EDITION 02.2015
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Pump technologies and solutions COMPANY
PEOPLE
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Overseas representation:
SPECK Pumpen in the
Netherlands
Our apprentices visit a
pump manufacturer
Pool technologies and
solutions for private
swimming pools
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Individual
control
SPECK Pumpen equips a golf course
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Green keeping from your smartphone
Photo: Paul Mazurek
EDITORIAL
Dear customers, dear partners,
We finally have some sun! After a long winter, with
little snow and even less sunshine, spring arrived
at last. The wonderful May sun has finally lured
us out of the house and into the fresh green of
the outdoors. The adverts for “May butter” came
thick and fast in Germany with colourful flowering
meadows and fresh, green grass (May butter is
well-known in Germany for having a significantly
better quality).
Photo: Tanja Bolte
Thanks to all the rain we’ve had this year the grass
will grow especially green and lush. Who doesn’t
dream of a refreshing blue pool among the fresh
green grass of their garden? “Don’t dream your life,
live your dream!” – Many families really do put the
spirit of this popular wall tattoo into practice: now
is the perfect time to plan your own swimming
pool!
With the first extended period of good weather,
we once again put in the overtime. From the
after-sales service, to production and dispatch,
we at SPECK Pumpen are all working hard so that
you can live your dream.
We are happy to sweat a bit more again this summer in the hope of many happy and fresh customers here in Germany and overseas.
Your Armin Herger
Managing Director
SPECK Pumpen Verkaufsgesellschaft GmbH
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COMPANY
SPECK POMPEN NEDERLAND
Water and fire
in the Netherlands
Half of our neighbouring country to the north lies less
than a meter above sea level. A good quarter of it is even
below sea level. Every Netherlander learns to swim at
the age of five - not through fear of the sea, but through
their love of water.
Around 3,000 km of embankments protect
the Netherlanders against flooding. Surfaces
that are very important for the country: with
approximately 400 inhabitants per square
meter it is one of the most densely populated
countries on earth. Our colleagues from SPECK
Pompen Nederland report on how the “Dutch”,
as we often wrongly refer to our neighbours,
are not only enthusiastic swimmers, but absolute connoisseurs of wellness and relaxation.
Zevenaar, Netherlands – directly behind the
German border lies Zevenaar. The close proximity to
the border, as well as good motorway and railway
connections have attracted many logistics companies. Our representation also has its offices in this
borough. Our pumps normally need less than 24 hours
from Neunkirchen to Zevenaar.
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SPECK Pompen Nederland BV was founded in 1985
by Jan Aghina. Charl Stapelbroek started working
there in 1988 as a technician. Trained both in economics and in law, he soon moved into the sales department. Finally in 1999 he took over the company
and the management. He puts a lot of value on team
spirit and therefore appointed Alex Bolder, Head of
Sales and power of attorney, and Debby Elfrink, Back
Office Manager, company managers.
His team suffered a severe setback: on 6 September
2013 a neighbouring plastics factory set on fire. The
fire spread quickly and neither the country’s abundance of water nor the 100 fire fighters could prevent
SPECK Pompen’s administration offices, warehouse
and fleet of vehicles from being completely destroyed
within just a few hours. Thank goodness no one was
injured!
After an improvised temporary space solution, they
were able to move into their new building in May
2014 and they certainly made the most of being able
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COMPANY
SPECK POMPEN NEDERLAND
Various pumps have to be repaired or replaced quickly,
professionally and without complication. Apart from
the right language, what counts is a well arranged
spare parts and pump warehouse as the ships aren’t
in the docks for long.
SPECK Pompen counts well-known shipyards and the
Netherlands marine among their shipping customers.
AK version BADU pumps are also put to use in areas other than those intended. Designed for thermal
pools, these pumps are often also used in fish farming
in the Netherlands due to their corrosion resistance
against saltwater.
