20-Nov-2009 - Crossing The River Oder At Swinemünde |
Over the past weeks Europoles has installed two truly giant masts in Swinemünde
Harbour, on the island of Usedom near the Baltic Sea coast. The solution for an overhead powertransmission line was challenging: to cross the Swina (the estuary of the River Oder into the Baltic Sea), we are talking about a span of 477 metres!
The solution has been implemented, in the form of two 100-metre pylons as tower structures, and two smaller angular anchor pylons on the bank of the Swina.
The extreme height of the supporting poles was necessary to allow
ships 65 metres high to pass without nearing the overhead lines. These red-and-white giants are a colourful accent in the concrete jungle of
the port, and are clearly visible from the Harbour Promenade and the Baltic Sea and municipal ferries.
Any reader who would like to see more about the assembly of the masts can look at a film clip in the Polish Europoles blog at www.europoles.blog.pl |
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Europoles
As market leader in Europe, Europoles – at its plant locations in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and in Oman – produces poles, towers and columns made of high-strength spun concrete, steel, and fibreglass-reinforced plastic for an extensive variety of applications. Its far-reaching portfolio of products and services range from 3-metre light poles and 20- to 50-metre advertising, transmission, and floodlight poles, to 100-metre towers for telecommunications. With these offerings and about 850 employees, Europoles achieved in 2009 annual sales in Germany and surrounding regions of 120 million euros. Europoles is a company of VTC Industrieholding GmbH, a diversified Mittelstand industrial group from Munich, Germany.
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Compared to this supporting mast (exactly 99.4 metres tall), the buildings and ships round about look like miniatures.
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