Keppel Seghers Signs Waste to Energy Contract in China

Keppel Seghers has secured a  USD 15.5 million contract to provide technology to a waste-to-energy plant (WTE) in Hangu, Tianjin, China. The contract was awarded by Tianjin Binhai Environmental Industry Development Ltd. Keppel Seghers is a subsidiary of Keppel Integrated Engineering Ltd. (KIE).

Located in Binhai Technical and Economic Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin, the plant will have three incineration lines which will be able to treat 1,500 tons of municipal waste per day combined capacity to generate more than 20 MW of green energy. It is expected to be operational in 2011. Keppel Seghers will provide equipment for the furnace, boiler and flue gas cleaning components of the plant.

Chua Chee Wui, CEO of KIE, said, “Having gained momentum in China’s WTE market as the leader for imported WTE solutions, we are pleased to make further inroads by providing proven, effective green technology for managing waste produced by burgeoning cities in China.”

Latest figures from China’s megacities, like Beijing and Shanghai, show the urgency of China’s waste problem. Just recently, Beijing’s municipal administration commission warned that at the current rate of waste production, Beijing’s 13 landfills will be full in “four to five years.”

KIE is currently the market leader for imported WTE solutions in China, with 60 percent of the domestic market.  

In March of this year, Keppel Seghers was also awarded a contract to provide technology to a WTE plant in Jinan, Shandong by Riseland Holdings, a subsidiary of Everbright International. The plant will be able to treat 2,000 tons of municipal waste per day, making it one of the largest WTE plants in China.

In April this year, Keppel Seghers also secured a contract to build a WTE combined heat-power plant using its own proprietary technology in the Greater Manchester region of the United Kingdom.

In the Middle East, KIE is implementing two contracts from the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning of Qatar for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and operation and maintenance of an integrated solid waste management facility which can treat 2,300 tons of waste per day.

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