Every town has a swimming pool and swimming les­
sons were an integral part of the curriculum until just
recently. The Netherlanders are very hard-working
people and therefore like to use their free time to relax. Charl Stapelbroek describes the public swimming
pool market “Everything has to be available: slides,
whirlpool, sauna, saltwater pool, massage etc.” That
goes for the camping and caravanning population too
– campsites in the Netherlands mostly have their own,
well-equipped swimming pool.
to start from scratch. The architecture and interior of
the building, as well as the operational organisation
was designed in a modern style. Seeing as there was
no longer a paper archive, it was easy to build up a
paper-free office structure.
Since January 2015 the representation in Zevenaar
has been corresponding in English. “We are a historically matured trade country! We have many international contacts – among which there are more
and more major customers who speak English” is
Stapelbroek’s reasoning behind the language change.
Countless ships from all over the world dock in
Rotterdam harbour each day and with them come
many international enquiries for our colleagues.
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Well-equipped can also be said of the new workshop
at SPECK Pompen – a digital test stand for centrifugal
pumps with a flow rate of up to 150 m³/h leaves no
question unanswered when it comes to repairs.
This year our Netherlanders supplied a public pool
with 102 BADU BK swimming pool solar panels for
environmentally friendly pool heating. Three new indoor pools were assembled completely with SPECK
pumps. Many other interesting projects are in the
planning phase and ensure that the swimming pool
market in the Netherlands definitely won’t go under
anytime soon!
1 Our team in the Netherlands
Photo: SPECK Pompen Nederland
2 The new building in Zevenaar
Photo: SPECK Pompen Nederland
3 Paperless and modern: The interior
Photo: SPECK Pompen Nederland
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COMPANY
TRADE FAIRS
SPECK Pumpen on tour
The spring trade fairs led seamlessly into the main
season and SPECK remains international and on the
move in 2015.
Back from the last professional event of the
spring in Singapore and it’s straight into the
main season for our trade fair and sales team.
Whatever happens now we will discuss in
depth at the industry trade fairs in Europe in
autumn. Don’t miss out! Nothing is more important to us after a turbulent summer than
having a little time for direct and personal
contact to our partners and customers. We are
looking forward to seeing you!
SPECK Pumpen in Singapore:
Hermann Speck, Christoph Ott, Armin Herger and
Thanusak Phungdet
Photo: SPECK Pumpen
Piscina Splash! Asia, Singapore – although four
years have passed since SPECK’s first trade fair appearance in Singapore, we can still talk of pioneer
work this time around, at least when comparing the
Southeast Asian market with the familiar markets in
Europe. Although for our European standards a rather
low turnout, the event organisers in Singapore were
very pleased to welcome more than 1,000 visitors
to the trade fair. For us it was also a very successful
event. Many decision-makers from the entire region,
among others the neighbouring countries Malaysia,
Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, visited the SPECK
Pumpen booth.
The market there is developing slowly but surely and
has a lot of potential. Head of Sales BADU, Christoph
Ott summarised “We have already been successful
for some years in Southeast Asia. We have very
good contacts that we were able to maintain at the
Piscine Splash! which means that Singapore will also
be worth a visit for us in 2017!”
We expect to see you in Barcelona, Cologne and
Amsterdam at the end of the season for a general
conclusion to the German and European swimming
pool markets. We’re looking forward to hearing your
evaluations and hope that we will be able to look back
on a good season together. Of course we also look
forward to seeing your reactions to our new ideas.
Please be sure to get in touch and request your trade
fair entry tickets in good time!
info@speck-pumps.com
AUTUMN TRADE FAIRS 2015
Piscina, Barcelona, Spain
13.10.-16.10.2015
International aquatic exhibition
GRAN VIA, hall P2, level 0, street B, booth no. 268
Aquanale, Cologne, Germany
27.10.-30.10.2015
International trade fair for sauna.pool.ambience
Hall 6.1, booth no. 20/21 C/D
Aquatech, Amsterdam, Netherlands
03.11.-06.11.2015
International trade exhibition for process, drinking
and waste water technology
Hall 1, booth no. 01.206
TECHNOLOGIES
GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB REGENSBURG
Above all the pump control
saves us a lot of time!«
Christian Löffl, Head Green Keeper
once the maximum water level is reached. If the
water levels reach critical, the whole unit turns off
and an error message is sent to the green keeper’s
smartphone. It’s also possible to control the system
manu­ally via a smartphone and to retrieve parameters
such as the water level, total pressure and operating
conditions.
