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This recovery took place in one of the few remaining factories not destroyed by the explosions and subsequent fires. All the CNC machinery was contaminated with water and concrete dust and required full disassembly to enable the necessary decontamination and repairs to be performed. The scale of the incident was enormous with approximately 350 buildings, including both private homes and businesses, destroyed or damaged. A security cordon was placed around the area after approximately 2000 people were evacuated to a safe zone. According to the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, one of the explosions was equivalent to magnitude-2 earthquake. Whilst fully experienced with the removal of smoke and water deposits, it is not often that AREPA engineers are called on to remove lumps of concrete, which had been thrown over 200m, from control cabinets and machines. One engineer remarked "It was like working in a war zone, there was destruction everywhere you looked”. Working in close cooperation with the client and the machine manufacturers, AREPA were able to return the equipment to production within 3 weeks. Loss Adjuster Finn Maron from the Insurer Top Danmark commented that he was very impressed that it was possible to do the work in such a relatively short time. The Manufacturers, Mazak, were particularly impressed with the procedures used by AREPA for cleaning of electronic items. They informed us that they have seen many methods, but the AREPA method is the only one which works. It is a tribute to the skills of the AREPA and manufacturers engineers that recovery of these items was possible. |
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