops) in a simple user in-terface. it is now possible to utilise the iT infrastructure in the school lab-oratory and, what is more, the iT and multimedia equipment in natural sciences has been totally thought through. The result is a user-friendly solution with a self-explanatory software interface and complete freedom of teaching for teachers.lesson design, file and user administration, as well as workplace manage-ment, can be controlled with a couple of clicks. So it is now possible to reserve classrooms, manage individual users, distribute software, centrally maintain all students‘ pCs and monitor their internet use.Christian Eineder, Managing director of WaldNEr labor- und Schulein-richtungen GmbH, explains the motivation behind offering customers an SrM as follows: „i am convinced that iT, particularly tablet pCs and soft-ware, will massively increase in importance in modern teaching, providing it simplifies day-to-day teaching and creates new opportunities.“

alongside its Science room Manager, WaldNEr has another iT solution for customers: room control using an ipad in conjunction with the SCala service wing. it is now possible to remotely regulate a range of services (e.g. gas, water, electricity and iT), as well as various building services functions, like obscuration, light and room climate, at any time, as well as enabling services for teachers and students at the touch of a tablet pC.and yet that‘s still not enough: the room management app permits the wireless visualisation of presentation, image, film and teaching apps on the screen by linking the ipad directly to the projector integrated in the system. Both the SrM and the WaldNEr app can be connected to the existing school server and teachers can therefore project their teaching materials directly onto the wall.

By [email protected]

IT plays a key role in classrooms today – WALDNER recognised the trend.

Whether quickly and easily assigning authorisations or reserving rooms with ease: the Science Room Manager has proved itself to be extremely user-friendly.

„lights, camera, 23rd take for landliebe products. and … action!“ do you think

you‘re on a set with alpine meadows and Swiss Brown cattle? Or at the recording of a

commercial for yoghurt? Not quite. These scenes are completely being shot in Wangen –

in the WaldNEr laboreinrichtungen showroom. How come? See for yourself….

YOu‘rE iN THE FrONT rOW WiTH WaldNEr laBOrEiNriCHTuNGENTHE SCala SHOWrOOM iN WaNGEN iS iN GrEaT dEMaNd – FrOM ard* TO WaldMaNN aNd WEll-KNOWN pHarMaCEuTiCal COMpaNiES.

Companies like using our show laboratory as a reference lab.

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„We are looking for a genuine modern laboratory environment. and chanced upon the name WaldNEr. is it possible to shoot a real-life laboratory situation at your company?“ was the question posed by an ard* Tv location scout in the spring of this year. a little later, the entire crew showed up: prop manager, technicians and lighting operatives to the director himself.

WaldNEr‘s showroom is very popular – not just as the location for Tv Saturday evening films, but it also offers such a realistic laborato-ry environment that WaldNEr is receiving more and more requests for the most diverse purposes.For WaldNEr itself, it is important to have a showroom that of-fers visitors a realistic laboratory environment and also showcases

*ard - association of German public Service Broadcasters

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The showroom offers the perfect setting for Waldmann, DURAN Group or Eppendorf product shoots.

The show room in Wangen is a veritable quick-

change artist. Hands-on experience of its many

technical and creative options is the crucial reason

for potential customers opting for the WALDNER

laboratory system.

The showroom is transformed into an environmental laboratory for an ARD shoot.

different philosophies when it comes to laboratory furniture -„Our showroom is intended to show customers all the options available to them with our laboratory furniture system,“ comments Stefan Holler, Head of Marketing at WaldNEr laboreinrichtungen, explaining the concept. Customers, whether investors or architects, laboratory operators or designers, laboratory managers and users, can evaluate every detail here – for instance how the pipes are routed in the service spine or how the individual extension stages of the service ceiling are constructed. and at the same time they can visit our production facilities to see how our laboratory furniture is manufactured. „For the firs time, customers can see here in Wangen how their laboratory might look. That‘s why our showroom is incredibly important to us and our cus-tomers,“ stresses the Marketing expert. Over 800 customers take advantage of this offer every year by visiting Wangen. it also repre-sents a critical milestone in customers‘ decision-making processes, not just because they can experience the laboratory furniture undis-turbed and configure their own laboratory, but also because they can obtain advice directly on site.

Many WaldNEr customers also use the showroom in Wangen as a training venue. away from their day to day business, they can ex-perience the laboratory at first hand and, should they have questions,

they can get to grips with the product directly. „Our customers really appreciate that. We take care of everything and also organise relevant speakers, if required,“ continues Stefan Holler.