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Perfect green
for a princely tee
There’s been no hunting in the Thiergarten in Regensburg
for some time now, even if the 2,000+ antlers in the Princes
from Thurn and Taxis’ hunting lodge suggest this. Today the
approximately 80 hector area scores top marks above all for
its perfect grass.
The “Golf - und Land-Club Regensburg e.V.”
(Golf and country club in Regensburg) is voted
among Germany’s best golf courses year after
year. That has a lot to do with the top maintained greens and these are the main focus for
the guests of the former hunting reserve, as
well as for the main green keepers. They keep
the course in top condition. Christian Löffl
leads the complex tasks. One of which is the
irrigation. We have built an individual control
so that he can sleep at night!
Jagdschloss Thiergarten, Regensburg – until now
the green keeper on duty often had “sleepless nights”.
The problem being that the lawns on the golf course
have to be irrigated, but must not be flooded! A pond
contains enough water for the irrigation and pumps
use this to fill a smaller pond in the middle of the
golf course, about 2 km away. There, a booster unit
extracts water for the irrigation of the lawns.
Depending on the water levels and demand, the
pumps have to be turned on by hand at night. There
is a risk of the small pond flooding if the pumps aren’t
turned off in time. A convenient solution was not only
required to secure a healthy night’s sleep, the reduction of the energy consumption, time required and
pump load were also essential, as well as a constantly
optimal water level in the pond.
Christian Löffl and his team won’t get bored. Alongside the lawns they spend approximately two thirds
of their time in operations buildings with electrical
and mechanical engineering as well as the remote
control of the irrigation system.
1 Stefan Weich (electrical engineering contractor),
Christian Löffl (Head Green Keeper) and Daniel Pfister
(SPECK Pumpen)
Photo: Paul Mazurek
2 Lawn irrigation and a full pond at the golf and country
club in Regensburg
Photo: Paul Mazurek
One problem stood in the way of the control’s implementation for a long time: there is no electrical
connection between the two ponds. Using diggers
across 2 km through the middle of the golf course
was out of the question. Luckily the club’s electri­cian
and SPECK Pumpen service partner, Stefan Weich,
contacted the right man. Our sales representative
Daniel Pfister solved the problem using two GSM
modules.
A submersible pressure transmitter now records the
water level in the pond. If the minimum water level
has been reached, the “upper control” sends a start
command via text message to the “lower control” in
the pump in the larger pond. These then start with a
soft start and are stopped in exactly the same way
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PEOPLE
TRAINING
The view beyond the pump
To do an apprenticeship is to broaden your horizons. At
SPECK Pumpen this also includes taking in the view be­
yond the pump, so to say. What do the other colleagues
do? How are the departments made up? And how does
that all come together? In future the junior employees
will not only have to know their own role, but should also
be able to constructively scrutinise, which is great when
that’s what the apprentices are already doing now!
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1 Torsten Hahn and our apprentices on a tour of the
company
Photo: SPECK Pumpen
2 The 16 apprentices arrive at their destination: SPECK
Pumpen in Roth
Photo: SPECK Pumpen
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It was the apprentices‘ explicit request to get
to know another company and so they set out
to explore SPECK Pumpen in Roth. Both pump
manufacturers are independent from each
other and trace back to a family run company, founded in 1909. The different product
range, varied production processes and dif­
ferent company structure were of great inter­
est to the 16 apprentices.
and achieve the same quality standards by doing the
exact opposite? There, one member of staff takes on
all work steps up until the final testing of the pump.
The apprentices were able to answer many of the
questions themselves based on the products and
their fields of application. Whereas swimming pool
circulation pumps are mainly produced as a range,
pumps for special industrial fields of application have,
to a high degree, to be produced individually.
Roth bei Nürnberg – accompanied by the Training
Manager Sylvia Schmitt, the three year groups set
off in two busses, and with lots of questions, to visit the pump manufacturer SPECK in Roth. Torsten
Hahn, Head of Quality Management, was ready with
the answers. He sincerely welcomed the group, talked
them through the company presentation and led
them on a tour of the company.
