Nearly all fireworks firing in Denmark in the new year, are being stored at the disused airfield in Conversation between Vejle and Billund.
In the autumn run up to 400 large, forty-foot chinese shipping containers through the ports of Aarhus and Hamburg have been driven to the former military area. Here they are piled in high stacks on the huge, fenced area.
A large part of the powder will subsequently be distributed and stored behind the thick concrete walls of the old NATO-hangars, which still stands fully intact in flyvestationen.
Many krudtfirmaer have rented one or more hangars to be sure that the batteries, rockets and bomberør are safe behind lock and key, until nytårskrudtet must be fired of to and with 1. January.
Alone in north importer, Fyrværkerieksperten with headquarters in Thisted, denmark, accounting for about 17,000 cubic meters, which will be located at the company’s place in the Conversation, telling the Danish Industry.
This corresponds to 250 containers. In addition about 125 other containers – for example, from a second storimportør, T. Hansen.
But even if in these days svirrer with requirements on prohibition because of afskydningerne in Nørrebro, sees the industry positive development in sales from year to year.
– There is more time in sales than I bargained for, says the east jutland display Henning Petersen, Fyrværkerigården in Vejle.
– I will believe we are going to increase by ten percent this year, as last year.
He estimates that the company in the year turnover up to 15 tonnes of fireworks.
In the following the Danish safety technology authority buys the danes in the year the fireworks display in the region of eur 415 million. crowns. To this must be added the unknown quantities of illegally imported fireworks.
