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New joint venture to focus on Indian market

Mumbai-based waste management and renewable energy company Mailhem Engineers and French Lhotellier Ikos Group have established a joint venture named Mailhem Ikos Environment Private Limited, as reported by the source. The new joint venture will…

City of Pune tenders a number of WtE projects

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently invited an expression of interest for technologies to process and dispose of mixed solid waste, as reported by Waste Management World. The proposal aims at establishing 15 small…

Satarem launches WtE management project

Engineering company Satarem, a joint venture between Swiss Satarem AG and Indian Shivrams Associates Corporation, have launched an integrated municipal waste management partnership on a PPP basis with municipal waste management company Bangalore Mahanagar Palike.…

Debate about waste incineration in cement kilns

According to the source, the Foundation and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) said in a white paper that if the use of waste as fuel in cement kilns reached five per cent, India’s CO2…

Chinese technology for RDF plant in Delhi

Chinese technology is to be deployed at a 13 MWel RDF facility being developed in the Narela Bawana area of Delhi. The facility is due to be operational by November. 4,000 tons of RDF per…

Messe Frankfurt took over Watertech trade fair

Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India, the Indian subsidiary of Messe Frankfurt, has acquired the Indian trade fair Watertech from Exhiference Media Pvt Ltd. Watertech is a trade fair and conference on waste, wastewater and recycling…

Swiss bidding process for WtE project in Kochi

According to Waste Management World, the state government in Kochi, Kerala, has chosen the “Swiss Challenge System” of tendering for its proposed 500 tons per day WtE plant in Brahmapuram. The investment volume of the…

Gasification plant underway in Tambaram

Preliminary civil works have begun at a WtE gasification facility in the village of Venkatamangalam, Tamil Nadu. It will process MSW from the municipalities of Tambaram and Pallavaram. Mumbai-based Essel Infraprojects and Tambaram Municipal Solid…

Plans for WtE plant in Jawaharnagar

According to Waste Management World, India-based waste management and environmental services company Ramky Enviro Engineers (REE), is to begin construction of a 3,100 tons per day, 40 MW WtE facility in Jawaharnagar, Andhra Pradesh, in…

Plans for WtE plant in Chennai

There are plans to build a WtE facility in Kuthambakkam, a suburb of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This was reported by The Hindu. Representatives of companies from various countries made proposals at a meeting at the…

Mumbai invites to submit proposals for WtE plants

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is inviting international companies to submit proposals for three WtE facilities with a capacity of 1,000 metric tons per day each. Mumbai generates about 6,500 tons of waste per day…

Protests against Okhla WtE plant’s emissions

The residents welfare association (RWA) in Delhi has handed in written complaints at the city’s government and the operator of the Okhla WtE facility, criticising that the plant has been emitting thick black smoke and…