The showroom is available to an-yone who needs a laboratory environment, for instance a bio tech company that trains its customers at WaldNEr. Or Waldmann leuchttechnik and the duran Group, which are both shooting im-ages for new product brochures in a modern laboratory environ-ment. Eppendorf also uses the Wangen showroom to present its products in an authentic environment. WaldNEr itself holds training sessions for deal-ers or presents its product inno-vations in its own showroom.

„We never cease to be sur-prised by what companies use our showroom for,“ smiles the Marketing Manager. Waldmann fitted its own new task lighting, duran played around with di-verse solutions and colours and

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ard transformed the showroom in Wangen within hours into an environmental laboratory that resembled a greenhouse.

„it‘s great that our showroom regularly comes to life. Just as we had hoped for. The more seminars, training sessions or events that we hold here, the more worthwhile our efforts have been,“ states

Stefan Holler with pleasure. ultimately, the showroom always needs to be state-of-the-art with in-house developments to remain a serious attraction – whether for customers or television companies.

By [email protected]

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Why does Germany need seminars on the topic of laboratory design and construction? The topics appear to be straightforward (see Introduction) but, in spite of this, numerous events are held throughout Germany every year. Are you going to start going round in circles?

Klaus Söhngen:in actual fact, it can look that way at first if you view it superficially. However, as we don’t just work with original laboratory furniture and service supply systems in laboratory design, we sometimes need to focus on a significantly more global, more comprehensive and exciting basket of ideas. and so it’s not surprising that we also have to deal with spatial issues, like how to integrate devices into equipment, trial management, the need for flexibly usable laboratory areas with and without fixed requirements in terms of use, among others.

ralf Streckwall:although the issues are straightforward, at the same time they are also very complex and subject to constant change. in my view, the seminars have two functions: They use “best practice” examples to present the current state of the debate and offer the opportuni-ty for an informal exchange of views – beyond “protocol”.

However, there is still a risk of going round in circles. We have to ensure that the number of participants constantly increases and that stimuli from other fields enriches the debate. The events have to be designed to be “interdisciplinary” and attempt to break down the reservations between the individual disciplines. in the “real” world, unfortunately all too often you get the feeling that architects are building for architects and engineers for engineers. dr. Gert richter:personally i could come up with so many ideas for further events or papers. You only go round in circles if the same people always do the same thing and then subsequently talk about it, never adding anything new to the mix.This has not been the case in laboratory construction as these three aspects illustrate: laboratories have been constructed in a similar way (wall benches/double work benches) for over a century.it is the different demands from research itself that have broken down these “old structures” for the design of laboratories and there are now clearly new developments in laboratory construc-tion, the possibilities of which are in no way exhausted today. We need to communicate new knowledge in this regard.Everyone gets older and retires from working life, in the process losing knowledge that has to be reacquired.

There is a lot of construction work going on and, with every forth-coming new building, there are always individuals within the cir-cles of clients, users and designers, who want to know what can be done with and asked of modern laboratories.

If the situation in Germany is as you describe it above, what is the situation like in the global laboratory sector? Identical, similar or completely different? How do other countries deal with the situ-ation?

dr. Gert richter:There are a number of events that deal directly with the topic or related topics in Europe and worldwide. For instance, you can see how much work has been done, and is still being done at many locations across the globe in connection with the certification of laboratory buildings (whatever your attitude to the topic is). The level and the approach of events certainly differs between differ-ent continents and countries.

Klaus Söhngen:as far as i am aware, there is a considerable range of events in the uSa as well as the events held in Germany. No regular events are held in the rest of Europe, with isolated exceptions in Switzerland and austria, and throughout the rest of the world.

ralf Streckwall:The situation is similar in the united States and the events are sig-nificantly larger due to the correspondingly larger “market”. Many colleagues from the uK attend these events. You meet colleagues from German-speaking countries - Switzerland, austria and to a certain extent the Benelux countries – at German events.The topics discussed at these events are essentially similar, with the “gap” between the various disciplines being much less in the united States than is the case in Germany. The solutions are often more pragmatic and simpler.

