Hanau, Germany, May 26, 2025 – For the world’s first large-scale CCU facility in a German cement plant, deugro Hanau successfully delivered four tanks and a heat exchanger to a cement plant in Triefenstein-Lengfurt am Main, Germany.
deugro was awarded the contract to deliver the components by its client Linde Engineering, who designed and built the CCU facility. With a capture capacity of 70,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, it is scheduled to go into operation in 2025.
deugro’s logistical scope encompassed the delivery of four 75-metric-ton storage tanks, with unit measurements of 30.45 x 4.80 x 4.80 meters, from Turkey via Belgium by truck, coaster vessel and barge, as well as a 180-metric-ton and 13.50 x 5.35 x 5.50-meter heat exchanger by truck and barge from Haren/Ems in Germany to the construction site in Lengfurt am Main, Germany.
Although “only” two kilometers long, the biggest challenge was the on-carriage from the river port in Lengfurt to the construction site. This encompassed mountainous sections with considerable road gradients as well as narrow sections through a village with 90-degree sharp turns—together with a tight just-in-time schedule and in-sequence delivery.
The over 30-meter-long tanks were picked up at the supplier’s facility in Kayseri, Turkey by special lowbed trailer trucks and moved to the Port of Iskenderun, where they were loaded by shore cranes onto a coaster vessel for their ocean voyage to the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Here is where the tanks were loaded onto barges and shipped to a private jetty in Lengfurt, Germany for direct discharge onto truck–trailer configurations consisting of 16-axle modular trailers with an additional cargo deck extension fitting the length of the cargo, supported by a big mobile crane arranged for by deugro’s team. Due to local regulations for the overland transportation of oversized and heavy lift (OSHL) cargo, the two-kilometer on-carriage journey to the construction site had to be scheduled after 10 o’clock at night local time and required several preparations. These included the placing of no-parking signs as well as police and private escorts for blocking the route during the ongoing transport.
The 180-metric-ton heat exchanger was picked up from the pier and loaded onto a barge at the supplier’s premises in Haren/Ems before being shipped to the Lengfurt private jetty. After arrival, it was unloaded onto a truck–trailer configuration consisting of 16-axle modular trailers by two mobile cranes in tandem lift operations, for on-carriage by night and delivery to the construction site using the same route as the tanks. For the on-carriage trucking, a second tractor head was mobilized to assist the uphill delivery route.
“Thanks to the excellent and professional cooperation with the client and all partners, all components arrived safely and in time at the construction plant. We are glad to be contributing our logistics services to this exciting project, enabling the captured carbon from cement production to be utilized as a valuable raw material for further industrial applications,” said Florian Lumperda, Project Manager Operations at deugro Germany.
