On 28 March 2007, the official ground-breaking ceremony for the new ARBURG Customer Centre was held in Lossburg. At the heart of the new building will be a large show room, which offers sufficient space to house the entire machine series. “With this new building, we confirm our strong commitment to Lossburg as our sole production location,” said Michael Hehl, Managing Partner and Spokesperson for the ARBURG Management Team in his welcoming speech.

The new five-storey building with a total useable floorspace of approx. 10,000 square metres is being constructed on the site of the previous administration wing. In addition to a large demonstration room, two administration floors and a representative reception area are planned. The investment in the Customer Centre, which is scheduled for completion by autumn 2008, will amount to an eight-figure sum.

With the dominant design elements of reinforced concrete, glass and steel, the new building not only corresponds to the ARBURG corporate architectural concept, it will also harmoniously extend the existing front. Despite the impressive figure of 60,000 cubic meters of interior space, the new Customer Centre will not rise significantly above the existing main administration building. Overall, the building will even lie significantly behind the maximum possible set-back lines.

The energy supply for the entire building will be assured via geothermal power, a technology which in itself is not new. The innovation lies in the utilisation. Not only the heat will be extracted from the earth, but also the waste heat from the machines will be fed back into the system. The probes for energy harvesting will each be lowered to a depth of 199 meters in 24 bore holes. The building will be heated and cooled via power storage and the extraction of energy from the upper rock strata. Calculations have shown that with this type of energy harvesting, some 600,000 kilowatt hours per year of heating capacity and approximately 400,000 kilowatt hours per year of cooling capacity can be gained.