(Sept. 6) – The Astaldi Group has won the contract to build a plant to produce energy by transforming the urban solid waste of Poland’s Bydgoszcz-Torun metropolitan area, for a total value of EUR 95 million (with a 51% stake, Astaldi is the initiative’s leader). The contract calls for designing and building the civil and electromechanical works for the plant, which will consist of two incineration lines with a total nominal capacity of 180,000 tons/year of processed waste. The plant will make it possible to recover, transform, and convey electricity and heat for district heating, which will be introduced into the municipal grid serving the cities of Bydgoszcz and Torun, operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for at least 7,800 hours/year. The project also involves building a station to receive the waste, and a composting station. The works will be started in early 2013, and will continue for about 3 years. The initiative was commissioned by Międzygminny Kompleks Unieszkodliwiania Odpadów ProNatura Sp. z o.o, the company established by the Municipality of Bydgoszcz to manage urban waste. The project is part of a broad programme funded by the European Union to build plants to produce energy through the transformation of waste, initiated recently in Poland for the country’s major metropolitan areas. With this initiative, the Astaldi Group consolidates its standing in Poland, a country of great interest for commercial development policies, and where it is already engaged in carrying out contracts for the construction of Line 2 of the Warsaw underground, the Warsaw-Łodź railway line and the Łodź Fabryczna station and the Piotrkow-Tribunalski section of national road NR-8. (red)
