Bulk materials & liquid media

As one of the leading vendors in the field of automotive exhaust-gas aftertreatment, the company BASF Catalysts Germany GmbH with its catalytic converters and particulate filters for motor vehicles globally provides for drastic reduction of pollutant emissions. To ensure that already the manufacture of the catalytic converters runs clean and free of contamination, BASF was in need of a new powder handling line in the plant in Nienburg (on the Weser) designed to calcine mineral compounds in a so-called calcination furnace.

As a traditional, family-run company, the company Stricker & Weiken GmbH & Co KG in Hemer (in the west of Germany) runs a limestone quarry and is an experienced specialist in the field of mining and processing of Devon mass lime with a throughput of 700,000 tons of limestone per year. Rich in tradition, limestone has been used as building material for 375 million years; however, today this material requires accurately-fit processing for many different use cases in the fields of pavement, roads, and buildings. Therefore, OAS was entrusted with planning and building of a new treatment plant for limestone sand.