GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Global Revenue Sources 2008 Revenues
Western Europe 45%
North America 35%
Latin America 6%
Middle East and Africa 6%
Eastern Europe 5%
Asia/Pacific 3%
Infrastructure 39%
Metals 40%
Minerals & Rail 21%
Over 400 locations
50 countries
Approximately 20,000 employees
Total revenue $4 billion
Harsco Corporation 2008 performance profile
The world’s largest access services,rental scaffolding, shoring and forminggroup operating in over 36 countries.
The world’s largest provider of on site, outsourced services to the steel and metals industries, operating at more than163 mills in 33 countries.
Minerals & Rail is a group of specialistbusinesses supplying track technologies,metal recovery processes, industrialabrasives and granules, air-cooled heatexchangers, grating and commercialboilers.
Harsco Infrastructure Harsco Metals Harsco Minerals & Rail
Harsco is committed to serving its customers around the world by providing the vital expertise,support and value they need to excel. Harsco’s core purpose is to build teams that win withintegrity anywhere in the world.
Harsco Infrastructure is a division of one of the world’s leading industrial service
companies, the Harsco Corporation. With over 150 years of experience, including
pioneering roles serving the world’s metals, infrastructure and railway industries,
Harsco today holds first or second market-leadership positions in all its key
services and products.
Its activities at over 400 locations in 50 countries bring Harsco annual revenues in
excess of $3 billion and the corporation is quoted on the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE HSC).
Harsco is committed to continuing to support its customers around the world by
providing the vital expertise and support they need to grow their business.
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Harsco Infrastructure is a newly created combination of three long-established Harsco companies: SGB and Hünnebeck in Europe, the Middleand Far East, and Patent in the Americas. We specialise in access, formwork,
shoring and site support products and services for construction and industrial
maintenance applications.
With a staff of 8,000 professionals and operating subsidiaries in 36 countries, we
are one of the biggest organisations in our sector.
What makes us different however, goes beyond the scale of our activity.
SGB, Hünnebeck and Patent together offer more than three hundredyears of experience in our fields. We have acquired vast reservoirs of expertise on construction sites and industrial facilities around the world. Harsco’s
strategy in bringing the three companies together as Harsco Infrastructure is
designed to pool all these reservoirs of knowledge. By enhancing the way we
share expertise internally, we are exceptionally well placed to cross-transfer ideas
and information, to engineer innovative solutions and to successfully meet the
safety, programming and budgetary criteria on any project.
This is how, in the tough environment of today, we are working harderthan ever to give our customers a real competitive edge; by taking ourinsight, expertise and talent and turning them into effective on site solutions.
We call this ‘Insight onsiteTM’.
It’s a hands-on, can-do technical approach to even the most intricate problem that is enabling us to generate revenue in excess of $1.5 billion a year and to support our customers around the world.
Harsco Infrastructure
Rouchain Dam, France
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‘Insight onsiteTM’: Working together to build success
At Harsco Infrastructure, we believe that our shared knowledge is our greatest asset. It offersin-built advantages to clients around the world in terms of safety, productivity and innovation,all of which can make a critical difference to the success of your project. Your success is oursuccess, so our support for your business will be as focused as it is global.
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Our customers in the construction industry today faceunprecedented challenges. Developments in architecture, changing buildingtrends, increased demands for environmental protection and the ever-present
responsibility for safe working at height now combine with extraordinary pressures
on timetables and budgets.
Every project imposes a different set of specific access demands.We are able to provide optimal solutions because of the uniqueness of our range,
and our expertise in devising the most appropriate combination of access
methods, from traditional scaffolding to the most advanced powered access and
mast climbing work platforms.
Our approach to solving new challenges has kept us at the forefront of our industry for 100 years, constantly evolving better ways ofdoing things and better products for doing them with. Our experience has helped
thousands of clients succeed in new build, restoration or maintenance projects for
commercial and retail developments, historic buildings, airports and rail networks.
From St Paul’s Cathedral in London to the metro station in Moscow, via the NASA
centre in the USA, we offer the expertise to meet the contrasting demands of
history and the avant-garde.
Supporting the construction industrywith access solutions
Brahmsquartier, Germany
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We are able to provide optimal solutions because of the uniqueness of our range, and our expertisein devising the most appropriate combination of access methods.