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THE TalK iS OF COMplEx TOpiCS SEMiNarS aNd SYMpOSia ON laBOraTOrY dESiGN aNd CONSTruCTiON arE alWaYS iN dEMaNd

Mutual exchange of information and experiences is an imperative in the laboratory

sector: people meet up several times a year to discuss specific issues. according

to the architect ralf Streckwall, the issues generally revolve around flexibility in

laboratories, building quality, communication in the laboratory, energy efficiency

and sustainability*. The striking thing is that although the topics are more or less

repeated, seminars and symposia in the laboratory sector have been fully booked

for years. an inexplicable phenomenon? Why is that? We posed the question.

* Source: Ernst & Sohn Special 2013 – research and laboratory Structures, page 3

The seminars and symposia discuss equipment integration, trial management and flexibly usable laboratory areas alongside laboratory furniture and service supply systems.

Ralf Streckwall, Max-Delbrück-Centrum

Dr. Gert Richter, WALDNER Laboreinrich tungen GmbH & Co. KG

Klaus Söhngen,eretec Laborplanung GmbH & Co. KG

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How is the laboratory world developing in Germany and in the rest of the world in terms of knowledge management? Can you see parallels?

ralf Streckwall:a large proportion of current knowledge management is certainly done on the inter-net. That is undoubtedly a global phenomenon. You can access almost any information “online”. But that makes excessive demands on many people. laboratory events can also help here: you can bring a little more order to your mind by discussing issues with colleagues.

Klaus Söhngen:i think that you can safely say that Germany, in particular, is a pioneer in lab-oratory construction and that a great deal of knowledge about laboratory furniture and technology has been concentrated here.

dr. Gert richter:You can’t study “laboratories” per se – it is an interdisciplinary subject.The aspects of “first-time builders”, generational change and trends in the technical development of laboratory construc-tion require considerably more extensive knowledge than we currently have in Germany.The German laboratory Safety working group, has expanded the regulation to include the requirement for all individual involved in a project to have specialist expertise, based on practical experience gained over recent years.This is not intended to restrict the number of possible designers, rather takes account of the fact that laboratory buildings involve quite a high level of complexity. Specialist courses or seminar series would make a major contribution to knowledge management.

You are all in agreement that it is incredibly important for the laboratory sector that all those involved exchange their experi-ences and discuss the experience they have gained in projects. Why is this so strikingly important?

Klaus Söhngen:Because it has almost become a missionary concern for me personally, along with other colleagues, to protect the laboratory world and, above all, laboratory staff from “poor” laboratory solutions. This statement is not in any way meant to appear arrogant, rather is based on my unfortunate experience gained over 30 years of laboratory design.i experience again and again, both in the public and private sector, that unattainable targets, with regard to architecture, building services and laboratory services, are set and called for in the tenders for large laboratory projects. These qualities asked for are then always generally reduced to lower standards under cost pressure during the course of a project. Many positive approaches, in terms of flexibility, communication and workflow optimisation and sustainability are thus regrettably missed during the design process.

at the end there is often only the new address of a shell with HvaC equipment and average laboratory usefulness. apart from the fact that the building is new, not much has changed in the employees’ working environment. a pity about the missed opportunity and a pity about the investment.

ralf Streckwall:There are also altered requirements relating to the laboratory construction in line with the

constant changes in scientific requirements.The development is so rapid that there is no relevant “classic literature” to which

you can refer to “get the knowledge”. in addition, everyone feels that they are also losing their overview of the interminable flood of laws, standards,

guidelines etc. it helps, over and over again, to realise that you’re not the only one feeling like this.

dr. Gert richter:“For doctors once doesn’t matter, but for patients once is one

time too many!” The same applies to the users of laboratories. For designers and builders it is one building out of many, whereas for the users themselves it is their only building. as many experiences as possible from other projects need to be incorporated in the design for the benefit of future users. Would it be an exaggeration to say that these worldwide events are helping the laboratory world to evolve?

ralf Streckwall:No, not at all!

Klaus Söhngen:in fact, quite the contrary. Here in Germany we are certainly

on the right road to making knowledge and information about issues relating to laboratory construction available to a broader

interested public.

dr. Gert richter:No, it is not an exaggeration to say that, rather it describes a general process.

Science, technology, society and also the world of laboratories evolves through an exchange about results achieved and discussions about new approaches.

One thing, however, will never come to pass – a standardised laboratory design on all continents.

