It’s amazing what can be accomplished when a team of like-minded experts collaborate on a “first-of-its-kind” project. Wavin, alongside KRAH, Aquafin and were commissioned by Besix Infra to produce and construct a huge buffer basin to collect and retain the rain water around the playground in the Villermontstraat — for the municipality of Kontich in Belgium. Made entirely of plastic pipes, the basin has the capacity to collect a massive 840,000 liters of water!

The challenge - rain water retention and collection

The municipality of Kontich (in Belgium) needed a durable and dynamic solution to buffer the rain water around the playground in the Villermontstraat. The city needed a rainwater buffer to collect surplus water from the entire center area — to mitigate the challenge of heavy and long-term precipitation, so that excess rainwater can flow in a controlled manner to the water-sensitive area.

No.: BS/561.0/017/000

This little tool will help the QC of the company to measure quickly and statistically correct the distance of profiles. This tool can be used during the production, thanks to the rollers, and also for a final product control. The gauge will show directly the correct value when three profiles are being measured. So no additional calculation is needed and no "guessing" of the middle of the profile. The rollers at the measurement tools allow an easy and safe measurement during the production, while the mandrel is rotating and the material is hot, but also after the pipe has been cooled down, it can be carried out.

 "In which countries do you work?" "How large is the biggest pipe you can make on the machine?" "What can flow through it?"

The Krah employees willingly answered various questions from a class of young people when they visited the headquarters in Schutzbach.

One entire morning, a technical school had the opportunity to get to know all the machine production runs. Since a machine was fortunately ready at the time of the visit,
the pupils were able to experience a plant in production. We hope that we will be able to make new specialists want to join our team and our business...

How do you celebrate a 50th anniversary appropriately? What´s better than with a tradition that has proven itself even longer... for exactly 208 years. Instead of an in-house party, we organized a company trip to the Oktoberfest in Munich, an event that is known and loved all over the world and that has now even many international imitators.

For the 7-hour drive from the company to Munich we rented a spacious bus, to be able to store the obligatory luggage: because in order to visit the Oktoberfest traditional clothing must not be missing. Even if the dress code is not an obligation to visit the tents - in fact, no Munich citizen would appear at the Oktoberfest without the traditional outfit.

So what did we have in our luggage? Men wear leather trousers and the ladies dress up with a dirndl. The right footwear is very important for a nice Wiesn experience. The area around the biggest folk festival is otherwise quickly a stumbling block. Also with the extensive dancing on the benches (dancing on the tables is taboo) heels are rather unfavorable. And one thing is for sure: Hardly anyone leaves the tents without having danced at least once on the bench... :)