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16 17 | 16 AZIN 17 G A MAGAZINE M EnviTec Annual Magazine of EnviTec Biogas PLANT CONSTRUCTION Joyeux anniversaire EnviTec Biogas in its tenth year in France – French farmers like Régis Marie join forces with EnviTec to promote the energy transition. +++ News from our company Page 14 +++ Interviews, state- ments and opinions +++ Projects, technologies, services Annual magazine of EnviTec Biogas Annual magazine of EnviTec PLANT CONSTRUCTION EnviTec grows its market share in Asia Page 18 SERVICE The engine experts – EnviTec’s all-round service Page 33 COMPANY 100% satisfaction: customer survey results Page 44 2 EDITORIAL EDITORIAL 3 Editorial Dear Readers, Flexibility is the name of the game! Especially when this involves becoming and staying relevant as a mid-sized The yearly magazine of EnviTec Biogas company in the biogas market. Thanks to a sustainable busi- informs customers, employees and investors ness model, dedicated staff and our valued customers, we can look back with satisfaction on a successful past year and about its current activities. have every confidence as we look to the future. This year, we have once again put our innovative skills and energies to good use. As a European technology leader, we’re setting standards in the market. Here, our in-house operations are the driving force behind our company’s suc- cess. Our pipeline is also well-stocked: there is a focus on our Service Team’s flexibilisation and repowering projects in Germany, while foreign projects are making waves with our EnviThan gas upgrading technology. Demand in this area is particularly high in France, as well as in China and Denmark. This year, we’re celebrating our tenth anniversary in the French market, and it’s our flexible waste material model EnviWaste that’s winning over more and more agricul- turalists here. Our title story joins Sylvain Mesnard, who helped launch our French operations, and Christian Ernst, the Managing Director of our EnviTec Biogas branch office in France, for a ten-year retrospective of plant construction in Europe’s biggest agricultural nation. While market prospects are good, we need to look further than our order pipeline, however. The competition never sleeps – and we must work continuously to keep our technological edge, identify the latest trends and continue to expand our portfolio. One example is gas feed-in, for example, where we are now extending our portfolio to CNG plant. Thanks to our partnership with the long-established CNG unit at Munich-based Bauer Kompressoren, a complete package from biodegradable waste to the CNG pump can now be offered from a single source (see Management Board interview, p. 10). Our order books are not the only area where our flexible and farsighted management is proving its worth. We have to stay adaptable as people, too: Brexit, Trump & Co. are now disrupting the established equilibrium of policy and markets. Thanks to the versa- tility of our team, however, we are well-placed to weather turbulent times in the biogas market. Which is why we have dedicated the last double-page spread to showcasing the flexibility of our 439 colleagues at home and abroad. You’ll probably recognise a familiar face or two! I hope you enjoy reading the sixth issue of our magazine, Jörg Fischer, CFO EnviTec Biogas AG 4 CONTENT CONTENT 5 Content EnviThan making inroads into the gas upgrading market Flexible at EnviTec: the variety of career paths taken by our employees Please feel free to 10 28 36 46 send feedback and entries for our next issue to our From biodegradable waste to the CNG pump: service stations New laboratory for our biological service in China powered by EnviTec editorial staff at magazin@envitec- biogas.de! 02 Editorial PLANT CONSTRUCTION 22 Full steam ahead SERVICE COMPANY 05 Imprint for R&D 04 Content 13 Plant construction 31 Service news 43 Company news EnviTec Biogas AG EnviTec Biogas invests around Boschstr. 2 news one million Euros in Research 06 Good to know … 33 The engine experts 44 100 % satisfaction 48369 Saerbeck and Development in 2016. Important and not-so- 14 Joyeux anniversaire Technical service at A clear sign that Tel. 02574 8888-0 [email protected] important news from the EnviTec Biogas EnviTec Biogas is seen as a EnviTec France 28 EnviThan scores [email protected] industry and our company leading provider of all-in-one Our French subsidiary a score www.envitec-biogas.de solutions both domestically celebrates its 10th anniversary. 