Rehlko, previously Kohler Vitality, has accomplished the multi-million-dollar growth of its manufacturing web site at its Brest plant in Brittany, France. Initiated in 2021, the funding has helped enhance manufacturing, storage, and transport capability, assembly the quickly growing demand for mills within the information heart market. This undertaking builds on the profitable growth of the North American manufacturing facility in Mosel, Wisconsin, accomplished in 2022. The brand new growth additional strengthens our dedication to assembly our prospects’ wants worldwide.
Over the previous three years, the 42,800 m² Brest web site has seen important enhancements to assist expanded manufacturing and logistical services – growing the variety of giant mills it produces every year, whereas additionally introducing a brand new vary of walk-in enclosures to deal with >4,000 kW mills in out of doors environments.
With the completion of the latest improve, which incorporates the set up of two 1,250 m² steel industrial buildings in a newly developed out of doors space, measuring 4,000 m², Rehlko has been capable of enhance manufacturing capability, in addition to develop the quantity of storage for upstream and downstream merchandise.
“The completion of our multi-million-dollar growth at our plant in Brest is a significant milestone in our ongoing dedication to enhance manufacturing effectivity for each our group and our prospects,” commented Lenaik Andrieux, Basic Supervisor of Energy Programs EMEA & India, at Rehlko. “The work of the previous three years will assist to satisfy the challenges of tomorrow, boosting our capabilities to satisfy the evolving wants of the markets we work with.”
Section one of many growth came about in 2021 and noticed the docking areas enlarged as a way to accommodate bigger mills for transport. This was adopted by elevated manufacturing, check, and warehouse ground area in addition to further enhancements to dealing with areas with new gantries, cranes and dock infrastructure together with autonomous transporters to assist higher-capacity cargo by sea.
“Along with the modifications to the bodily footprint of the Brest web site, we’ve additionally been bettering the sustainability of our operations with a change to testing completely utilizing HVO fuels – that means prospects could be relaxation assured that we’re aiming to cut back the carbon emissions of their gensets from the very begin of manufacturing,” continued Andrieux. “Our check services are commissioned to finest meet the necessities of consumers within the information heart markets, together with 20 MVA of resistive/inductive load banks.”
Additional developments are anticipated to assist the corporate’s ongoing dedication to streamlining manufacturing operations together with a one-way lane for vehicles and automobiles and a brand new web site exit, serving to to safe improved highway and pedestrian flows on web site.
On September seventeenth, Kohler Vitality has been formally rebranded Rehlko, marking a significant milestone within the firm’s 100-plus-year historical past delivering progressive, resilient vitality options that present independence, agility, and safety to mission-critical infrastructure, services and residences. Rehlko continues to function as an impartial enterprise.
