Our Annual Stock Take will take place from Thursday the 23rd November to Friday 24th November. If you have an order due to ship on either the Thursday or the Friday – These orders should, where stock is available, ship on Wednesday the 22nd November or Monday 27th November.
Please note: our annual stock take will take place during 28-29th November. No orders will be shipped during this time. Thank you for your understanding.
Our offices will close for the Christmas period on Tuesday 23rd December at 17.00 and re-open on Friday 2nd January 2026 at 08:30
The last shipment out of Telford to customers will be on Friday 19th December For UK stock, customers must place their manual E-mail orders by 4.30pm Wednesday 17th December at the latest. Online orders must be placed by 12 noon on Thursday 18th December. Any orders placed after 12 noon on Thursday 18th December may not be shipped in 2025.
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Our offices will be closed from 11.00am Thursday 17th July until 12.00pm Friday 18th July 2025 for a team building event.
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Please note: We will be completing our annual stocktake on 27-28th November and will be unable to ship orders on these dates. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
A lot of power in a small space: K+S introduces a power station marking system
K+S introduces a power station identification system
K+S has introduced the KKS identification system in a potash plant with an in-house power station – using system expertise from Gabo IDM and marking labels from Phoenix Contact. Not only did this substantially improve their overview of the plant, it also increased process reliability and occupational safety considerably.
K+S is an international raw materials company which extracts and processes mineral resources for use in agriculture, food, road safety, and industry. A new labeling system was to be introduced for a potash plant.
Application
Since the mining operation and crude salt processing are energy-intensive, a combined cycle power plant with a thermal firing capacity of 116 MW is operated. Before the KKS marking system was introduced, there was a wide range of different markings and documentation in use. There were many reasons for introducing a comprehensive and standard-compliant identification and documentation system for all plant sections and equipment based on the standardized power station marking system, KKS. The primary aim was to increase operational safety, and to improve occupational health and safety.
A complex hybrid system was created over several decades due to different plant builders. The plant marking and documentation were not from a single source. Mixing up a unit or cable can result in serious personal injury or damage to the plant. In addition, the plan was to make maintenance and servicing easier, and for operation to be safer.
Christian Berghausen from K+S (left) and Hans Karl Preuss from Gabo IDM
Solution
To prepare, Gabo IDM coordinated the transfer of all the existing plant documentation and data structures to the AVIS management system, developed in-house. “Using an actual state analysis of the technical documentation of the existing installation, we checked which standards and regulations were already complied with,” explains Hans Karl Preuss, General Manager of Gabo IDM. “With a view to achieving the required level of conformity, the necessary directives were drafted.” All the process steps were discussed with Berghausen and his team and gradually implemented.
Following this intensive preparatory work, all inventory plans were digitalized. The old markings were transferred to the new marking system in accordance with KKS. An additional database was set up to ensure transparent conversion from the old system to the new system. Altogether, more than 4,800 plant marking labels were produced by Phoenix Contact. The TOPMARK LASER marking system was drafted in for this. It uses a special laser process to ensure good legibility and high resistance.
The marking labels produced by Phoenix Contact in Blomberg were then matched with the appropriate colors to indicate the medium and mounted in the plant using special carriers. In the case of pipelines for water and gas, the medium and the direction of flow were indicated in detail.
Thanks to our KKS project, we have been able to substantially improve our overview of the plant and increase process reliability considerably. Our expectations have been fully met, both from a technical point of view and with regard to the time frame.
Find out more about our printers in the MARKING system family. With the wide range of marking technologies we offer, you are guaranteed to find the right solution for your application. The uniform, user-friendly menu enables intuitive handling.