Nottingham University, UK
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Supporting the construction industrywith formwork and shoring solutions
Boxberg Power Plant, Germany
Zpevnena viaduct, Czech Republic
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We apply the same judgement and experience, accumulated over a century, in developing the most effective products and solutions for concrete forming and shoring on construction and civil engineering projects. We understand the pressures for faster work cycles and the need for constantly improving material quality. We have developed an extensive
range of solutions for wall and slab formwork and support, climbing formwork,
bridge parapet, protective screens and edge protection systems, adaptable to the
specific needs of each project.
Delivering the best solutions on site is the result of co-ordinated teamwork between designers, applications specialists, safety specialists andsite support engineers. Our shared knowledge in Harsco Infrastructure enables us
to tackle the widest range of projects from the latest high-rise residential and
commercial projects in Dubai, to dam construction projects in Uganda, to bridges
for new road networks in Eastern Europe.
We understand the pressures for faster work cycles and the need for constantly improving materialfinishes, whether working on residential, commercial or civil engineering projects.
Dulles International Airport, USA
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Process plants around the world share a common requirement in theneed for safe and efficient access to facilitate construction and ongoingmaintenance. Each plant and facility has its own specialist requirements.
We have built up exceptional insight into the servicing requirements of the oil and
gas industry, and of major process plants, from oil refining at the Shell Pernis
refinery in Holland, and Sabic’s refining and processing plants in Saudi Arabia, to
power generation plants in the USA and Tata’s steel mills in India.
Whether working on the construction of a new plant, routine maintenance or
emergency shutdowns, we develop a bespoke plan for each facility. Drawing on
the widest range of scaffolding and access solutions, we are able to provide work
platforms for construction and maintenance crews that enable maximum
productivity without compromise to safety.
Our belief in the value of planning-based maintenance has also led us to specialise
in a complete range of insulation services such as thermal, acoustic, heat control
and fireproofing. Insulation, access and additional services like corrosion protection
are often part of a multidisciplinary approach.
Harsco Infrastructure teams are often attached to each facility, many of them
working on site on a long term basis.
Supporting the construction and maintenanceof industrial process plants
Corus Redcar Steel Works, UK BASF Plant, Holland
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We work in close partnership with operating management to provide market leading safety andsupport to scheduled maintenance programmes in some of the world’s most challenging situations.
Forties Field, North Sea, UK
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The safety of our colleagues, customers and that of the public, is ourhighest priority. Harsco Infrastructure’s record currently sets the standard forthe industry.
Maintaining this record requires unrelenting efforts in all aspects of risk
management, process control, safety training and safety communication. We are
dedicated to making such efforts part of our culture. Our responsibility is to
exercise safety leadership and maintain a 100% safety-conscious working
environment for all involved.
Working safely is the best way of keeping to budgets and deadlines. We work
closely with you to ensure that clear standards for safety competence, co-operation
and communication are strictly observed throughout the project.
We conduct regular safety reviews, checks and inspections and work proactively
with you on new initiatives, to ensure that, together, we are creating a safe
working environment for all the trades working from or around our equipment.
Harsco Infrastructure runs the industry’s most detailed programme of safety
training for staff and operatives. Training is ongoing at all levels, from toolbox talks
on site, through safety workshops to advanced safety management and leadership
courses. Our safety communication plans include a comprehensive Safety Manual
for managers and supervisors, backed up with product User Guides and safety
notes, a regular in-house safety magazine, and a range of award-winning safety
training and safety behaviour films.
Supporting a safer environment
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Canary Wharf, UK
Harsco Infrastructure’s safety record currently sets the standard for the industry. Our responsibilityis to exercise safety leadership and maintain a 100% safety-conscious working environment for all.
A1(M) Bridge, UK
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InnovationOur specialist engineers and designers cover a range of disciplines and are chosen
for their ability to innovate solutions that both solve / pre-empt problems and save
money for you. Innovations can be formwork or access products, new ways of
using old methods, new applications for existing products, or something completely
radical. Harsco Infrastructure has the global breadth and depth to apply a solution
developed in Prague to a project in Penang, with immediate cost savings and no
‘reinvention of the wheel’.
With 300 years of pooled experience and expertise between us, acquired over a
century representing the most intense technological advances in human history,
we have already found a lot of answers, but more importantly, we have the
ingenuity to come up with new ones. The flexibility of our product range increases
our versatility, and we are adept at finding practical, intelligent solutions from the
simplest to the most complex projects.
Project supportFrom your first call to Harsco Infrastructure, your dedicated local contact will be
working closely with you to establish an accurate and comprehensive
understanding of your short and long term project requirements and priorities.
The team assigned to your project will use sophisticated cost modelling techniques
to give you realistic total cost forecasts and keep potential variations to the plan
and contingencies under firm control.
