Japan-headed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC) has announced that it has received an order from Kawasaki City (Kanagawa Prefecture) to build its Tachibana Waste to Energy (WtE) Plant, a municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant in Kawasaki's Takatsu District. The order is a joint venture project with engineering and civil construction company Taisei Corporation.
The Tachibana WtE Plant had operated for around 40 years, but the facilities have aged and the incineration plant ceased operations in March 2015 and subsequently closed in 2016. The current facilities will be dismantled and removed, and construction will begin on the new facility.
The new MSW incineration plant will comprise three stoker type incinerators, each with a capacity of 200 tonnes per day (tpd), as well as other related equipment to reach a total waste treatment capacity of 600 tpd. The order is valued at JPY29.8 billion (≈ US$279 million) and completion is scheduled for September 2023.
MHIEC acquired MHI’s waste treatment plant business in 2008, incorporating MHI’s environmental protection systems technology, as well as its broad expertise in the construction and operation of waste management facilities in Japan and overseas.
