[...]Lyon, France In the south-west of Lyon, France's third largest city, the new modern La Saulaie district is currently under construction. It will provide new flats and houses for more than 2,000 people as well as commercial space, parks and leisure facilities. The existing district on the banks of the Rhône is being modernised and extended on the currently unused site of the French railway company SCNF. Sustainable energy supply As the issue of sustainability plays a similarly important role in France as it does in Germany, a sustainable energy supply for the district was particularly important[...]
[...]Houston, TX USA In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast and struck it hard. The devastating category 4 hurricane caused unprecedented flooding. In addition to more than $125 billion in property damage, the storm completely destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes. Within just four days, more than one metre of rain per square metre fell in many areas in the Houston region, making Harvey the rainiest storm ever recorded in the United States. Since Hurricane Harvey, the Houston region has repeatedly experienced severe storms, which is why the National Weather Service (NWS) has [...]
[...]Berching, Germany How it all began... In the 1950s and 1960s, manhole covers in "painted steel" and "galvanised steel" were proven products of the HUBER company and the covers were mainly manufactured for water pipeline construction. At the beginning of the 1970s, the brothers Hans and Karl-Josef Huber, the company owners at the time, recognised the desire and need of many customers for a low-maintenance manhole cover that did not require maintenance work such as regular painting of the surface. The idea of using stainless steel for this purpose was born and was implemented on a trial basis. At that [...]
[...]Manfouha, Saudi Arabia HUBER SE has won the first of three major projects in the field of solar sewage sludge drying in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. The long-standing customer Alkhorayef Water&Power Technologies has placed an order with HUBER SE for the supply of 50 lines of HUBER Sludge Turner SOLSTICE®. This also includes the automatic sludge feeding with HUBER Screw Conveyors of a total length of approx. 900 metres. The contractor Alkhorayef Water&Power will operate the Manfouha wastewater treatment plant for a period of 15 years and expand it with various process steps such as solar[...]
[...]Guangzhou, China The 16th Asia Olympics will take place at Guangzhou (Guangdong province), China, from 12 to 27 November. They are the biggest sport event in Asia and held every four years. All Asians, in a fever of excitement, are waiting for the Games to begin, so the venues will certainly be well attended. For such a major sporting event as the Asia Olympics the local infrastructure needs to be modernized and expanded. This includes also wastewater disposal and treatment plants, the capacity of which needs to be extended and their technical standard improved to state-of-the-art. HUBER SE [...]
[...]Lectures, plant tour and workshop on innovation and technology topics at the HUBER Forum Focus topic: Aquaculture – Fishfarming Torsten Hackner (Head of Business Unit Industry at HUBER): ”All-round successful and valuable event” On Thursday, 17 November 2022, the 17th meeting of the German Water Partnership (GWP) working group “Industrial Water Management” took place at the headquarters of HUBER SE in Berching/Erasbach. Besides informative presentations, the highlight of the meeting, which focused on aquaculture – fish farming, was the factory tour at HUBER. A workshop on innovation and [...]
[...]Great honour for the Berching-based company HUBER: On Tuesday, 18 October 2022, Silke Auer, head of the Neumarkt IHK office, presented the honorary certificate of the Regensburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Upper Palatinate / Kelheim, to which the district of Neumarkt belongs. Certificate of honour from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Regensburg for Upper Palatinate / Kelheim, office Neumarkt i.d.OPf. Johanna Rong (member of the supervisory board and shareholder) and Georg Huber (CEO and shareholder) accepted the certificate of honour ”Certificate of honour for outstanding [...]
[...]Ibbenbüren-Püsselbüren, Germany Ibbenbüren-Püsselbüren WWTP relies on future-oriented partnership with HUBER SE HUBER service and maintenance contracts have become a key success factor on the German market. With more than 4,000 machines and plants benefiting from HUBER service contracts in Germany alone, this reflects the high demand and effectiveness. At the end of autumn 2023, the success story of HUBER Global Service reached another milestone with the conclusion of the 1500th service and maintenance contract for the Ibbenbüren-Püsselbüren wastewater treatment plant. This important milestone[...]