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iNSTallEd iN a KiNGdOMGErMaN laBOraTOriES iNSTallEd iN THE KiNG Saud BiN aBdulaZiZ uNivErSiTY FOr HEalTH SCiENCES iN Saudi-araBia

The “King Saud bin abdulaziz university for Health Sciences“

(KSau-HS), managed by the National Guard Health affairs, is a

good example of investment in education and human resources

in the Kingdom of Saudi-arabia. The university offers teaching

and research at three campuses – riyadh, Jeddah and al ahsa –

and is also setting up “Centers of Excellence” at these locations.

The KSau-HS is one of the most modern universities in the arab

world that specializes in health science.

Totally focused on the specific requirements of the major project, like Project Manager Daniel Grau

The outstanding design never fails to win customers over: a WALDNER laboratory system

perkins and Will, one of the world‘s largest and most prestig-ious architecture and design firms, was commissioned to design this gigantic project, including all its laboratories. dan Watch, an

award-winning uS lab designer, was responsible for the laboratory design, with arEEN dESiGN from England acting as “procurement agent“, including the procurement of laboratory casework. due to the high level of prestige attached to the research centers they carry the King’s name “The King abdullah international Medical research Center”. Four companies were short-listed worldwide for the sup-ply of the laboratory furniture. This was followed by an extremely rigorous selection procedure, during which not just the product, but also the companies ‘capacity and experience, came under scrutiny.

The crucial factor in the decision arrived at by arEEN dESiGN and the National Guard Health affairs was certainly also the fact that WaldNEr produces functional and high-quality laboratory case-

work. “Moreover the outstanding design of the WaldNEr labo-ratory system cannot fail to win customers over. “comments peter Schmid, Head of the WaldNEr branch office in dubai. Thanks to its strong overall package, WaldNEr was awarded the order for casework and equipment for the three research centers in riyadh, Jeddah and al ahsa and was also awarded the contract for the lab-oratories in the “King abdullah Specialist Children Hospital and the associated “Central laboratory“. There is a reason why such large international projects are organized and completed so well: expe-

rienced and trained project management teams at WaldNEr lab-oreinrichtungen. The head of one such team is a project manager

with international experience. But without his staff, without relevant commercial sup-port and, above all, without a WaldNEr Construction Manager on site, even the most experienced project manager would fair badly. daniel Grau is a project Man-ager like this: “i‘ve always been interested in and fascinated by the big wide world out there. My first international commis-sion with WaldNEr was a project for Bayer in Japan.“ Since then he has been regularly managing international projects – sometimes up to five in parallel – togeth-er with his teams.” i work together with several colleagues and can also call upon other teams who support me and watch my back! alongside these people, there are also colleagues from specialist depart-ments, like Building Control Systems, Ex-plosion protection or laboratory Control, as well as production, who support me with their expert advice,“ states daniel Grau, explaining the composition of his

team that he assembles around him for a project of this magnitude. a project Manager attends site as often as possible to document progress on site and clarify matters that would be difficult to discuss on the phone or by e-mail, that is to say matters than can be clari-fied much better and much more quickly face to face. it never fails to be an adventure, even for an experienced international project manager like daniel Grau, to encounter the culture and customs in a particular country: “For instance, when it‘s ramadan, we work with our clients until 12 noon and then again after sunset and often work late into the night.“ What the WaldNEr Site Manager and his team achieve on site is astounding. That is a factor that represents a phys-ical challenge for anyone from our region of the world. Flexibility is

a key qualification for a WaldNEr project team – starting with the project Manager and his staff through to the Commercial adminis-trator and fitters. it‘s not just the fact that you need to adapt to the different culture, but there are also completely different working hours. in arab countries, for example, weekends are just normal working days for WaldNEr.

The structure of WaldNEr‘s laboratory projects is also becoming increasingly complex due to their increasing volume. With the King Saud bin abdulaziz university project, for instance, the construc-tion site is in riyadh, Jeddah and al ahsa the procurement agent is based in England and the design office is in the uSa. The project Manager has at least three contacts, with whom he has to clari-fy technical solutions on this current project. “The project has also grown enormously over time, “states the project Manager. “We originally started with three buildings and are now on our fifth. That means that my team has produced almost 1,000 drawings, each of which had to be revised twice for drawing approval. “a further challenge with this project is the logistics and storage of compo-nents. Transport from the warehouse in Jeddah to the construction site in riyadh alone presents completely different demands for our shipping and packaging specialists. an arEEN Warehouse Manager on site ensures that the correct material arrives on site just in time. The Construction Manager and Warehouse Manager have to work very closely with each to ensure that this works seamlessly. How-ever, WaldNEr‘s high standards naturally apply all over the world. WaldNEr laboratory furniture has to arrive on site in perfect condi-tion. “i‘m sure that this will not be the final challenge that we‘ll have to solve here! “Smiles daniel Grau and answers his mobile again – london-based arEEN is calling to discuss the next steps on site.

