Piller Partners with GIG Karasek for World’s Most Powerful Heat Pump System

Landmark Project Piller Partners with GIG Karasek for World’s Most Powerful Heat Pump System

2025-04-07 Source: Press release Piller 1 min Reading Time

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Piller Blowers & Compressors and GIG Karasek will combine their expertise for an innovative BASF project at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The project will feature the world’s most powerful heat pump system.

From right to left: Andreas Schnitzhofer, Managing Director of GIG Karasek and Christoph Böhnisch, Managing Director of Piller Blowers & Compressors. (Source: Piller) — From right to left: Andreas Schnitzhofer, Managing Director of GIG Karasek and Christoph Böhnisch, Managing Director of Piller Blowers & Compressors.
(Source: Piller)

Moringen/Germany – As the EPC contractor and technology provider, GIG Karasek is delivering the world’s most powerful industrial heat pump system for BASF’s Ludwigshafen site. Piller is supplying the 11 blowers, which are connected in series as part of the steam compression system and serve as the central element of GIG Karasek’s innovative Comprivap technology. The system demands maximum blower performance and will achieve an impressive thermal output of up to 50 MWth.

Andreas Schnitzhofer, Managing Director of GIG Karasek, explains: “We chose Piller because of its many years of experience in blower and compressor technology, and we regard Piller as a top-class supplier for our large-scale Comprivap system. We are combining our expertise and experience to accelerate industrial transformation using forward-thinking, energy-efficient solutions – for maximum performance and sustainability in heat pump technology.”

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Christoph Böhnisch, Managing Director of Piller, adds: “We are proud to be part of this pioneering project. We are especially pleased that our globally recognized expertise is now being applied in Germany for the first time, in close collaboration with GIG Karasek and BASF at the Ludwigshafen site. With our specially developed Vapoline product line, we are strengthening our position as a technology leader in vapor (re-) compression.”

Visualization of the Comprivap plant featuring an 11-stage compressor system from Piller. (Source: © GIG Karasek) — Visualization of the Comprivap plant featuring an 11-stage compressor system from Piller.
(Source: © GIG Karasek)

The goal of the project is to convert the steam supply at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site to a sustainable, CO2-free production process. This investment will allow BASF to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions currently generated during the production of formic acid by 98 percent.

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