Ziemann Group: Beer brewing worldwide, powered by Lapp

The Cambodian beer market is on course for growth. This is also good news for the Lapp Group, who supplied the complete underground cabling for the building of a new brewery in Phnom Penh. The turnkey plant is currently being built by the Ziemann Group from Ludwigsburg in southern Germany. The company develops and realises brewhouses, tank farms and turnkey brewery plants the world over.

When the "Khmer Brewery" is handed over in summer 2011 to the client, the Chip Mong Group, it will be able to produce 500,000 hectolitres of beer annually. The mash filter has a capacity of 14 brews a day. The contract also includes the cold block, processing technology, automation and the complete filling plant for bottles and cans. At a further stage of expansion, a capacity of 1-2 million hectolitres a year is planned.

The underground cables for the brewery come from Lapp Kabel – the cables alone weigh around 42 tons. These will supply energy to the various functional areas of the brewery, for example water treatment, the grinding plant, the brewhouse, the cellar, the cold block (where the beer ferments and matures), the boiler house, the filling plant and CO2 recovery.

Since the PVC underground cables (NYY-J/NYY-O) are used for supplying power to the central relay in the respective areas, they have a particularly thick diameter of up to four centimetres. Thomas Hölzel, Head of Purchasing for Mechanics and Controlling at the Ziemann Group: "We have chosen the underground cables from Lapp due to their quality and high availability. Lapp is also building a new logistics centre in Ludwigsburg, meaning that we will be good neighbours in the future."

Lapp underground cables are particularly robust. The copper conductors are insulated with core insulation on a PVC base, the complete core connection is solidified with a filling mixture and there is also an outer sheath on a PVC base. As an energy and control cable that can be securely laid, it may be used indoors and outdoors, in soil, in concrete and even in water.

For the building of the brewery, the underground cables needed to be supplied directly to Cambodia – not a problem for Lapp, despite the large volume. The contract was processed by KiAA (kundenindividuelle Auftragsabwicklung; customer-specific contract processing). For loading, the client provided two 40-foot containers and one 20-foot container, which were then expertly loaded at Lapp. The necessary export documents were created by the client themselves. The mandatory packing list with all required consignment data for transport, along with the item-related customs tariff numbers and preference marks for the export documents, were created by KiAA. A customs inspection in the presence of a KiAA employee also took place at Lapp. Denis Huber from Lapp Customer Service: "This meant the customer did not have to take care of anything else, as we had taken over the entire processing of the transport."

The customer

It is not only the experience and reliability, and it is not only the innovation and know-how that make customers around the world rely on and trust ZIEMANN GROUP as brewery technology and turn-key solution provider, .... it is the vision our customers share with us. The vision of developing and implementing brewery plants that operate most efficiently and effectively in the long run while producing optimum product quality together with a fast return on investments and low life-cycle costs.

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