Tag Archives: WESTKALK

This year’s winter repairs in the WESTKALK Vereinigte Warsteiner Kalksteinindustrie GmbH & Co. KG in Warstein and Kallenhardt, both Germany, were concluded with the replacement of a more than 820 m long rubber conveyor belt in the Kallenhardt works (Figure 1). The replacement had become necessary after seven years because the belt hat worn severely over the years. During this ...

Just a stone’s throw from the limestone quarry in Kallenhardt, there is now a new geocaching location. The search leads to a lookout point with a stunning panoramic view. At an existing information board, the “cachers” – and, of course, also walkers who are not hunting for the cache – can learn about the nature in front of them. The ...

The biodiversity in a quarry is often much higher after the end of excavation work than prior to starting. This is reflected by the decades of experience and the previous data of the biodiversity database of the Baden-Württemberg Industry Association of Stone and Earth (ISTE). The Baden-Württemberg database project will also be available soon throughout Germany. Then the data from ...

With regards to work safety, health- and environmental protection the enterprise WESTKALK Vereinigte Warsteiner Kalksteinindustrie GmbH & Co. KG, Warstein/Germany, is planning to install an own extraction system for limestone spillage in their jet mill at the factory in Kallenhardt (Figure 1). This is supposed to improve the plant’s cleanliness and reduce dust exposure for staff members and surroundings long-term. ...

Fourteen budding engineers for raw material extraction from the TH Georg Agricola University in Bochum/Germany visited WESTKALK’s Kallenhardt plant on a study trip (Figure 1). They were accompanied on their excursion by a drone, which documented the university group’s activities with a photo flight. Nowadays, drones are used for surveying, which is required in quarries for their annual mass calculation, ...