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Four energy-from-waste plants are to be constructed in Moscow Region. A consortium consisting of the Swiss clean-tech firm Hitachi Zosen Inova and the Russian technology company ZiO-Podolsk was awarded the contract by the client, the Russian operating company Alternative Generating Company. The plants will make a substantial contribution toward reducing the number of landfill sites by treating the residual waste of around 5 million inhabitants,...

Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan GmbH (HZI BioMethan) has been awarded the contract to build another biogas and biomethane production facility in France. The plant, which will be custom-designed to the needs of the client, is the first in a series of eight projects to be delivered by HZI BioMethan over the next year with project developer Artaim Conseil. The Herpy-l’Arlésienne facility, around 30 kilometers northwest of...

Hitachi Zosen Inova has handed over the energy-from-waste plant in Edinburgh to the client. Featuring state-of-the-art WtE technology from HZI, the installation will supply around 32,000 households with electricity.   On 18 April 2019, Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) handed over the Waste to Energy (WtE) plant in Millerhill (Edinburgh) to the client, FCC E&M Ltd., a subsidiary of FCC Environment Ltd. After 31 months of construction, the...

On 16 April 2019 Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) and PJSC ZiO-Podolsk, a subsidiary of Atomenergomash (Russia) signed a Consortium Agreement for the cooperation in the construction of four Waste to Energy (WtE) plants in the Moscow region. HZI will act as technology supplier within the consortium, whereas PJSC ZiO-Podolsk delivers manufacturing services of the power island equipment for the WtE plants. Anatoly Smirnov, General Director at...

Rookery South Limited have awarded the contract to construct England’s latest WtE plant to the Swiss company Hitachi Zosen Inova, building on successful collaboration forged in earlier projects. In the future, the Rookery South plant will process 545,000 metric tons of solid municipal and commercial waste a year to generate more than 60 MW of electricity for the national grid. The signing of the contract...

After just less than two years of construction, Hitachi Zosen Inova handed over the new Kompogas® plant in Högbytorp, Sweden, to E.ON Biofor Sverige AB. The instal-lation will process the region’s organic waste to generate high-grade biomethane, compost, and liquid fertilizer. On the same day as launching the project to build a Kompogas® plant in Jönköping on 1 March, Swiss-based Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has now...

A new Kompogas® plant, due for completion in 2020, is to be built in the Swedish city of Jönköping by Hitachi Zosen Inova. The company also financed, developed and designed the whole project and, additionally will own and operate the facility. The installation will make a substantial contribution to efforts to decarbonise the country by processing organic waste to produce biofuel for carbon-free transportation and...

Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan GmbH (HZI BioMethan) has been awarded the contract to build a biogas upgrading plant including the in-house gas scrubber and a desulphurisation and VOC filter system as part of a biogas project in Aberdeen. The installation is part of the city’s new energy center and will be the first to feature the company’s new membrane system. It is scheduled for commissioning...

Following the agreement between Sweden’s Jönköping Municipality and Hitachi Zosen Inova AG (HZI) in spring 2018, HZI has acquired Jönköping’s biogas operations, Jönköping Energi Biogas AB, on February 1st, 2019. The company will be renamed to HZI Biogas Operations AB but continues to process local kitchen and food waste in its existing wet fermentation facility. Also the biogas produced will be further upgraded and used...