36 Precise analysis 08 Photo of the Year EnviThan conquers the and internationally Publisher: State-of-the-art lab tech + gas upgrading market at a EnviTec Biogas AG 18 Asia goes green biological know-how = faster 10 Interview with the breathtaking pace. 46 Flexibility Chief Editor: Well begun is half done. service Katrin Hackfort, EnviTec Biogas AG Management Board Few companies offer as wide Concept and Design: a range of career choices as Flexibility in all areas 20 Setting a shining 38 Retrofitting made easy Kreutzmann Unternehmens- EnviTec kommunikation, Hamburg example Whether flexitime or flexible Source of pictures pages 6/7, 19: investments, it always pays to EnviTec now building for the 50 Highlights 2016/2017 www.fotolia.de DONG Energy Group. be versatile Title: Régis Marie (r.), operator of Impressions from the last Agri Energie, Étréville (Normandy), financial year 40 Proactive protection with plant manager Loïc Chaise The EnviTec allrounder team EnviTec MAGAZIN is available free, now offers consulting services by post or e-mail. Reproduction, on safety topics. even in part, only with approval of the editorial staff. Printed on 100% recycling paper. 6 GOOD TO KNOW … GOOD TO KNOW … 7 Good to know … Over 900 public filling stations are available in Germany for environmentally-aware car owners. Finding them is as simple as following the filling station sign with a CNG (compressed natural gas) symbol. EnviTec Biogas is also betting on CNG and has expanded its portfolio to include CNG plants. Thanks to our partnership with the long-established CNG unit at Munich-based Bauer Kompressoren, a complete package from biodegradable waste to the CNG pump can now be offered from a single source ( see also Management 15.000 Euro every year Board interview, p. 10). The tax rebate enjoyed by French biogas plant operators since 2016. While French annual tax legislation introduced tax relief for agricultural biogas plants in 2015 limited to a seven-year period, this tax rebate will now apply permanently from 2016 onwards. The benefits are impressive: for an agricultural biogas plant with an output billion Euros of around 200 kilowatts of electrical power, this equals an average annual tax rebate In 2016, revenue for the German bi- 200 of around EUR 15,000, reports the interdisciplinary law firm Sterr-Kölln & Partner ogas industry totalled EUR 8 billion, TOP 3 based in Freiburg, Germany. helping to secure 40,000 jobs. And In Germany, the top three reasons for buying PLANTS this money stays where the biogas plants are built: in an EnviTec plant were the quality of the plant, Million tons currently feed directly into rural areas. Biogas plants boost business in the regions the ‘all from a single source’ model and the In Germany, 82 million tonnes of products the German gas network. and secure jobs with a future – a massive boost for the company’s reputation. In other countries, En- from industrial digestion are now being Upgrading biogas to bio- rural economy! viTec impressed customers with its technical used as organic fertilisers in the agricul- methane started around design, service, support and hotline, and plant tural sector. The main producers of this ten years ago. The great quality. These were the findings of the latest fertiliser are biogas plant operators, who thing about gas is that it customer satisfaction survey – thank you for use post-processing techniques to make taking part! ( For details, see p. 44) can be drawn off at any 82 marketable fertilisers from the generally point and converted into liquid digestate produced in biogas plants – heat and power or used to a highly fruitful approach! 23 % fuel CNG vehicles. that’s the new regional target for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Great many for the use of renewable energy sources in the Philippines by 2025. VISITORS During the last year of business, a great many visitors showed interest in products and innovations from En- 9.000 biogas plants viTec Biogas. The company exhibited An estimated 40 % at a total of 19 fairs in 12 countries. By the end of 2016, 9,000 biogas plants were able to provide EnviTec goes global! of the world’s biomass energy capacities are to be found in an installed electrical output of over 4,000 megawatts (MW) in Europe, with 30% in Asia. Worldwide, biomass energy has Germany. That’s as much as about four nuclear power sta- a 5.3% share (around 100 gigawatts), based on rated power 944 CLICKS A DAY tions. As a result of the positive developments in recent years, station output. This is almost double the share compared the German biogas industry can now draw on comprehensive are logged by the relaunched EnviTec Biogas to ten years ago, according to statistics published by the experience and the power to innovate needed to turn biogas website. With its clear and streamlined online International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). technology ‘Made in Germany’ into a successful global export. presence, the biogas allrounder has again impressed customers and partners with its outstanding transparency. Why not drop by for a look? www.envitec-biogas.com 8 PHOTO OF THE YEAR PHOTO OF THE YEAR 9 Photo of the Year Biology at its best Thanks to the state-of-the-art equipment at EnviTec’s new lab, experts like Manuela Bauer need only a few hours to find out just how and where help needs to be provided for a biogas plant.