The youngsters also got to know a different
warehousing system, marvelled at the work speed of
the new CNC machine compared to an old one and
gained and interesting insight into an order management system which uses coloured barcodes.
Why is it more effective and better for quality standards to have multiple production staff implement a
certain work step each in Neunkirchen? Why do the
staff in Roth maintain that they are able to save time
After being invited to dine in the canteen the group
moved on. So that they would have time to take
everything in, they made a little stop off at the bowl­
ing alley. Finally, on their day out they learned that
good relations are also an essential factor for success.
EDITION 02.2015
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Pool technologies and solutions > swimming pool private
TECHNOLOGIES
Hot off the press: all BADU GREEN
products in one overview
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BADU 90 Eco Motion
Highly efficient, professional circulation pump
for large pools
TECHNICAL INFO
Performance
Pool size: 30-200 m³
Flow rate: max. 40 m³
Total head: max. 19 mWS
Inlet/outlet: 90/90 mm
Motor data
Speed: 1018-2910 rpm
Power input P1: 0.24-2.50 kW
Power output P2: 0.18-2.20 kW
Motor voltage: 1~ 230 V
Frequency: 50/60 Hz
Rated current: 1.80-14.90 A
Type of motor enclosure: IP 55
Noise level: 50.1-73.5 dB(A)
Features
External speed control
Analogue/digital
The BADU 90 Eco Motion completes great tasks professionally. As
well as hotel pools and swimming
pool attractions, smaller public
pools and large private pools are
its area of expertise. Above all
it is highly efficient! Your swimming pool specialist will ensure
optimal use of the energy saving
poten­tial on site during the initial
start-up.
This pump is at home in premium class
swimming baths and pools. It fulfills
the most demanding requirements
with high comfort and low consumption. Relaxation both by the pool and
with the operating costs is guaranteed!
The BADU 90 Eco Motion combines
the powerful and reliable BADU 90/40
with an asynchronous motor. A con­
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form with a plug-in principle makes this
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pump.
The user-friendly intuitive operation
via touchpad, as well as serial inter-
faces, hardly allow for any more comfort in a circulation pump! You can keep
your eye on all of the essential parameters at all times with the operating data
log and control function. The pump
can be controlled from both analogue
and digital signals. The BADU 90 Eco
Motion can therefore be integrated into
every control system.
It’s important that the programming
is carried out by a professional dur­
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to get the most out of the BADU 90
Eco Motion’s highest energy saving
potential! Unnecessary energy costs
will come back to bite you if you try
to save during the set up. The values
set will remain saved, even if there is
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Scan the QR code for
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product video
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TECHNOLOGIES
PUBLICATIONS
BADU GREEN .
For a clear conscience in the pool
Enjoy the sun; swim; relax in warm water;
and all of this with a clear conscience, because you’re saving energy and protecting
the environment. BADU makes it possible
with pool technologies and solutions from
BADU GREEN.
BADU GREEN products are avail­
able for private starter pools in
the back garden to large public
units, as circulation pumps for the
most varied demands and as solar
pool heating with optimal configu­
ration for all pool sizes. You can
now find all of the efficient and
intelligent energy savers in one
brochure.
The products marked with the BADU
GREEN label place particular value
on efficient energy consumption and
therefore also on the lowest possible
operating costs. Nine circulation pumps
and two swimming pool solar panels
for pool heating have already earned
this distinction and there will be more
to come in the future, of that we are
sure.
More and more pool owners are making
a conscience decision to choose energy efficiency, reduce operating costs
and build a clean future. Seeing as we
also have the same goal, we want to
make the decision easier for you by
providing you with the relevant information. Therefore we have compiled a
brochure of our BADU GREEN products
in a clearly arranged PDF document.
Get a better understanding of the performance, technical data and features
across 20 pages and if you want more
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calculate the exact saving potential for
your current pool. In this way you’re
well prepared for a consultation with
your swimming pool builder!
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June 2015
Article no 766.2902.035
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