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ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik to Supply Pipe, Sheet Pile to Seal Dam in Israel
03/15/2012 - Dead Sea Works Ltd. has awarded ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik GmbH a contract to seal a dam in the southern Dead Sea. The contract includes delivery of some 38,000 tonnes of sheet piles and around 17,000 tonnes of pipe.
Dead Sea Works Ltd., Israel, has awarded ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik GmbH, Germany, a major contract to seal a dam in the southern Dead Sea.
The contract includes the delivery of 55,000 tonnes of material comprising roughly 38,000 tonnes of sheet piles and around 17,000 tonnes of pipe with welded-on corner profiles.
Dead Sea Works Ltd. mines table salt, bromine and other salts from the Dead Sea, one of the world’s richest mineral deposits. The already completed dam regulates the water level in the mining area. Sealing measures will be designed to help prevent the dam from being undercut by seawater.
Because the deep ground is not suitable for mechanical driving work, sheet piles and pipe must be sunk under their own weight into a specially prepared trench over a length of 18 kilometers. This will create one of the world’s biggest diaphragm walls with inserted sheet pile wall.
ThyssenKrupp has already begun shipments from Bremerhaven in Germany to the Israeli sea ports of Ashdod or Haifa. Deliveries for the project are scheduled for completion at the end of 2012.
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik specializes in civil engineering, offering an integrated range of machinery and equipment backed by customer-oriented services. Pile driving advice, structural analyses, driving and anchoring plans, customer service and spare parts complete the picture, making the company a leading system supplier in maritime and specialized civil engineering.
