Kemira expands partnership with Bilfinger

Kemi­ra, a glob­al chem­i­cals com­pa­ny serv­ing cus­tomers in water-inten­sive indus­tries, is expand­ing its long­stand­ing coop­er­a­tion with Bil­fin­ger to Swe­den. Bil­fin­ger, which has been pro­vid­ing Kemi­ra with var­i­ous ser­vices at the Aus­tri­an loca­tion in Krems since 2001, now also assumes exclu­sive respon­si­bil­i­ty for main­te­nance and project-relat­ed ser­vices, includ­ing engi­neer­ing, at Kemira’s Hels­ing­borg loca­tion in south­ern Swe­den from June 1, 2018. This suc­cess was pre­ced­ed by a com­pre­hen­sive selec­tion pro­ce­dure from which Bil­fin­ger emerged the win­ner thanks main­ly to the Bil­fin­ger Main­te­nance Con­cept (BMC). The con­tract in Swe­den runs for a peri­od of about three-and-a-half years and has a vol­ume of around €25 million.

“The expan­sion of the long­stand­ing coop­er­a­tion with an inter­na­tion­al cus­tomer like Kemi­ra under­scores our strong mar­ket posi­tion. As a lead­ing indus­tri­al ser­vices provider, we have for decades been ensur­ing that our cus­tomers can focus on their core busi­ness while we opti­mize their main­te­nance costs and, at the same time, increase the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of their plants.”
Ger­ald Pilot­to, Exec­u­tive Pres­i­dent of Bilfinger’s Main­te­nance, Mod­i­fi­ca­tions & Oper­a­tions (MMO) Con­ti­nen­tal Europe division

In March 2018, the firm was rec­og­nized by the cus­tomer with the first-ever Sup­pli­er Excel­lence Award for its per­for­mance at the Kemi­ra loca­tion in Krems. The ser­vice port­fo­lio in Krems cov­ers engi­neer­ing and main­te­nance with a focus on mechan­i­cal as well as elec­tri­cal and automa­tion engi­neer­ing. Bil­fin­ger also car­ries out projects relat­ed to the con­struc­tion and mod­i­fi­ca­tion of plants and is respon­si­ble for mate­r­i­al management.
In Hels­ing­borg, where Kemi­ra has about 300 employ­ees and pro­duces chem­i­cals for water treat­ment as well as bleach, Bil­fin­ger is now deliv­er­ing a scope of ser­vices sim­i­lar to what is pro­vid­ed in Krems. Hels­ing­borg is Kemira’s largest location.
With the BMC, the com­pa­ny has com­bined and struc­tured the com­pre­hen­sive exper­tise it has gained from decades of expe­ri­ence. The objec­tive is to be able to pro­vide cus­tomers with the same high main­te­nance stan­dard no mat­ter where they are locat­ed. The BMC is divid­ed into 16 mod­ules and is based on the expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge from more than 400 main­te­nance analy­ses. The con­cept is pre­cise­ly tai­lored to the indi­vid­ual wish­es of the cus­tomer. With a con­sis­tent appli­ca­tion, the poten­tial for reduc­tion of annu­al main­te­nance costs over a peri­od of five years is up to 40 per­cent, while plant pro­duc­tiv­i­ty can be increased by up to 10 per­cent under cer­tain conditions.