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The giant from Mannheim will be used in the hydropower plant on the island of Sumatra

Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

In the north of the island of Sumatra lies the metropolitan region of Medan. With some 3 million inhabitants, it is the third largest city in Indonesia.

It is here, on the banks of the Asahan River, that the China Huadian Engineering Corporation, one of China's largest plant manufacturers, built the Asahan hydropower plant within the framework of a joint venture.

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VAG valves complete Evonik's new recooling plant

The Wesseling plant, one of Evonik Industries' largest facilities, is located south of Cologne in the middle of the chemical region of the Rhineland. Here, in an area covering 330,000 m2, 1,200 employees produce a variety of chemical products that are mainly used in personal care products, tyres and rubber items, paper, paints and lacquers and the synthesis of drugs.

A prerequisite for error-free production in chemical plants and power stations is the dependable supply of recooling water. Chemical processes cannot take place without cooling.

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Rubber-coated valves for the Thames Water

London, capital of England

London‘s growing population and increasing temperatures are putting it at risk of drought. According to Thames Water, the company that supplies the English capital with water, London’s demand for drinking water has increased by 15% in the last two decades and will continue to do so. According to the predictions, London‘s population is expected to reach 8 million by 2020.

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Adventurous job in Tasmania‘s wilderness

In 1914, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company finished the construction of a dam and power station at the edge of Lake Margaret to supply their mine with water and electricity through a three kilometre long pipeline.

Almost 100 years later, in 2006, the station was closed, among other things, to refurbish the historic wooden pipeline, whose wooden staves, shown in the picture, had become very porous.

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VAG Pressure Management reduces real water loss by up to 40% in Ain Al Basha near Amman

'If we don't drastically change the way we use water and reduce the amount we consume, Jordan's water deficit will continue to grow – with inconceivable consequences for the people and the environment!' explains Dieter Rothenberger, Project manager at GTZ.

To counter that, the globally active development organisation PPP set up a pilot project in Gouvernorat Balqa, near the capital Amman.

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Controlling air pressure at the wastewater treatment plant in Hangzhou, China

VAG RIKO Plunger Valves are as reliable in air pressure systems as they are in water supply systems

Situated on the east coast of China, the city of Hangzhou harmoniously combines ancient tradition with modern technology. With a history going back 4,700 years, Hangzhou is the cradle of Chinese civilization. In the 13th century, Marco Polo spoke of 'one of the finest and most beautiful cities in the world'. Traditional silk making huts and plantations of exquisite green tea characterize the landscape.

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New safety standards for nuclear power station Unterweser

High quality, custom-made VAG valves regulate the supply of cooling water

When the nuclear power station Unterweser was connected to the grid in 1978, it was the largest in the world. Some 10,000 billion KWh of electricity is generated here every year by a pressurized water reactor. The nuclear reactor, also known as Esenshamm or Kleinensiel, takes up a prominent place among the 17 German nuclear reactors.

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Refurbishment and renewal of all pipelines in the city of Rötz, Germany

VAG provides all valves and numerous VAG BAIO®plus system fittings

Water is not automatically drinking water as the 3,500 citizens of the city of Rötz found out from experience: impurities and leaks repeatedly caused problems. Moreover, the supply of extinguishing water and of backup water needed improving.

In 2004, Mayor Ludwig Reger and the aldermen decided to overhaul the entire supply system. An investment of 6 million euros was secured and allocated to the project with the help of the Free State of Bavaria.

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New Valves for San Diego's Water Supply System, USA

Two VAG Plunger Valves successfully reduce vibration and cavitation.

San Diego, the eighth largest city in the United States, is situated on the southern tip of California near the Mexican border. With the Pacific Ocean as its western border, this coastal city of 1.3 million is known as "surfers' paradise." It is also home to the largest naval fleet in the world and is one of the world's prominent wireless communication and biotech industrial hubs.