LogisticsBy devoting meticulous attention to planning, scheduling and logistics, we ensure
the smooth implementation of solutions that are thoroughly safe, demonstrably
cost effective and will make a positive impact on your lead time.
Productivity is something that can always be improved. Innovative solutions, experienced project management and impeccable logistic back-up all make a significant difference. We believe that our kindof focused support will give you the competitive edge today’s industry demands.
Supporting improved productivity
Electricity Pylon, West Thurrock, UK
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The key to optimising productivity on any project is partnering. We believe that our focusedsupport will give you the competitive edge today’s industry demands.
CardioCliniC, Hamburg, Germany
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Project challenges
On 21st January 1890, two trains first
crossed the Forth Rail Bridge, travelling
across two and a half thousand metres
of track suspended nearly fifty metres
above the Firth of Forth. This feat of
engineering remains an iconic
structure and today requires equal
feats of
ingenuity to maintain. The exposed
location, the extraordinary structure,
190 train movements per day and the
busy shipping lane below, make this
famous bridge one of the ultimate
access challenges.
Insight onsiteTM
Scaffolding the bridge starts by reversing the conventional ‘ground-up’ approach.
The evident complexity of the bridge, built with more curves than angles, means
that every scaffolding member has to be individually designed, fabricated and
suspended in position high above the Forth. Access platforms then have to be
encapsulated in plastic sheeting, to prevent old lead paint being shot-blasted into
the environment, and to protect the new, glass flake epoxy paint from the weather
while it dries.
The bridge is well over a hundred years old, but it takes 21st century technology
and expertise to keep it in safe use, making our experience on live industrial
maintenance invaluable. We have already supplied two and a half thousand tonnes
of bespoke steel scaffolding and at least another thousand are anticipated before
the project is complete.
The Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland
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Insight onsiteTM
Our SCF (self-climbing formwork)
platforms were used to build the outer
structure of the 45-storey high- rise,
with its tapering, broadening and
angled slopes. The SCF platforms were
always safely connected to adjoining
vertically climbing platforms by
telescopic and sliding elements.
With a width of 3.25m, our platforms
provided an unusually deep and extra-
safe work platform, designed for a
dynamic load of 5.0kN/m2 (without
formwork). Every individual element
was designed to withstand a maximum
wind speed of 208km/h. The largest
single element used was a platform
14.5m long, supported by only two
brackets, enabling as many as eight
brackets (platform lengths of 55m) to
ascend simultaneously with retracted
formwork.
Combining leading-edge technical
expertise with world class equipment
and project support resulted in La Tour
Granite growing at a rate of one storey
a week. La Société Générale is now
doing business in 70,000m2 of
additional premium space.
Project challenges
Designed by architect Christan de
Portzamparc to represent the ‘prow’ of
a triangular site in Valmy quarter in the
Parisian business district and to link
with the existing twin towers of La
Société Générale, La Tour Granite is
184m tall. The key challenge in building
this icon in the latest generation of
skyscrapers was the façade slope of
eight degrees, designed to minimise
interference with the light and views
from the existing towers.
La Tour Granite, France
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Project challenges
275 architecture firms submitted
tenders for the BMW Welt, and the
jury’s decision was unanimous. The
winning design was by Professor Wolf
D. Prix and the Viennese architecture
firm Coop Himmelb(l)au. Planning and
construction preparations began in
2003, for a unique ‘star-shaped corset’
bearing the load of a 26m tall
double-cone steel structure.
Insight onsiteTM
The traditional approach to a building of
this size and complexity would have
been to use large steel construction
columns and girders, but this would
also have applied extreme individual
loads to foundation slabs, and
unacceptable costs to the client. The
solution developed by Harsco
Infrastructure used the BOSTA® 100
frame scaffold, stabilising each of the
MODEX® props and, with the aid of
integrated lattice girders, ensured that
the total discharged load of 450 tonnes
was evenly distributed over the surface
of the foundation slabs.
In 2008, this multi award-winning
building, completed to budget and on
time, welcomed its one millionth
visitor.
The BMW World Experience and Delivery Centre, Germany
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Project challenges
The Shell Pernis refinery is the largest
in Europe and one of the largest in the
world. More than sixty different plants
with different refining capabilities process
products through pipelines that would
run about four times round the world.
The industrial complex covers a
surface the equivalent of 800 football
fields, making maintenance a massive
and ongoing operation.
Insight onsiteTM
Harsco Infrastructure’s on site team
averages 500 operatives, a figure that
rises to about 750 at peak times.
