Hazardous waste treatment: SUEZ NWS wins a new contract in China on the arrival of CIIE

As a sponsor of the French Pavilion at the second edition of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) and a global leader in the environmental services industry, SUEZ had the great honor to receive the Presidents of China and France on CIIE’s opening day on 5 November. CIIE showcases China's vision to open up to the world and build an open and cooperative world economy. The hazardous waste energy recovery unit (ERU) in the Hekou Blue Economy Chemical Industry Park in Dongying is financed, built and will be operated by a joint-venture¹ of SUEZ NWS and its local partners, which is the embodiment of that vision.

With a total capacity of 60,000 tons/year, the facility will provide treatment services for 24 types of hazardous waste for industries located in the park and in Dongying city. The construction of the plant will take place in two phases. Phase I, with a capacity of 30,000 tons/year, will break ground in 2020 and be commissioned by 2021. Phase II will double the plant’s capacity to reach 60,000 tons/year.

The facility will be designed and built according to EU air emissions standards. Once Phase I of the project is commissioned, 89,400 tons of steam will be produced and supplied each year to the park’s industrial customers. This is equivalent to saving 12,000 tons of standard coal per year, thus limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

These contracts strengthen SUEZ NWS' presence in the fast-growing hazardous waste treatment market in China. The Group recently built and operates seven ERU in Shanghai, Nantong, Changzhou, Taixing, Qidong, Suzhou and Qinzhou with a combined capacity of 295,000 tons of hazardous waste per year. In Taiwan, SUEZ NWS operates the Dafa plant in Kaohsiung that provides waste-to-energy and combined physical and chemical treatment for various streams of hazardous waste (chemical waste, solvents, etc.).

[1] SUEZ Tsinghua Go Higher Environmental Technology (Dongying) Company Limited, a JV formed by SUEZ NWS (46%), Go Higher (44%) and Hekou Blue Economy Industrial Park (10%).