Basalt Solu­tions

Sus­tain­able and robust alter­na­tive sought

The cus­tomer had already test­ed all the plas­tic solu­tions avail­able on the mar­ket at that time, and all stud­ies with the plas­tic alter­na­tive had already been ini­ti­at­ed. Now Jaeger Mar­itime Solu­tions GmbH has to prove that a solu­tion made of the nat­ur­al mate­r­i­al basalt is as robust as the plas­tic alter­na­tive. Just like the plas­tic ver­sion that has been used up to now, the con­struc­tion is to have a sin­gle-point sus­pen­sion for easy han­dling.
While the experts of the Jäger Group are work­ing on the devel­op­ment of the new prod­uct, the cus­tomer has to learn which changes in work­ing meth­ods are nec­es­sary with the basalt prod­uct com­pared to the plas­tic net.

The customer‘s require­ments are high, the net made of basalt fiber must be able to with­stand being lift­ed, low­ered and stacked safe­ly 15 times. Ini­tial­ly, the first pro­to­type can­not sus­tain these lift­ing cycles, and dur­ing the stack­ing test with five nets on top of each oth­er, the high load of 32 tons of rock on the low­est net can­not be per­ma­nent­ly main­tained, so the Jäger devel­op­ers opti­mize the design and mate­r­i­al as well as the process. Fur­ther rein­force­ments with­in the prod­uct, a mod­i­fied sus­pen­sion and an opti­mized fill­ing process final­ly led to the desired result on both sides.