Ningbo, China, 2 November 2017
Ningbo, China 25.08.2017 – ARCHEA New Energy GmbH, a full-service provider of biogas plants, hereby announces that it has concluded a licensing agreement with the Kaseen group from Ningbo and, as part of this partnership, is supplying its first biogas plants for China to process 200,000 tonnes of organic waste.
Kaseen (www.kaseen.com) has been operating as a waste disposal company for 10 years and collects food scraps, out-of-date food and restaurant waste using its own refuse collection vehicles. Kaseen has also been operating two biogas plants of its own for several years and has developed its own products for waste pre-treatment.
ARCHEA and Kaseen signed a long-term cooperation agreement in Ningbo on 25.08. and immediately began planning the plants in Cixi and Ningbo. Both plants are scheduled to become operational in approximately 8 months.
ARCHEA's design uses a combination of mechanical and biological processes (MTB) to first separate organic waste cleanly from inorganic waste. While the latter is sent for recycling, ARCHEA's plant technology enables the conversion of biological residues into valuable end products such as biomethane, providing an environmentally sustainable energy source at a decentralised level. The electricity generated from part of the biogas in a combined heat and power unit is in turn used to meet the electricity requirements of the entire plant. Surplus electricity is fed into the grid.
The use of computer-controlled equipment allows a wide variety of input materials to be processed while maintaining high safety standards for employees.
Oliver Nacke, founder and Managing Director of ARCHEA, sees this flagship project as confirmation of his company's approach: developing decentralised solutions outside Europe to address the specific challenges faced by municipalities, with the involvement of local people, policymakers and businesses.
Following its plants in India, Brazil and Argentina, ARCHEA has achieved another milestone by entering the Chinese market.
Oliver Nacke is confident of success because his partner Kaseen comes from the waste management industry and already operates two biogas plants.
Above all, this success is thanks to the commitment of its partner Vidras, Deventer www.vidrasgroup.com, and its employees. Vidras has been ARCHEA's process engineering partner in waste treatment for many years. Together, they have developed solutions for the mechanical-biological treatment of waste.
Kaseen founder and owner Mr Zhu began looking for a partner almost two years ago with the help of China Inroads and found one in ARCHEA. In particular, ARCHEA's dry digester is the ideal technology for processing Chinese waste.