DuPont lays the foundation for new deep-freeze warehouse
DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced that it will be opening a new deep-freeze warehouse centre in Niebüll, Germany.
According to the company, synergies will be generated by enlarging storage capacity in Niebüll and by the leverage of existing fermentation capacity from the Epernon facility. The storage expansion in Niebüll will be built on top of the current logistics building. DuPont expects the construction work to be completed in Niebüll in the fourth quarter of 2018 and that the 12-metre-high building will be put into operation later this year.
“The investment of around €7 million ($8.6m) forms part of the previously announced $60m expansion plan for European cultures plants. We count on a combination of local planners and regional specialist companies to realise this important plant extension, building upon the overall logistics of the plant”, says Reinhold Sand, site manager Danisco Deutschland GmbH.
The new deep-freeze warehouse will be run with a temperature of minus 55 degrees centigrade.
“The cold storage cell will be equipped with a new, very energy efficient insulating panel and due to this, the new cooling system will on average run significantly less per day, which reduces energy use”, explains Michael Paulsen, plant manager Danisco Deutschland GmbH.
Furthermore, a heat recovery system will be integrated into the refrigeration technology.
Paulsen adds, “In the new storage there will be ports with different temperature zones as well as a semi-automated transport system to load and unload a freight elevator, that ensures the material transport from the ground to the upper floor.”
A two-story building with 300 square metres of floor space at each level will be in front of the new deep-freeze warehouse. The building will include logistics, building technology, office work places, switch rooms as well as social rooms for the employees working at the logistic centre.
