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BYK Additives will construct a cutting-edge laboratory building at its site in Wesel. The aim is to generate innovations together with customers and for customers in end-use labs. Besides this, the new building will make integrated seminar and function rooms available for the numerous visits by customers.
BYK estimates a total project implementation period of around four years. Completion is envisaged in the second quarter of 2028.
Investing 25 Million Euros in Construction
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This will be of special benefit to our customers who seek to develop their project solutions here on-site with BYK experts. It was therefore logical to plan a further story where we will soon be able to host customer events, visits, and seminars,” Dr. Stefan Mößmer, managing director, BYK Marketing & Commercial.
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At around 25 million euros construction costs, a particular intention of the innovation complex is to provide modern, state-of-the-art laboratories for the BYK end uses while at the same time allowing more breathing space for existing end-use, applications labs, and R&D facilities,” added Dr. Mößmer.
In the planning, particular importance is attached to efficient energy consumption. Heating and cooling, for instance, will be entirely fueled by heat pumps and photovoltaic systems.
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With regard to sustainability, safeguarding the future, and ecology, we wish to equip the building and further adjacent laboratory buildings – with heat recovery, as well as meeting the full energy needs of this new innovations construction with 100 percent renewable energies,” added Dr. Hinnerwisch. Added to which, sustainable materials will be deployed throughout the entire project.
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BYK is networked with its customers worldwide and, with this innovative laboratory complex, it will be creating space for effective communication as well as for developments and cooperation with our customers and distributors. At the same time, the new building will offer us more opportunities for our exclusive on-site seminars that are so much in demand,” said Dr. Jörg Hinnerwisch, president, BYK Division.
An old laboratory building will make way for the approximately 47 x 18 x 14.5 meters construction with a total area of 5,100 square meters so that it can be fully integrated into the existing structure at the BYK campus in Wesel.
Source: BYK