SBM Mineral Processing (SBM) has won the biggest order in the company's history by becoming the exclusive supplier of concrete mixing plants for the world's longest immersed road and rail tunnel.
Femern Link Contractors (FLC), part of Femern, a subsidiary of Danish state-owned Sund & Bælt Holding, issued the landmark contract to Oberweis, Upper Austria-based SBM, as part of its planning, building, and operating of the new fixed link between Denmark and Germany across the Fehmarnbelt.
The SBM order includes the delivery of a total of six concrete mixing plants to produce the 3,000,000m³ of concrete required for the construction of the record-breaking immersed tunnel. In the first step, SBM is delivering a EUROMIX 3300 SPACE which will produce the concrete for the project’s infrastructure. The EUROMIX is said to be trendsetting in super-mobile concrete production due to its performance.
Later this year, two LINEMIX 4500 CM plants will start work in ‘Factory B’ and start producing concrete for the tunnel elements. Equipped with BHS DKX 4.5 twin-shaft mixers, these systems produce an output of 4.5m³ concrete per batch. This is a new milestone in production output, even for mobile container SBM concrete mixing systems. ‘Factory A’ will go into operation in mid-2022, and another three SBM LINEMIX plants will be involved.
“Concrete has become a high-tech product. As a machine and plant manufacturer with decades of experience, we can offer innovative solutions and sophisticated concepts to our customers. This ensures that FLC can produce concrete economically, quickly, as sustainable as possible, and in accordance with the necessary quality criteria. A special thing on the side is that the entire order was negotiated via video calls and conferences, and we have never met our customer in person before and since the contract was signed. Our challenge is to continuously expand our technological leadership and to further strengthen our expertise in process engineering technology,” explains Erwin Schneller, managing director of SBM.
The Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link Project is the final stage in realising a straight traffic corridor between Lolland in Denmark and Fehmarn in Germany across the Fehmarnbelt. The link will accommodate four lanes of road traffic, two emergency lanes and two railway tracks.
The project comprising the design and construction of an 18km long immersed tunnel between Lolland in Denmark and Fehmarn in Germany, including the portals and ramps and portal buildings in Denmark and Germany, began in January 2021.
