On 15 November 2018 North America’s first Kompogas® plant was opened in San Luis Obispo. The dry anaerobic digestion plant marks the first DBFOO project for Kanadevia Inova and contributes significantly to California’s sustainability strategy. Governmental representatives were present as well as delegates of the investor and operational companies. The opening ceremony was a great success. Around 130 representatives from various business areas and countries...

Kanadevia Inova is awarded to deliver a second Kompogas® plant in the city of Nanjing. Another project to build two Kompogas® digesters for a biogas plant in Nanjing consolidates Swiss cleantech Kanadevia Inova’s position as the leading supplier of anaerobic dry fermentation technologies in China. Following a similar project in Chongqing, with the signing of a contract to deliver two Kompogas® PF1800 steel digesters to client German...

Kanadevia Inova is to build Scandinavia’s second Kompogas® facility in Jönköping, Sweden. It will use a dry fermentation process to convert around 40,000 metric tons of organic waste a year into fuel for buses and cars, and high-grade fertilizers. The new installation will replace an existing wet fermentation facility, assuring the future of organic waste treatment, renewable fuel production, and jobs in the region. The...

A new energy-from-waste plant is set to be built in Southeast London. Client CORY has once again opted to collaborate with Swiss technology provider Kanadevia Inova. Augmenting the existing Riverside Energy Recovery Facility, the new plant would ultimately handle around 650,000 t/a of municipal solid waste from the UK capital. Swiss clean-tech company Kanadevia Inova and CORY, one of the UK’s leading players in recycling,...

Swiss clean-tech company Kanadevia Inova and its parent company Hitachi Zosen Corporation are to deliver the technology for a Power-to-Gas plant in Japan, which will in future produce synthetic natural gas (Methane) from CO2 and hydrogen. As part of Japan’s efforts to bring about a long-term reduction in its existing CO2 emissions, the country’s first Power-to-Gas plant (PtG) of its kind is to be built...

I am pleased to inform you that Bruno-Frédéric Baudouin (46) will be taking over as CEO of Hitachi Zosen Inova. Mr Baudouin was latterly Operations General Manager for Europe and Africa in the Gas Power Systems division at GE POWER Switzerland. He brings with him many years’ experience in the energy sector, having held a range of managerial positions in Switzerland and abroad, and we...

Kompogas® Building on Success in Perugia Kanadevia Inova to build Italy’s fifth Kompogas® dry anaerobic digestion plant with partner Cesaro Mac Import Kanadevia Inova is to build a new Kompogas® plant in collaboration with its Italian partner Cesaro Mac Import, this already being the fifth such facility in Italy. The plant will process some 40,000 t/a bio waste and 13,500 t/a green waste, producing enough high-quality biomethane...

China’s first Kompogas® plant to be built in world’s largest city The delivery of two Kompogas® digesters for a biogas plant in Chongqing marks the successful entry of Zurich-based Kanadevia Inova into the Chinese market. Kanadevia Inova’s dry anaerobic digestion technology is thus establishing a foothold in a market that offers considerable potential. With the signing of the contract to deliver two PF1800 Kompogas® steel digesters to...

Europe’s largest energy-from-waste plant for municipal solid waste is to be built in Istanbul. The turnkey contract, together with one-year operation has been awarded to the Swiss company Kanadevia Inova together with its Turkish partner Makyol. The plant will process 1 million tonnes of waste per annum generating around 70 MW of electricity. The development of the project to construct an energy-from-waste (WtE) plant in the...