Planning-based maintenance includes
regular inspections and upgrades of
thermal and acoustic insulation,
fireproofing and heat control for the
miles of pipeline. Between 30 and 50
powered access machines are in use at
any one time, plus 20 telescopic
forklifts and 15 special aviation tow
trucks for transporting materials
around this vast industrial complex.
We have supplied 18,000 tonnes of
scaffolding on site, 97% of which is
constructed using CUPLOK®. This
makes a more effective replacement to
most of the traditional tube and fitting,
being faster to both erect and dismantle.
Shell Pernis Refinery, The Netherlands
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Project challenges
A joint venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco, the Motiva Enterprises refinery
in Port Arthur, Texas, is currently expanding to become the largest in America and
one of the top ten in the world. As part of this project, approximately 53 new
refinery modules are being assembled at Cianbro’s Modular Manufacturing Facility
in Brewer, Maine, each requiring a vast amount of scaffolding to set all the various
pipes and structural beams in place.
With very little continuity in design, as each module is different from the next,
there is only one-eighth of an inch margin for error as all structural, piping and
functional elements have to fit precisely. The harsh winters in Maine add to the
challenges of working outside at this scale. Finally, after each module is completed,
they travel by barge from Maine, around the Florida coast and then west to Texas.
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arriving in Port Arthur, the modules are assembled together to form the refinery.
Insight onsiteTM
Harsco Infrastructure’s own QES®
scaffold system was chosen for its
high levels of adaptability, which
m e a n s
different lengths and heights can be
accommodated without interruption,
and projected levels of productivity
can be maintained. Scaffolding
specifications for this vast and complex
project have, to date, drawn on 90% of
the component range. During winter
assembly, some modules were
wrapped in more scaffolding and
plastic sheeting to provide shelter from
the weather. The first four modules
were shipped to Texas on 26th March
2009. This mega-project will increase
the refinery’s current capacity of
275,000 barrels per day to more than
600,000 barrels per day.
Port Arthur Refinery, USA
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Project challenges
The Hollywood and Vine project is
a 4.5 acre mixed-use development in
the City of Los Angeles, located at the
world-famous intersection of
Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.
The $600 million development includes
luxury apartments, upscale retail space
and the W hotel. Harsco Infrastructure
was awarded the complete horizontal
formwork package which included over
two million square feet of elevated
deck ranging from 8’ to 40’ high.
Insight onsiteTM
Challenges on this project included fast
track work by both our design and
operations teams, involving 135 deck
pours, designed, stamped, formed and
poured in less than 12 months.
Because of the fast track requirement,
the contractor chose to use our
PRO-SHORE® system along with our
aluminum frame and beam system for
the high areas. The complete package
was delivered on budget and on
time. Over 166 truck loads of shoring
equipment were delivered, including
11,000 PRO-DECK® panels and 12,000
PRO-SHORE® posts. Three Harsco
Infrastructure engineers worked full
time for 11 months, and our Stamping
Engineer oversaw the production of
150 sheets of equipment layouts and
shoring design work.
Hollywood and Vine, USA
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Project challenges
Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport,
United Arab Emirates is one of the
world’s largest airport terminals, built as
part of a $4.1 billion expansion
programme to increase the airport’s
capacity to 70 million passengers per
year. The 1km long terminal building has
a curved steel roof over a complex
concrete frame and a substructure which
accommodates arrival and departure
halls, lounges, restaurants and parking.
The huge basement area was constructed
in an excavation 800m long, 700m wide
and 20m deep. The arrangement of floors
includes varying ceiling heights and open
voids making the construction of the
concrete structure complex to design,
plan and programme. The upper slab also
forms part of the aircraft apron and
therefore has to support the weight of
waiting planes.
Insight onsiteTM
Harsco Infrastructure worked with main contractor Al-Naboodah – JV to design and
develop a forming and shoring solution to meet the unusually tight project deadline.
The scale of the job was considerable involving the construction of over
1,000,000m2 of floor slab with thicknesses of up to 2.2m and ceiling heights of up
to 16m. Our GASS® aluminium shoring system was selected as the most
appropriate, cost-effective solution. GASS® is one of the most sophisticated
systems of its type, used on many of the worlds largest and most complex projects.
Over a 30 month period, Harsco supplied over 5,000 tonnes of GASS® and ancillary
products to the site.
Using the company’s experience on similar major international airport projects, a
specialist team of falsework designers were based with the main contractor on site
– supported by close management involvement from the UK. At the peak of the
project, our designers were producing over 300 drawings per month.
Dubai International Airport, UAE
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