But nearly nine out of ten gallons of the county’s drinking water has to be imported from the far north of the state. The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) provides safe and reliable water to the county of San Diego (approx three million inhabitants) through large-diameter water transmission pipelines, reservoirs and flow-control facilities. At its Escondido Crossover Pipeline Terminal Station, the Water Authority operated two plug valves to regulate flows in hundreds of miles of its transmission pipeline systems.

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Valves in pumping station at Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG, Germany

VAG valves particularly suitable for process cycle water

Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG (CFB) was founded in 1908 and established itself in Budenheim near Mainz. The company specialised in the production of phosphates as early as the 1920s. Whether for foodstuffs, pharmaceutical products or technical applications, phosphates made in Budenheim are used in almost every industry. The medium-sized company has achieved worldwide renown with its phosphates. Today, 650 employees produce almost 1,000 different products that are distributed to more than 100 countries.

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30 years in operation for AGRA ROAD in Mumbai, India

In 1978, 21 VAG valves were sent to Mumbai. Today, they are still proving just how reliable they are.

Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. More than 20 million people live in the subcontinent's main seaport. More than half of the people live on Salsette Island, a peninsula off the marshy west coast that extends into the Arabian Sea.

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Quench water regulation at coking plant in Schwelgern near Duisburg, Germany

VAG values in continuous operation to quench red-hot coke

The construction of the new coking plant in Schwelgern marked a special milestone for the steel-making environs of Duisburg. After a construction time of three years, the biggest, most modern, and one of the cleanest coking plants in the world had been completed.

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Municipality Adelsdorf in Bavaria, Germany modernises waterworks

Forty seven VAG CEREX® 300 Butterfly Valves and 100 per cent own effort put into automation of waterworks

Adelsdorf municipality is in the Erlangen-Hochstadt district. It has 7,235 inhabitants and an exceptionally dynamic team of people at its Road and Park Maintenance, Waterworks, and Sewage Treatment divisions.

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Municipality Adelsdorf in Bavaria, Germany modernises waterworks

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Water from the world's first cave power station on Java, Indonesia

VAG valves supply water from the caves under the 'thousand hills'

Yogyakarta Special Province is one of the poorest areas of Java and Indonesia mainly because of the extreme lack of water. A dry season lasting several months and the craggy karst soil means that harvests are poor and drinking water scarce. In the 1980s, a ramified cave system with underground rivers was discovered 100 metres below the karst plateau. All that was needed was a sustainable way of exploiting the source.

A German-Indonesian cooperative was put in place in 2000. The goal of this interdisciplinary cooperation between researchers, scientists, corporations and institutes was to tap into and exploit the available water resource.

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Rapid supply of drinking water for Ankara, Turkey

Immediate relief for severe water shortage in the Turkish capital

Ankara, the capital of Turkey since 1923 and the country's second largest city, is located in one of Turkey's driest areas. The rapid rise in the number of the city's inhabitants to more than four million and the nationwide drought led to a severe water shortage in 2007. The city actually had to implement a restriction policy.

The mayor of Ankara, Melih Gökcek, spontaneously gave the go-ahead for a gigantic pipeline project that promised to quickly bring permanent relief.

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Flood protection for the City of Bogen

VAG designs special valves to protect the City of Bogen against floods
The 'Gate to the Bavarian Forest' is how the Lower Bavarian City of Bogen describes itself. The medieval city is situated on the banks of the Danube between Straubing and Vilshofen. With the growing risk of floods, the proximity to the river is becoming an increasing danger to the 10,000 inhabitants and their possessions. That is why RMD Wasserstraßen GmbH and the water board of Deggendorf developed a flood protection plan for the City of Bogen as part of the in-depth investigations into the regulation of the section of the Danube between Straubing and Vilshofen. The plan is to prevent flood water from the hinterlands reaching the city by storing it in retention basins and using pumps to channel it through the Bogen stream into the Danube.

