Hungary: Lafarge Cement Hungary plans to spend Euro6.2m on an upgrade at its integrated Kiralyegyháza plant. The investment will be used to increase its alternative fuels substitution rate to 80% from 60% at present, according to MTI. The unit’s CO2, emissions will also be reduced by 10%. The upgrade will start in late 2019 with expansion of the plant’s alternative fuels storage capacity planned for the first half of 2020.
Geminor opens waste management office in Poland
Poland: Norway’s Geminor has opened a new national office in Sopot and appointed Andrzej Zientarski as Country Manager. Kjetil Vikingstad, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Geminor, says that the resource management company’s presence in Poland comes as a response to the ‘booming waste market.’ Although company is focusing on recycled waste wood the territory is also seeing a growing energy recovery sector in Poland, and it has numerous refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and solid recovered fuel (SRF) projects underway.
Kuwait Cement Company seeks clearence to burn municipal waste at Shuaiba plant
Kuwait: Meshal Al-Rashed, the executive vice-chairman of Kuwait Cement Company, has asked that the government consider its request to use alternative fuels at its Shuaiba integrated plant, according to the Arab Times newspaper. It wants to co-process municipal waste at the unit.
Geminor agrees backload waste transport deal with MSC
UK/Ireland: Geminor says it has been engaged in a partnership with MSC transporting refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and solid-recovered fuel (SRF) from the UK and Ireland since February 2019. The first shipments were transported from Barking and Nottingham, UK to Aalborg, Denmark. This will be followed up by container shipments from Birmingham, UK to Habberstad, Sweden and Dublin, Ireland to Greece. The shipments are based on so-called ‘backload,’ where empty containers are used to reduce the price.
“Moving waste from the UK to Scandinavia can also be completed with trailers, but we will continue to use containers where this is the best option. Currently we are moving containers with RDF and SRF from Dublin to Greece and Spain, where container shipment is a more efficient way of transport,” said Oliver Caunce, Senior Account Manager at Geminor UK.