Production Facility

Estrella production facilities are headquartered in Ettingen, Switzerland. Our location nearby Basel, Switzerland ensures ideal conditions for logistics, quality, and supporting infrastructure.

Two separate production lines, namely piping (40,000 parts/year) and large Apparatus (400 pressure vessels/year) are completely independent from each other in terms of equipment and qualified personnel. Our production equipment represents the latest state of the art technology:

Manufacturing devices for producing our own enamel

• enamel melting equipment for 30T/year
• slurry production with 4 ball mills for preparing 12 kind of different slurries
• research laboratory with test furnaces and devices for 100% testing of the glass production and development of new glasses

Manufacturing devices for piping production

• Computerized turntables with robotic feeds
• Automatic drilling machines
• Automated Welders for:
  Full wire
  Core welds
  Submerged arc welding
• automatic metal saws
• 4 horizontal Furnaces with 200 to 400 kW power for pipes up to 10 ft. length
• 2 blasting plants

Manufacturing Equipment

• Automated Welders for:
  Full wire
  Core welds
  Submerged arc welding
• Cylinder rolling machine for Plates up to 30mm thickness and 3 meter width
• Warm extruding device up to 600mm Nozzles on 30 mm plates
• Numeric gas cutting machine with 4 Heads
• Chamfering machines for weld preparation
• 1 blasting plant
• 1 vertical Furnace 2000 KW (for lining items up to 4.5meter L) + 1 vertical Furnace 1500 KW in planning
• 5 cranes (5t – 25t)
• 28 heat resistant firing devices enabling tolerances that are twice as good as DIN norms.