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The Dolder Grand is one of Switzerland’s most outstanding spa hotels. The original Curhaus, or health spa, built in 1899, has been transformed into a luxury-class city resort. The hotel boasts an exclusive ambience of opulence and relaxation, with 173 luxurious rooms and suites, exquisite cuisine, large banquet and seminar rooms and a new 4000 sqm spa. Running a hotel of this standard requires superior technology – an important part of which was supplied by ProMinent.
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Skidding, sliding and slamming on the brakes – it’s all in a day’s work on the driver training skid pan operated by Dutch automobile club ANWB. The hazards of driving on wet roads are one of the risks most often underestimated by motorists.
Washing and transport systems for fruit and vegetables have to be cleaned frequently and thoroughly. At one Italian company, small quantities of chlorine dioxide added to the water are saving precious time for employees operating an apple washing system.
One company in Madeira makes table water from the island’s springs and wells. Despite the fact that the natural nitrate content is too high, the finished product is high-quality drinking water – thanks to water treatment from ProMaqua.
In northern Kuwait, metering stations are helping to keep the oil flowing safely and reliably.
Student researchers use metering system to discover how pulp can be manufactured more efficiently by the addition of chemicals.
The Welde Brewery has been brewing beer with its own spring water for over 250 years and the traditional brewery uses several Bello Zon® chlorine dioxide plants to disinfect its drinking water and washing water.
"Cast off!" was the cry aboard the AIDAblu in Warnemünde on 5 May 2010, when around 10 pm the new luxury cruise liner from the cruise operator AIDA Cruises set off on its tour of the Baltic Sea under a shower of fireworks.
Solenoid metering pumps, as well as other equipment, is used in the treatment of digestate in the largest biogas plant in Switzerland. Switzerland is into biogas in a big way and the largest biogas plant in Switzerland was connected to the grid in the Lucerne district of Inwil in 2009. When operating at full capacity, it supplies up to 1.9 million cubic metres of gas per year - for use by natural gas vehicles (NGV). The volume produced is sufficient for 2,000 cars each travelling 12,000 kilometres per year.
The engine recycling company, BU Drive Schmitz+Krieger GmbH, relies on the treatment of waste water, thereby making an important contribution to environmental conservation and making significant savings in terms of operating costs.
Metal is a unique material - hard-wearing and robust. However, without the correct surface treatment, these properties don't last. When it comes to surfaces, the Holzapfel company are specialists. They improve and coat metal surfaces so that after treatment they can sustain higher loading, are safely protected against corrosion and also receive a "shiny" appearance.
The Messer Group produces industrial gases at temperatures of up to minus 196 degrees Celsius, which demands a reliable and powerful cooling circuit. Thanks to a measuring and metering system with integrated corrosion measurement section from ProMinent, the company can now achieve constant minus temperatures by the prevention of corrosion and sedimentation in the cooling water.
Bus-controlled treatment of swimming pool water. The luxurious new DAY SPA at the Parkhotel Heidehof in Ingolstadt invites guests to swim in shimmering blue water and enjoy its waves, saunas and steam rooms. Its new water treatment and disinfection system from ProMaqua ensures that guests can enjoy crystal-clear, germ-free water in the indoor and heated outdoor pools as well as in the whirlpool.
After a match, both the players of 1899 Hoffenheim as well as the away team look forward to relieving tension, loosening up their muscles and simply relaxing in the revitalizing pool at the new Rhein-Neckar Arena. ProMaqua provides water quality that is fit for the premier league.
The hotel with approx. 2,000 beds suffered from a loss of guests, not least because of the supply with saline brackish water. The water quality thus had urgently and drastically to be improved. The hotel looked for a solution independent of the unreliable, public water supply.
The luxury hotel Le Paradis on Mauritius offers a total of 286 rooms as well as suites, bungalows, villas and a large pool area. Water on Mauritius is scarce and public supply is not guaranteed smoothly.
The Hilton Hotel in St. Julian, Malta, is located directly at the beach. In the course of modernisation measures, an effective alternative for the insuffi ciently functioning seawater desalination system for the generation of drinking water was to be found.
Clean competition water is our objective. Comprehensive competence in water applications our commitment. ProMinent has provided the Olympics with crystal-clear competition water for more than 30 years.
As partner of KHD Humbold Wedag GmbH, Cologne, ProMinent supplies the polymer preparation station for powdery and liquid polymer for the production of stock solutions or working solutions of synthetic flocculants. The components optimally matched among each other and to the process guarantee an extremely economic overall solution.
Retention agents facilitate an economic paper production. At the Rhein Papier in Hürth, an extremely high retention of fines can be achieved using components optimally matched to the process. As partner of Herkules in Düsseldorf, ProMinent supplied the preparation station for powdery retention agents for this application.
Metering processes controlled in sync with machine operating cycles place demanding requirements on the metering equipment required for this purpose. This is particularly true of applications where it is necessary to precisely apply very small quantities of a liquid within a very short space of time, i.e. virtually at split second intervals.
