CASE STUDY
KARL LEUPOLD GMBH
METALLVERARBEITUNGSMASCHINEN
PROJECT SCOPE & CHALLENGES
1
The building
The building: a metal construction company – originally an old smithy from anno 18something, which had grown more and more over the years and occupied the ground floor and basement in/under three old residential buildings between Fürther Stadtpark and Hauptstraße.
2
The access
Bricked round archways, which made an access possible maximally for Sprinter – however in the factory behind it among other things the following machines had to be used: CNC processing centers, classical metalworking machines, a 10to boring mill from the 80‘s, a 26to table boring mill from the 70‘s, as well as a 8m long lathe from the 60‘s (for which insertion in the 60‘s walls were round hewn and knocked out).
3
The buyers
For the modern machines buyers were found in the metalworking industry in the area, the 10to boring mill went to a young entrepreneur in the Black Forest area agricultural machinery, the 26to boring mill was shipped by the buyer to India.
4
The masterly performance
During the removal of the largest CNC machine, 3m of machine had to be brought exactly and without tilting through a gate which was only 0.8cm wider than the machine and only 14cm higher.
5
The road traffic of the inner city area
In total there were 12x heavy transporters/low loaders in the way of the city traffic and the city buses. However, most bus drivers always greeted our colleagues in a friendly manner.
6
The entertainment
No day passed without interested spectators.
7
Recycling instead of disposal
FOCUS: it would have been easier to cut up the machines and transport the steel
away as scrap steel.
