Germany-headed "biogas all-rounder" EnviTec Biogas AG has announced that it has held an official opening of a new production building at its Saerbeck site. With the expansion, the company has doubled the production capacity of its EnviThan biogas upgrading plant units.
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In the newly inaugurated building, up to six more EnviThan units can be manufactured simultaneously in addition to the six existing manufacturing bays.
With a doubling of our production capacity and total usable space to 2 100 square metres on our 5 000 sqm site, we’re now in a position where we can meet the needs for gas upgrading plants worldwide even faster, commented Jürgen Tenbrink, Chief Technical Officer at EnviTec during the opening ceremony.
This step towards a new and larger manufacturing operation is based on “healthy developments in the innovative EnviThan gas upgrading technology.
The technical systems fit-outs for our first containers were completed in Gelsenkirchen, at our then-partner A3. In 2014, roughly ten years ago, we moved our container production to its current site in Saerbeck. In just the first five years up until 2019, we produced 100 containers for gas upgrading, oxygen generation, and gas feed-in, and shipped them out for their respective applications, Jürgen Tenbrink said.
That number has since grown to 250 containers.
Helping to meet local climate targets in Saerbeck
After a construction period lasting just ten months, production of the first container got underway in December 2022, which according to Tenbrink was impressive, given the ongoing problems facing the construction and construction materials sector.
The new production building is heated by a heat pump operated with green solar PV power.
Intelligent, storage-based energy solutions help us to produce significant quantities of green energy and use these in a sustainable manner. As a local employer within the pro-climate community of Saerbeck, however, we feel duty-bound to support not just Saerbeck’s climate targets but also those of local businesses, explained Olaf von Lehmden, CEO of EnviTec Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG.
Contractors for the production building were all sourced from the region, and these tradespeople attended the inauguration ceremony together with the two local vicars and the Mayor of Saerbeck, Dr Tobias Lehberg.
Saerbeck is working towards achieving climate neutrality as a community by 2030. This means that emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) will have to drop to net zero in Saerbeck by this date.
We are proud to be part of Saerbeck’s pro-climate community and to be able to take a further step towards the expansion of renewable energies both locally and throughout Europe with our new production building, concluded Olaf von Lehmden.