News & Events Archive

HZI Germany, which is based in Cologne and specialises in engineering, and HZI Kraftwerkstechnik, which is based in Braschwitz and specialises in overhauls, are merging at the beginning of October.

Under the leadership of Sebastian Nikolaus, Hitachi Zosen KRB in Buchs (Canton St Gallen) is to be the central service site for all Swiss customers of the Hitachi Zosen Inova Group. The service activities of KRB will be expanded to include all services of the HZI group.

The English industrial city is bringing sustainable waste management a step forward

The realisation of one of the world's largest EfW plants achieves another important Milestone.

Plant engineering and service company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has announced an innovation for the revision of reciprocating grates for Energy from Waste plants.

On 18 January 2021 Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) and Aker Carbon Capture (ACC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore ways of accelerating carbon capture in the Energy from Waste (EfW) industry in Europe.

New turnkey plant will be one of the most energy-efficient Energy from Waste facilities in the world.

HZI’s new Operations Director will bring a wealth of operational experience in Energy from Waste to give the green-tech company even greater industry …

Hitachi Zosen Inova Kraftwerkstechnik successfully completed challenging revision work for the waste treatment company AVG Köln, replacing superheaters five and six on all four lines of the Energy from Waste plant in Cologne.

HZI and SSE Thermal to realise their third joint project in the UK.

On 1 November 2020 Carsten Stölting has taken over the role as Managing Director of Hitachi Zosen Inova Deutschland. He succeeds Berthold Büttenbender, who led the company for six years.

Hitachi Zosen Inova has been selected to supply and install its rotary kiln boiler technology to the Vantaa Energy’s high-temperature incineration plant treating hazardous waste.

Fortum Glasgow Ltd has appointed Hitachi Zosen Inova Steinmüller to design, build and commission the grate and boiler for a new thermal waste treatment facility in Glasgow, Scotland. Once operational, the new facility will generate up to 45 MWe gross of electricity by processing up to 350,000 tonnes of residual waste each year.

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Indaver has appointed global green-tech company Hitachi Zosen Inova as its EPC contractor for the Rivenhall Integrated Waste Management Facility and Energy Centre project in Essex, United Kingdom.

Hitachi Zosen Inova and the Aarau-Lenzburg Regional Waste Disposal Association will produce hydrogen at the Waste to Energy plant in Buchs (canton of Aargau).

North London Waste Authority has awarded a milestone EPC contract to ACCIONA, with Hitachi Zosen Inova providing the ‘chute to stack’ technologies for a new 700,000 t/a Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at the Edmonton EcoPark, north London. 

Hitachi Zosen Inova and CO2 Capsol AS have signed a memorandum of understanding to implement a hot potassium carbonate CO2 separation process for energy-from-waste plants.  This adds a third solution to HZI’s portfolio of CO2 separation technologies. 

After less than three years of construction, the Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility has successfully completed its commissioning phase and has been handed over to the operator, Covanta, within the original contractually agreed schedule. The facility will handle over 545,000 t/a of non-recyclable residual waste and generate more than 60 MW of electricity. It will also enable a reduction in CO2 emissions and the recovery of large quantities of metals compared with ongoing landfilling.

Stephen Jones will support HZI’s strategy and positioning as a key player in the global energy market.

Hitachi Zosen Inova has been awarded another contract to deliver a gas upgrading unit to Denmark. The client is a farmer from Gråsten in the south of the country who is upgrading his existing biogas plant to generate energy more flexibly in response to market demand. Besides using the biogas to generate electricity, the installation will also use membrane technology to upgrade it to biogas-based natural gas that can be fed into the regional gas grid.

Starting in 2024, the new Kompogas® plant being built by Hitachi Zosen Inova on behalf of the German company Eggersmann Anlagen Concept for the Wielkopolskie Centrum Recyklingu waste incineration plant in Jarocin will treat around 15,000 tonnes of household organic and green waste a year to produce renewable energy and fertiliser.

German biogas producer Bioenergie Geest GmbH & Co. KG and Swiss greentech firm Hitachi Zosen Inova have established a company in Apensen, Germany, which will construct an installation producing 2,100 tonnes of bio-LNG from sustainably generated biogas annually by the end of 2023.

Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan GmbH, Zeven, on behalf of VERBIO AG, is taking on the construction of a biomethane gas upgrading unit at VERBIO’s site in Zörbig, Germany. The biomethane produced by VERBIO will in future be liquefied in a bioLNG installation and marketed as vehicle fuel.

HZI und energielenker gründen Firma zur Produktion von Bio-LNG aus nachhaltig erzeugtem Biogas. Der grüne Treibstoff und die THG-Quoten werden auf dem deutschen Treibstoffmarkt verkauft.

Officials with WTE LLC and Hitachi Zosen Inova USA LLC announced the construction of a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility that will generate approximately 120,000 MMBTUs of this negative carbon fuel from a Colorado dairy and deliver it to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) market.

The Power to Gas plant with biological methanation in Dietikon, Zurich, has been producing green gas from wastewater and waste since March this year.

Hitachi Zosen Inova and the Aarau-Lenzburg Regional Waste Disposal Association will produce hydrogen at the Waste to Energy plant in Buchs (canton of Aargau).

The production of biomethane from dairy livestock residues will accelerate Net Zero ambitions in the United States.

Stephen Jones will support HZI’s strategy and positioning as a key player in the global energy market.