Water supply utilities employ appropriate disinfection processes to ensure the final user receives hygienically pure drinking water. However, the hygienic purity of the water can no longer be guaranteed wherever additional pipes and hoses are installed, for example, as drinking water and service water supply for large-scale events.
Finished pasta products like spaetzle or tortellini are precooked in salt water. For this purpose, the dosing of a 24% saline solution is effected in industrial standard in different blanching devices. The dosing is controlled via a measurement of the inductive conductivity. The set value is about 20 mS (about 1% saline solution). When filling the plants, metered addition is done via a water meter proportionally.
Prior to the processing or selling of leaf salads it must be guaranteed that the leaf surface has been cleaned properly and the germination number on the surface is kept at a minimum. Cut surfaces and points of breakage of salad leafs are especially sensitive to micro-organism infestation and brown colouring.
Health and well-being are top of mind in the working relationship between Virgin Active and ProMinent Fluid Controls (South Africa) – Virgin Active was challenged to exercise stricter control over the water coming into its 76 clubs across the country and ProMinent Fluid Controls provided a solution in the form of the LegioZon® chlorine dioxide generator.
From the Antarctic icebergs to the ground of the oceans: The scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) explore polar areas, oceans and their shores. Target is to understand the complex system Earth, especially the climate and its changes.
Koerich water works near Luxembourg City is one of the Grand Duchy’s most important water works. A high-level tank with a volume of 15,000 m3 plus an additional 2,000 m3 was newly constructed for storage.
The plant is used for surface treatment of metal parts as preparation for their painting and is divided into a degreasing, phosphating and passivation zone. Throughput is in excess of 1000 parts per day.
ProMinent provides their entire water treatment including chemical fluid handling and chlorine dioxide systems in a walk-in container for the cooling water treatments in a cooling tower. A complete service agreement is in place to ensure its constant and efficient operation.
For wastewater treatment, ProMinent, as a partner of HUBER AG, supplied Chemical Fluid Handling components for pH value control, flocculation, precipitation and flotation. The components – optimally matched to one another and to the process – offer an extremely economical total solution for wastewater treatment for the meat processing industry.
The newly developed Bundesplatz in Bern (Switzerland) was opened on 1st August 2004 – a large-scale project of national importance and international significance. The theme of the redevelopment is based on the elements rock, light and water.
The newly constructed KIA Motors plant in Teplička nad Váhom, Slovakia requires more than 120 cubic metre of process water per hour. The water must be supplied in high-purity quality conforming to defined quality parameters for the purpose of processing the automobile paint line. For this reason, the food water quality used is drinking quality water while all systems and components must be installed silicon free.
High performance desalination plant in Chinese freight harbour. Since 2004 one of the largest and most important freight harbours in North-East China has boasted a state-of-the-art extension. Iron ore imported from Australia arrives here to supply China's flourishing steel industry.
The finest beers are created through traditional brewing methods and through use of the very latest technology. The key to success is experience, not just in brewing, but also in the design of the plant itself.
Mineral water is enjoying strongly increasing popularity. Hygiene is one of the most important factors here for successful mineral water bottling.
A modern fully automatic neutralization plant has been realized as a last wastewater treatment step in the Heidelberg Schlossquell Brewery, newly built in 1999. Here, the neutralization of wastewater is effected by ideally integrated components of a control circuit.
Surf riding in the city? We are not talking about the dangerous surf on rapid-transit commuters. Swatch, producer of watches, has brought a mobile wave into the world's metropoles. The water of this wave is treated with ProMinent technology.
In the Russian water works Kronstadt, disinfection with chlorine gas has been replaced by sodium hypochlorite. The new process was to be fully automatic and redundantly. Moreover, fluctuating raw water charges had to be respected.
TEMAIKEN is the name of the ca. 34 hectares zoo near Buenos Aires. Aquaria and entire seascapes require the treatment of 1 700 m³ water per hour – this is approximately the usage of a city with 150 000 inhabitants.
The Water Town of Spandau is a very special wellness area: sauna, whirlpool and saline pools are at the visitor's disposition. In addition to the swimming pool technology, ProMinent even supplies the dosing equipment for odors to enable a perfect wellness adventure.
Cost savings of up to 40% for chemicals used in disinfection and fresh water consumption in the Crailsheim Dairy. Using chlorine dioxide as a disinfectant replaces a considerable quantity of fresh water by using recycled vapour. The consumption of peracetic acid has likewise been considerably reduced.
The Greek, 4 star hotel complex „Porto Carras Grand Resort“ with a guest capacity of around 2.000 beds had one scarce resource: high quality water. So ProMinent was asked to supply a complete solution providing potable water from salt water. From the first project meeting to the first glass of pure drinking water took only 5 months.
Located next to the coast of Northeast-China the islands Zhangzhi and Dachangshan both have a lack of potable water at almost all times during the year. For 160.000 inhabitants of these islands, ProMinent planned, installed and successfully put into operation a complete water treatment solution to convert seawater to potable water.