In March and April we did not keep our hands inside our pockets as well. The electricians brought us lights in the new chemical production and connected the new machines. Because of increasing difficulties in finding plumbers we had to connect the wastewater pipes by…
Today we closed the last missing part of the road around the new factory.
Due to ongoing market consolidations on the side of chemical suppliers in recent years, we started a while ago to manufacture small lots of photochemistry entirely in our facilities. Medium sized batches were temporarily produced in our dispersion kettles in Switzerland. With the finishing of…
In the last weeks we have been building around the backside of the new building. Parking spaces have been built, a rainwaterdraining basin and further waste water piping. Inside of the building we have moved tons of machines and materials, and installed electrical, pressurized air,…
Finally the concrete is arriving. You can´t imagine how frustrating it is if you have a new building but can´t put anything in! For 7 months the world ended with a bent metal piece below the main gate because there was a 10 inch gap…
In the last months we have mainly worked in the outer areas. The wastewater pipes have been conected and along the train tracks a wall was built to create room for the required parking places. Inside the tiles in the chemical production and coating room…
We started working on the coater and web. After 10 years of sleep the Agfa technology was woken up and adopted. Later we will merge her with Ilford´s Swiss technololy. The dry construction guys (actually a girl) finished the walls of the melting and coating…
In May and June the floor pavement was put in place and covered with tiles. In between the dry construction workers finished the walls and the electricians mounted the fuse cabinets. They then mounted cable trays throughout the old building to connect them to the…
In March and April works continued as planned. The coating alley now has the walking floors, the coolhouse doors are mounted and the melting room is being installed.
In march most of the works took place inside the factory. We installed the new masterroll-coolhouse, started heating up the concrete floor to dry it and closed the wall to the old factory for fire protection purposes.