Services
Hydraulic Steel Structures
Screens, screen cleaning, gates, sluices and weir flaps.
What carries the water has to hold.
Fine screens keep debris away from the intake, gates control the flow, flaps hold water back and release it again: hydraulic steel structures are what makes a hydro-electric plant workable in the first place. We design, manufacture and install these components — and keep them in service for decades.
Because we run plants of our own, we plan from the point of view of the person who later has to operate them: a closing element must still move after standing still for a long time, and it must be serviceable without draining half the plant.
Screens and Screen Cleaning
Fine screens in stainless steel keep debris away from the intake. So that they keep doing so, we build the matching cleaning machine to go with them — from a compact raker through to a version with an excavator arm.
Bar spacing, inclination and reach follow the plant and the conditions on site, not a catalogue.
Gates, Sluices and Flaps
Intake and shut-off gates, bottom-outlet and flushing sluices, weir and flushing flaps: we manufacture the closing elements together with their drives, guides and seals.
Refurbishing existing installations is part of the work as well — right down to overhauling a roof weir and fitting it with a new timber deck.
What we build
- Cross-flow screen cleaners — for intake channels, on our own steel structure, with fish-screen profile where required
- Carousel and excavator-type screen cleaners — for wide intakes and great screen depths, with screenings discharged into the bypass channel
- Fine screens, galvanised or stainless, in flat-round-flat design
- Slide and roller gates, inlet, shut-off and flushing gates
- Flap weir systems, weir and flushing flaps
- Overhaul of listed historic hydraulic steel structures
- Screenings disposal
Completed installations
- Dörflmühle hydropower plant, Frauenau
- Roller gate as emergency closure 3000 × 2500 mm · telescopic screen cleaner, screen width 3000 mm, extension 4000 mm · fine screen 3000 × 3800 mm, clear spacing 10 mm
- Theresienthal hydropower plant, Zwiesel
- Slide gate at the intake 5000 × 2600 mm · excavator-type screen cleaner, screen width 5000 mm, depth 3800 mm, screenings discharged into the bypass channel · fine screen 5000 × 4000 mm, clear spacing 15 mm · flushing gate 800 × 800 mm
- Kloster Rebdorf hydropower plant, Eichstätt
- Two slide gates at the intake, 4400 × 3600 mm each · excavator-type screen cleaner, screen width 8000 mm, depth 4200 mm · fine screen 8000 × 4000 mm, clear spacing 20 mm
- Oleumhütte hydropower plant, Regen
- Single-girder overhead crane with hand winch drive, 5000 kg · excavator-type screen cleaner, 5000 mm wide, 4500 mm deep · fine screen 10 000 × 4000 mm, clear spacing 20 mm · intake gates 5400 × 3900 mm each · control gate as roller gate 2700 × 2200 mm
- Gerstenecker hydropower plant, Zwiesel
- Excavator-type screen cleaner mounted on the side walls, screen width 8000 mm, depth 3500 mm
- Fölschnitz hydropower plant, Kulmbach
- Plant conversion · cross-flow screen cleaner in the intake channel on a steel structure, screen height 1500 mm, length 6100 mm, bar spacing 20 mm in fish-screen profile · flushing flap 2400 × 1900 mm
Is a screen or a gate due at your plant?
Tell us about the installation — we will take a look and say what is worth doing.
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