Opcon to deliver fuel handling system for biomass plant
Saxlund International's contract value amounts to 60 million Kronor and is by far its largest order to date. Saxlund got the contract along with Canning Conveyor Ltd.Saxlund will be supplying the biomass reception and screening system, the bulk storage and discharge with several Saxlund rotary TubeFeeders and the elevating chain conveying system to the combustion plant. Work will start immediately, with deliveries starting in 2011 and commissioning in March 2013.The new energy plant will be the largest of its kind so far in Scotland and will reduce Tullis Russels’s annual carbon emissions by some 250,000 tons."The UK market and our presence there is an important part in our aim to grow internationally within bioenergy and waste heat recovery”, says Per Hedebäck, Executive Vice President, Renewable Energy, Opcon AB.