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This led to the development of a film tester (FQM2) based on a CCd matrix camera – a revolution in quality control in the plastics industry, which rapidly found its way into laboratories. OCS (Optical Control Systems) was es-tablished and is today the world‘s lead-ing manufacturer in quality control in the polymer and petrochemical industry. One new development followed another over subsequent years. The product range was extended with an infra-red spectroscopy system (applairS) to analyse the chemi-cal composition, additives and density of extruded films. The checking of polymer pellets for impurities and colour changes was also soon part of the OCS portfolio. in 2005 the rapid growth of the company was presented with the Northrhine West-phalia innovation award.Today OCS facilities all over the world characterise with high precision the visual, physical, chemical and rheological proper-ties of polymer pellets, films and powders. OCS also supplies laboratory extruders for the manufacture of flat and blown film.OCS‘s recipe for success involves close customer relationships and an openness to their requirements. This led to the develop-

ment of the new business segment „Turn-key lab Solutions“. OCS selected WaldNEr laboreinrichtungen as its partner for laboratory systems due to the company‘s excellent engineering

performance, outstanding flexibility and willingness to cooperate.The contract from Opp (Oman polypropyl-ene) to design, deliver, install and com-mission a quality control laboratory for a polypropylene production plant in Oman marked the start of the two companies‘ cooperative relationship. With Wald-NEr‘s products and specific knowledge and expertise, laboratory furniture with the interfaces for ventilation control, clean gas supply and electrics could be arranged for the OCS systems.Since the outstanding first co-operative project, further well-known projects, like Saudi Kayan (Sabic), ibn Zahr (Sabic), Sip-CHEM, petro rabigh and Sadara (dow Chemical/araMCO) in Saudi arabia, in-dian Oil limited and Opal in india and

Braskem in Mexico, have been and continue to be worked on together.

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KNOWlEdGE aNd

ExpErTiSE iN dual paCKSOCS pluS WaldNEr: a STrONG alliaNCE FOr THE CHEMiCal aNd pETrOCHEMiCal iNduSTrY

1990 – three engineers with different cultural roots and a shared vision:

the automated quality control of plastic films, which to date had only been possible

by visual inspection.

A project for the Saudi Kayan petrochemical company: only one example of the many successful cooperative projects by OCS and WALDNER

rEviEW OF THE WaldNEr COrpOraTE GrOup2012/2013 BuSiNESS YEar

Project location country order value

King Saud University / Roots Group Jeddah, Saudi Arabia € 9 million

Technical University of Munich (TUM) Garching, Munich Germany € 8 million

Charité Berlin Germany € 7 million

Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences Kleve Germany € 3.5 million

Wacker Burghausen Germany € 3 million

Boehringer Biberach Germany € 3 million

Greifswald University Hospital Greifswald Germany € 2 million

Friedrich-Loeffler Institute Riems Island Germany € 2 million

Le Fonds Belval Esch-Belval Luxembourg € 2 million

Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH) Hannover Germany € 2 million

Max-Dellbrück Centre (MDC) Berlin Germany € 2 million

University of Konstanz Konstanz Germany € 1.5 million

Testa Lab Mashad Iran € 1.5 million

L‘Oréal Mumbai India € 1.5 million

Petróleos de Venezuela S. A. (PDVSA) Caracas Venezuela € 1.5 million

Galachem Moscow Russia € 1 million

pErFOrMaNCE iNdiCaTOrS FrOM WaldNEr laBOrEiNriCHTuNGEN GMBH & CO. KG

turnover € 200 million

employees over 1,200 worldwide

BuSiNESS FiGurES

Production Daily production of laboratory furniture – approximately € 600,000

Products

Fume cupboards 5,000

Service modules (e.g. service spines, service columns etc.)

24,000

Service ceiling (in m²) 6,500

Laboratory benches 27,000

Laboratory cabinets 72,500

installation 135 in-house fitters deployed around the world, fitting around 1,200 m² of laboratory space every day

inspection, maintenance and service 25 in-house service technicians and over 1,000 service contracts worldwide

Medicine has to be produced under 100% sterile conditions.One of them is called Waldner.

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