Aims

MVV Umwelt intends to become delivering one of the major contractors in the UK EfW sector. The focus is on developing a UK-based company that can grow through delivering PFI projects, acquisitions and merchant plants and sharing best practice with its German parent. Indeed, the first class technology and efficiency characteristic of the German model will be paramount in its UK activities. MVV’s planned high performance, modern EfW plants are able to deal with large waste contracts in a sustainable and energy efficient manner.

MVV Umwelt has wide and varied experience in the waste management and energy sector and although the primary focus will be on PFI projects, other opportunities for development will be explored. This could involve commercial and industrial waste merchant plants and waste wood plants, the latter similar to MVV’s plants in Wicker, Mannheim and Königs Wusterhausen in Germany. Other areas of potential future development include acquisitions of operational plant or late stage development opportunities.

MVV offers:

MVV Umwelt has experience of planning, designing and building and operating EfW plants of different sizes in Germany. In coming to the UK, MVV has a number of key characteristics that will be crucial in managing the UK’s waste in a sustainable fashion:

• Ability to deliver
• Working with local authorities and partners to produce the best solutions
• Environmentally sustainable technology
• High energy efficiency
• Expertise in CHP and district heating systems

The UK waste debate

MVV Environment has already begun to play an important role in shaping the debate in the UK on how to best to manage waste in a sustainable, long-term fashion.

In October 2008 MVV Environment sponsored The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) Seminar on Thermal Treatment and Waste Strategy. The seminar discussed Energy from Waste as a solution to waste disposal problems and how the issues it creates link into energy and waste policy.

MVV Environment is also sponsoring a debate on CHP in Waste at the PPP in Waste seminar on 11th March 2009. Paul Carey, Managing Director of MVV Environment, will be speaking at the event.