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Buschjost sponsors school and college projects:
Support for technology students
 
Students create their fully automatic juice mixing and dispensing machine using Buschjost valves.
The promotion of young talent is a high priority at Buschjost Norgren GmbH + Co. KG. Today's schoolchildren and students are tomorrow's potential new company employees. Buschjost takes its role as one of the leading companies in fluid technology very seriously, even on a national scale: "Quite simply, it is part of our responsibility to society that we provide support when young people are interested in technology," explains Managing Director Michael Preinerstorfer. Therefore Buschjost has donated valves for projects on a number of occasions.
Currently Buschjost is taking part in project work in process and production automisation for students seeking to become state-certified automisation technology engineers at the vocational education college BBS 1 in Mainz. This project centres on a fully automatic juice mixing and dispensing machine, which is intended mix and dispense juice taking into account the relevant food preparation regulations. The machine operates with three valves donated by Buschjost. The students decided to use a touch panel for juice selection, which allows the juices to be chosen and combined optically. The dispensing process is accompanied by the effects of a smoke machine, a soap bubble blower and lighting, which lend the machine a certain flamboyance. The complete project will be presented at the automisation technology college's open day in February.
Another project in which Buschjost played a part was a solar water tower for "Das Fest" in Karlsruhe. The event was a festival with various music and theatre stages organised by the Karlsruhe City Youth Committee. A heat wave generally arrives every year in Karlsruhe in time for the festival. The need to cool off is therefore very great. The tower, which was created by a project team from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, was designed to bring together the two factors of fun and keeping cool. It consisted of a simple scaffold with an attached photovoltaic system to generate electricity and motion detectors to control the water features. Festival visitors had to move to try to activate the water features and be cooled down by them afterwards. The water features were controlled by 16 donated Buschjost valves.
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17.02.2009 |
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