Flying over the ADOX factory

[Team ADOX]

Have a look at the ADOX factory in Bad Saarow / Germany from above :



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[MattKing]

Great to see it from above.
I'd suggest replacing the sound track - Kraftwerk "Spacelab" would seem appropriate .
Good luck in all your endeavours.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Looks like a wonderful environment to be situated in, but all of the roof space and no solar PV cells on the roof?

Mick.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

Looks like a wonderful environment to be situated in, but all of the roof space and no solar PV cells on the roof?...

Perhaps they're not visible under the snow.

In any case, Berlin's insolation probably doesn't hold a candle to what you have in Oz:

https://solargis.com/maps-and-gis-data/download/germany​

 

[guangong]

Looks like a wonderful environment to be situated in, but all of the roof space and no solar PV cells on the roof?

Mick.

My insurance agent told me that fireman will not hose water on building with solar panels on roof. When I see a large field of solar panels, they are usually on the ground.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Guangong, if that was the case in Australia, there would be an enormous problem, we have solar panels everywhere, rooftops, on top of sheds, garages, verandahs sometimes in front and back yards. In our own situation we have PV cells on a flat roof, and four hip rooftops for a total of 5 sites. Also being summer right now and perfect weather with a cloudless sky today and yesterday, we are generating a reasonable amount. Yesterday 52kWh today so far 45kWh and our flow batteries for the house, are around 95% state of charge at 17:20 hrs right now.

I've been to Germany many times and they have much solar PV on rooftops and in fields. From Stuttgart in southern Germany through to Berlin in the north on Autobahns, the amount of solar is staggering, not to mention the squillions of wind generators. My brother in-law in Germany not too far from Tübingen has an interest in his village wind generator and also has an interest in the local to them farm building which has in excess of 300 individual PV cells on the roof.

I will concede that Bad Saarow in Germany is at 52º latitude, whereas I am at 38º latitude, but they would certainly make more solar generation in the summer months than we are capable of.

Mick.

 

[Donald Qualls]

I will concede that Bad Saarow in Germany is at 52º latitude, whereas I am at 38º latitude, but they would certainly make more solar generation in the summer months than we are capable of.

I'm pretty sure that's wrong. For fixed panels, you'd mount them to the average midday solar inclination (which is about equal to your latitude); on a flat roof, this limits your capacity by panel shadowing (which is greater at higher panel angles -- the shadow of the first row requires more space in front of the second, and so on). With tracking panels, you still lose the further you are from the equator, because the sunlight is filtered through more atmosphere due to the lower sun angles.

The end result is that the further you are from the equator, the longer your payback period for a given capital cost to install solar. Make that payback period too long, and businesses will "need" government incentives to add solar panels to roofs.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Neat flying over, but a video tour inside would be much more interesting!

 

[Mick Fagan]

Donald, the closer you get to the Arctic, the longer the daylight hours available in summer, which in turn gives you very good possibilities of more solar generation, on a square metre basis; this was really what I was alluding to.

I had a long conversation with someone living at almost 61º latitude at midnight in beautiful sunlight. Yes the sun was not right above, but he was still getting quite a fair whack of power. His daily generation was slightly more than we manage in summer on a square metre basis, due solely to the amount of hours he has sunlight on his panels. That said, his winter solar generation was non existent, whereas we have quite a fair bit of solar generation in winter.

Mick.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Pretty sure that's only true with tracking panels. With fixed panels, the sun rises behind the panels, even though it's up at 4-something (without daylight time) near the solstice that far north (or south).

 

[halfaman]

Perhaps this interesting discussion about solar pannels in not what Adox was looking for with this thread.

Maybe not. Just saying...

 

[macfred]

Perhaps this interesting discussion about solar pannels in not what Adox was looking for with this thread.

Maybe not. Just saying...

You're probably right ... But does anybody see CHS 100 Type II 120 in the video ?

 

[Tel]

I keep replaying the video but I don't see the color coating building..........

 

[Ernst-Jan]

I never new there where coating facilities in Switzerland as well as in Germany.
Which product is made where?

 

[mshchem]

Quite nice. No visible emissions above the plant. No steam, pollution, looks good!

 

[Team ADOX]

I never new there where coating facilities in Switzerland as well as in Germany.
Which product is made where?

For our factory in Switzerland, please have a look here:
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...switzerland-medium-scale-coating-line.128145/

At our headquarter in Bad Saarow, Germany, the following business units are located:
- all administration / offices
- Fotoimpex warehouse and shipment
- Fotoimpex lab
- photo chemistry production and finishing / bottling
- R&D
- emulsion production
- coating machine
- film & photo paper converting / finishing.
The Switzerland factory is supplementing the headquarter operations in terms of R&D, partly chemical production and the smaller scale, very flexible coating machine.

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[Team ADOX]

Quite nice. No visible emissions above the plant. No steam, pollution, looks good!

We are working with the highest standards in environmental protection and health / safety standards for the employees.
That is very important for us.
We have also introduced several new products in the past with significantly improved environmental characteristics (more eco-friendly) and improved handling characteristics for the user (less toxic / nontoxic). More of these improvements are in the R&D pipeline.

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