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Fire water supply at Frankfurt Airport, Germany

The complete fire-fighting system of Frankfurt Airport is to be modernised within the next few years using the most powerful standpost hydrants made by VAG. The future-orientated technology of the hydrants will also serve in the supply of such important new buildings as Terminal 3 right from the start. The VAG NOVA Standpost Hydrant in dimension DN 150, which is unique in the market and has been designed especially for the protection of modern and sensitive industrial plants and infrastructure systems, will be found in all places where maximum safety and top performance are an issue. Over 26 hydrants are already in service on the site of Germany’s largest factory building – the Airbus 380 hangar.

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Water treatment plant in Brezno, Czech Republic

VAG-Armaturen ensures remediated mine water is returned to the environment

The mining industry has a long tradition in the Czech Republic. Archaeological finds prove the search for precious metals started as early as the 13th century. Today, VAG ensures that mining has a minimal effect on the environment. Outdated technologies have been replaced with VAG valves, which guarantee that the applicable limit values are not exceeded after the mine water has been remediated. Every year, 2.5 million cubic metres of the highest quality water are remediated, making it safe for the environment and for human consumption. With its integral approach to quality and excellent service, Jihomoravská Armaturka, a manufacturing and sales company within the VAG group, came out ahead of the clearly cheaper competition.

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VAG Hydrants 100 Years of Service

In Koszalin, water is referred to as the city’s biggest treasure. And so it is not surprising that handling this precious resource has had a long tradition in the Polish city. As early as in the 18th century, people began to develop and install a professional water supply system in the city then called Köslin and belonging to Prussia. At the end of the 19th century, the wooden water pipelines were replaced by pipes made of cast iron, and this as the birth of the city’s first modern water supply system.

The renovation of household water supply systems all over Poland, which was completed by the beginning of the 20th century, was partly effected using VAG valves (formerly called Bopp & Reuther). Gate valves, standpost and underground hydrants, house connections, even entire water supply systems were exported from Mannheim, Germany to Poland and to other countries.

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The Tecklenburg biogas plant

The exploration of renewable energies points the way to the environmentally sound generation of power in the 21st century. Biogas plants using renewable raw materials as green resources are a key technology in this respect. They are climate neutral, make use of agricultural products among others and thus have a perfect ecobalance. VAG valves help to accurately control the plants’ complex industrial process equipment and to make them even more efficient through automation. One example can be found in Tecklenburg at the foot of the Teutoburg Forest in Germany. Since January 2007, the Tecklenburg biogas plant has been operating there, using pneumatically actuated valves made in Mannheim, Germany.

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Water Transmission Pipeline in Oman

The Sohar Water Transmission project is important for the long-term supply of the inhabitants and communities along the Strait of Hormuz in the northern area of the Sultanate of Oman. VAG valves guarantee that this mega project runs smoothly and efficiently, and that citizens are supplied with water from the water desalination plants.

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Unique dam project in Algeria

Algeria is situated between the Atlas Mountains in the north and the Sahara desert in the south. Most of the country’s water is supplied from dams. The dams are run by the government, while the pipelines and purification plants are run by the municipalities. The amount of water supplied from the reservoirs did not always match the amount received by the municipalities. This metering and documentation problem was solved by VAG valves: a 2 million Euro project that is yet to be equalled in type, size and cost.

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Drinking water reservoir Kleine Kinzig, Germany

VAG valves and FESTO pneumatic actuators in the new treatment stage

The Kleine Kinzig water supply is the only drinking water reservoir in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and is one of the state's central water supplies. The reservoir is located in the vast forest between Freudenstadt and Alpirsbach and is fed by creeks and sources in the Black Forest. With a maximum holding capacity of 13 million m3, it supplies 250,000 inhabitants. VAG valves were used to build a preliminary purification stage.

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Rur Dam Schwammenauel, Germany

The Rur dam Schwammenauel in the North Eifel mountains has a capacity of 203 million m3, making it one of Germany's largest dams. It catches the rainfall in the headwaters of the Rur. The Schwammenauel power station uses the hydropower station to generate electricity.

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