Activities
Regional Markets
Serving regional markets from northern Germany over the UK to northern France, including the greater Hamburg, London, Lille and Paris area and the Low Countries, DEME Building Materials (DBM) is working a truly European theatre. Its workhorse is the specially designed 5.000 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger “Charlemagne”, whose name refers to this European vocation as well.
On an average year, Charlemagne dredges some 2 million m3 of sea aggregates from concession sites in the North Sea and the English Channel. Activities include winning, washing, drying, grading, processing and marketing sand and gravel according to requirements of the construction industry.
In Hamburg, DBM operates under the name of OAM-DEME, managing a high-tech treatment plant at the Afrika terminal. On dredging areas some 45 to 50 miles off the North German coast, the fully owned subsidiary of DBM has obtained exclusive rights to win marine gravel on the Weissebank for a period of 40 years.
In the Sloehaven at Flushing, the Netherlands, DBM BV has constructed the largest marine aggregate terminal in Europe. It includes mooring facilities, a (dis)charging conveyor belt, an 80.000 tons stockpile area, and a sand wash and gravel treatment installation.
In France, DBM is partnering with a local company, Eurovia, for winning sand and gravel off Le Havre and Dieppe in Normandy. In addition, DBM operates under the name of CBD three depots for construction aggregates in Dunkirk, Béthune and Santes - supplying graded marine aggregates to the construction industry in northern France, from Lille to Paris.
