About dioxin removal and upswing for GMAB.

Cutting edge: the SYSAV

plant in Malmö

Upswing for

Götaverken Miljö

• “It is with great satisfaction that we can

assignments within our specialist areas, and we

report that our focused efforts and con-

can in partnership with customers supplement

centration on unique products within our

deliveries with incentives - defined during the

core operations - gas cleaning, energy

implementation phase - to find the best solu-

recovery and service - have led to a stable

tion for the end customer.”

Gustafsson underlines their close collabo-

level of profitability and excellent results

ration with Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe for

for the company in 2005,” says Lennart

the development of their patented ADIOX and

Gustafsson, managing director of Göta-

MercOx. This gives Götaverken Miljö AB the

verken Miljö.

sole rights globally to sell and manufacture this

Götaverken Miljö develops, designs and sup-

technology.

plies products and facilities for the cleaning of

environmentally-hazardous emissions, energy

Increased awareness

recovery and cooling generation. The com-

The advantages of the company’s ADIOX tech-

pany offers the unique and leading patented

nology have now also been highlighted in the

ADIOX and MercOx products for the clea-

BAT (Best Available Technologies) Reference

ning of gases containing dioxin and mercury

Document, BREF, for waste incineration and which

as well as carries out consulting and service

is pending a decision at the EU Commission.

assignments in all product areas.

“If it gets the Commission’s blessing, this docu-

The company is located in Göteborg and

ment will provide licensing authorities with

has its origin in the Götaverken companies,

reference material regarding the best available

a large industrial group comprising ship-

technology prior to their making licensing deci-

yards and boiler manufacturing with a his-

sions. This will increase awareness of our tech-

tory dating back to 1841. Götaverken Miljö

nology as well as its positive features,” says

AB was founded in 1988 as a spin-off from

Gustafsson. “Furthermore, we now develop pro-

Götaverken Energy, and has been owned since

grammes which offer our customers permit

1998 by the Sixth AP Fund.

control and analysis of existing ADIOX instal-

lations. This means that we can determine the

Delivery in record time

remaining lifespan of installed ADIOX material

Asked to give examples of recent achieve-

and, in doing so, we can assure the long-term

ments, Gustafsson mentions SYSAV - the

operating safety and economy of the facilities.”

municipal waste disposal company in Malmö.

The MercOx process is also being tested in

“Our contract with SYSAV was to supplement

a new application at one of Europe’s leading

their incineration lines one and two with a

petrochemical companies. “Our hope is that it

common scrubber system for gas cleaning

will be installed permanently during 2006 and,

and energy recovery. The project was com-

thus, will contribute strongly to minimising

pleted in 13 months - solid evidence that

emissions of mercury from this facility.”

our patented and compact scrubber system

Gustafsson says Götaverken Miljö is expected

is highly competitive.”

to become regarded as the most innovative sup-

Gustafsson says that 15 deliveries of their

plier on the Nordic market and to be the pre-

ADIOX technology for dioxin removal were

ferred choice of industrial customers. “We also

made in 2005 so that today it is being used

aim at providing the leading expertise in the

in 40 waste incineration plants throughout

field of dioxin and mercury removal from gases

Europe, the USA and Canada. “During 2005

as well as the servicing of large heat pumps.

we also secured an order to equip waste inci-

Our ADIOX and wet scrubber technology will

neration lines one to four for a major waste

be marketed globally using a network of

disposal plant in Copenhagen worth over

agents/dealers and partners, both for tower

€ 1.1m. This represents the biggest delivery

packing supplies and complete scrubber pack-

to date of ADIOX material to an existing

ages for gas cleaning and dioxin removal.” In

facility.”

this process they are presently working closely

Customers are to be found within energy

with the Swedish Export Council’s Swedentech

production, mainly energy from waste, as

project in order to find such partners on local

well as the processing industry, steel/metal

markets.

and chemicals. “We also carry out consulting

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