DGAP-Media: Double debut for EnviTec Biogas in Wales: First UK biogas plant of EnviTec Biogas produces biogas solely from waste from the food industry
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08.07.2010 15:15
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Lohne, July 8, 2010 - EnviTec Biogas, the European industry leader in the
construction of biogas plants, continues its international expansion. The
company from Lohne, Lower Saxony in Germany, will build its first British
biogas plant in Rogerstone, a district of Newport, Wales, for UK company
InSource Energy. InSource Energy is a specialist developer of on-site
waste-to-energy solutions for the food and drink processing sector and will
draw on EnviTec's expertise in anaerobic digestion for the project, which
is partly funded by the Welsh government. The new plant will be built in
the immediate vicinity of the Rogerstone Park ready-meals factory of RF
Brookes, a subsidiary of UK food giant Premier Foods. It will generate heat
and electricity from the company's food waste.
'The project is a major step forwards in the utilisation of biodegradable
residues,' said a happy John Scott, Managing Director of InSource Energy.
'It is role model for other food and drinks manufacturers on the way
towards a sustainable use of their production waste.' The new biogas plant
will cover up to ten percent of the energy requirements of the Rogerstone
Park factory, thus helping to reduce CO2 emissions by approx. 8500 tons.
The project supports the ambitious plan of Environment Minister Jane
Davidson to make Wales one of the greenest regions in the world. The small
country on the west coast of Great Britain is taking climate protection
seriously and aims to cover its total electricity requirements from local
and renewable sources in 20 years' time at the latest. 'We want to reduce
the use of fossil energy sources by 80 to 90 percent and want to achieve a
comparable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions,' Jane Davidson announced
prior to the cutting of the first sod for the biogas plant in Rogerstone,
to which she had been invited as an honorary guest.
At the same time, Wales aims to increase the waste reuse rates to 70
percent by the year 2025, when only five percent of the total waste should
go into landfills. The country even aims to be totally waste-free by the
year 2050. Biogas plants, which use biodegradable waste to generate heat
and electricity, are indispensable to achieve this ambitious target.
'EnviTec Biogas is a world leader in anaerobic digestion technology with
many plants operating in Europe and elsewhere. We are delighted to be
entering the UK market with this project,' said Roel Slotman, Board member
in charge of international sales at EnviTec Biogas AG.
The construction of the biogas plants is a double debut for EnviTec. The
reference project in Rogerstone, UK, not only marks the company's entry
into a new market but is also the first plant to produce biogas solely from
food waste. The company thus draws on and expands its experience in the
utilisation of waste from the food industry. EnviTec has built numerous
plants around the world which use a very high percentage of food waste. The
Rogerstone project is the first to exploit the full technical potential of
an EnviTec plant and to digest 100% food waste.
About EnviTec Biogas AG
EnviTec Biogas AG covers the entire value chain for the production of
biogas - including the planning and turnkey construction of biogas plants
as well as their commissioning. The company provides the biological and
technical service, and also offers full plant and operating management. In
Güstrow, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, EnviTec
Biogas built the world's largest plant for the production of biogas to
natural gas standards with a thermal output of 55 megawatts. In addition,
the company also operates its own biogas plants. Today, the company is
represented in more than 15 countries throughout Europe, as well as in
India. EnviTec Biogas generated revenues of EUR 120 million and EBIT of EUR
-0.5 million in 2009. The EnviTec Group currently has 385 employees.
EnviTec has been listed on the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange since July 2007.
Company contact:
Thomas Bolte
EnviTec Biogas AG
Tel: +49 25 74 88 88-198
E-mail: t.bolte(at)envitec-biogas.de
Press contact:
Britta Cirkel, Christina Siebels
HOSCHKE&CONSORTEN Public Relations GmbH
Tel: +49 40 36 90 50- 56 /-58
E-mail: b.cirkel(at)hoschke.de; c.siebels(at)hoschke.de
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Language: English
Company: EnviTec Biogas AG
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49393 Lohne
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Internet: www.envitec-biogas.de
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