Finland-headed forest industry and energy technology provider Valmet Oyj has announced that it has signed a three-year automation service agreement with Viridor Ltd for six waste-to-energy plants in the United Kingdom (UK). The agreement covers maintenance and technical support, cybersecurity services, and lifecycle services and upgrades for the plants’ automation systems, helping to ensure the availability and security of the systems also in the future.
Viridor is one of the largest recycling, energy recovery, and waste management companies in the UK. The company has the country’s largest network of 300+ advanced recycling, energy recovery, and landfill diversion facilities providing a full range of services to 150 local authorities and major corporate clients.
These services include recycling and waste advice and auditing, advanced materials recycling, glass, and plastics reprocessing, composting, mechanical and biological treatment, anaerobic digestion, waste to energy, transport, collection, landfill disposal, and habitat restoration and management. In total it safely manages more than 8 million tonnes of recyclables and waste materials for customers from all sectors across the UK.
We have selected Valmet for a new three-year, multi-site service agreement of the distributed control systems within our Energy Recovery Facilities. This is based upon the positive experience we have had with Valmet’s expertise and support across our fleet since the completion of our very first energy from waste plant, said Dave Field, Viridor Director of Engineering (Energy).
Valmet has previously supplied Valmet DNA distributed control systems and services to Viridor’s waste-to-energy plants in Ardley, Beddington, Cardiff, Dunbar, Peterborough, and Runcorn. Now the agreements and services associated with each site have been unified with one service agreement covering all the plants.
Maintenance and technical support, cybersecurity services, and lifecycle services for the plants’ automation systems are covered by the new service agreement. Spare parts and repairs, lifecycle plans, and automation upgrades are carried out additionally by demand.
We have had a positive relationship with Viridor for a long time, and we appreciate their trust in our services and Valmet in general. Our proactive services and response times are highly valued by Viridor as it makes system-related downtime negligible. With this service agreement, Viridor’s automation system will be even better protected and up to date in the future as well, said Samuel Asuming, UK Area Service Manager, Automation, Valmet.
