Published on 30th April 2023
Waste-to-Energy technology provides an advanced and safe means of waste disposal.
A waste-to-energy facility (WtE facility) or an energy-from-waste (EfW) facility helps in turning waste into energy—substantially decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, generating clean energy, and reducing the amount of waste entering landfills.
Common waste streams include:
The top three WtE companies based on revenue are Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, and Keppel Seghers.
Continue reading to learn more about the leading WtE technology suppliers and service providers in the world.
Table of Contents
Global Top 10 Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Companies [2023]
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S
Ebara Corporation
Hitachi Zosen Corporation
JFE Engineering Corporation
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Keppel Seghers
Martin GmbH
MHIEC
Steinmüller Babcock Environment GmbH (Hitachi Zosen Inova Steinmüller GmbH)
Valmet
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Wrapping Up
Here are the world’s leading WtE companies (listed alphabetically):
Founded: 1999
Location: Esbjerg, Denmark
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S is a subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox (B&W)—an industry leader in energy and environmental technologies.
Babcock & Wilcox provides mass-burn and RDF options when using waste as a combustion fuel. Furthermore, mass burning uses three major designs, including:
Babcock & Wilcox also offers the following for WtE applications:
Currently, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund is known as one of the world’s leading technology suppliers to convert household waste and biomass into heat and power.
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S specializes in the following:
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S offers biomass energy systems, environmental protection and emission reduction products, gasification systems, and waste-to-energy systems.
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund has designed and built 560+ waste-to-energy lines worldwide and revolutionized waste disposal techniques.
Founded: 1912
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ebara Corporation (EBARA) is a leading manufacturer of environmental and industrial machinery.
EBARA provides a diverse range of waste recycling solutions and has installed nearly 400 waste treatment plants in Japan, with 80+ waste treatment plant operation and management contracts.
EBARA provides the following WtE solutions:
Stoker-type incineration system: The system is ideal for a wide range of applications—from small to large furnaces and from low-to-high calorific value of the waste.
Fluidized-bed incinerator system: This incinerator quickly and uniformly incinerates waste using the heat capacity of hot fluidizing sand. The system is also suitable for mixed incineration with night-soil sludge or sewage sludge.
Gasification technology: EBARA’s gasification systems make it possible to break down heterogeneous materials and waste plastics containing impurities and re-use them as raw materials in the production of chemical fibers, plastics, and rubber.
Boilers: EBARA’s internally circulating fluidized-bed boilers enable stable incineration of various fuels, such as biomass, coal, and discarded tires.
Founded: 1881
Location: Osaka, Japan
Hitachi Zosen Corporation is a prominent industrial and engineering corporation with a wide range of offerings, including:
Hitachi Zosen Corporation has delivered a large number of WtE facilities, which burn waste and treat it hygienically, while producing electricity that is sent outside as an energy resource.
Founded: 1912
Location: Tokyo, Japan
JFE Engineering Corporation (JFE Engineering) is a comprehensive engineering company delivering a broad range of products and services covering bridges & steel structures, industrial machinery, power generation & electricity, waste management plants, water & sewage, among others.
JFE Engineering provides the following under “Waste-to-Energy Plants”:
JFE Engineering also offers WtE operation & maintenance. In addition, the company developed “JFE Hyper Remote” for providing 24-hour remote management, monitoring, and operation support for plants and speedy professional service by technical experts.
Founded: 1896
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Founded by Shōzō Kawasaki, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI) is one of Japan’s three major heavy industrial manufacturers.
The world-renowned Japanese multinational corporation provides an advanced stoker system and a flue gas processing system, as well as a waste combustion system.
Kawasaki Advanced Stoker-type Incinerator
The parallel flow type incinerator enables low air ratio, high-temperature combustion, reduces energy loss, and minimizes the formation of toxic substances.
Flue Gas Processing System
Key features
Founded: 1974
Locations: Belgium, Doha, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai
Keppel Seghers is a member of the Keppel Infrastructure Group. Keppel Seghers is a leading provider of environmental solutions, delivering 450+ environmental projects across 25 countries.
Keppel Seghers provides a complete suite of solid waste management solutions, including:
Technology Package (Basic): In this model, the furnace block takes priority as an imported section of the WtE plant, while a local partner integrates the remaining of the plant.
A furnace block’s typical scope of work comprises basic and detailed engineering, technology supply, site guidance, process performance guarantees, and plant follow-up.
Process Island (Standard): This model is optimal when Keppel Seghers focuses on the process island scope, while the partner takes care of the power island.
Extended Process Island (Complete): This model is optimal when the partner does not have any power island experience.
A process island’s typical scope includes:
Here are Keppel Seghers’ featured projects on solid waste management:
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Project |
Location |
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Singapore Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) |
Singapore |
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Hong Kong Integrated Waste Management Facility (HKIWMF) Phase 1
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Hong Kong |
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Kwinana Energy-from-Waste Plant |
Perth, Australia |
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Bao An Waste-to-Energy Plant |
Shenzhen, China |
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Domestic Solid Waste Management Center (DSWMC) |
Doha, Qatar |
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Greater Manchester Energy-from-Waste Plant |
Manchester, UK |
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Bialystok Energy-from-Waste Plant |
Poland |
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Keppel Seghers Waste-to-Energy Plant |
Singapore |
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Senoko Waste-to-Energy Plant |
Singapore |
Founded: 1925
Location: Munich, Germany
Founded by Josef Martin, Martin GmbH (MARTIN) is a globally leading supplier of plants for the thermal treatment of waste. The company is a fourth-generation family-owned business that has grown into a well-known brand for sustainable treatment of waste.
MARTIN provides the following waste-to-energy services:
MARTIN’s waste-to-energy technologies include:
Founded: 2009
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
MHIEC (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.) is a Group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI). MHIEC was established as a merger between MJK and REC.
MHIEC’s waste-to-energy solutions include:
Mitsubishi Stoker Waste-to-Energy System
Here are the major advantages of the Mitsubishi WtE system:
Advanced Flue Gas Treatment
The environment-friendly flue gas treatment system involves the following:
Mitsubishi MSW Gasification & Ash Melting System
Here are the major advantages of the Mitsubishi MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) Gasification & Ash Melting system:
Founded: 1824
Location: Gummersbach, Germany
Steinmüller Babcock Environment GmbH (now known as “Hitachi Zosen Inova Steinmüller GmbH” or “HZI Steinmüller”) specializes in thermal waste treatment and flue gas cleaning.
HZI Steinmüller’s innovative processes (like thermal waste utilization) can decrease the volume of waste by up to 90%, leaving only 10% of hazard-free substances.
HZI Steinmüller’s grate is particularly effective in combusting the waste at a firm rate through the thermal recycling process that involves continuously pushing forward waste on the steinmüller.grate surface and combusting it.
HZI Steinmüller segregates waste into five categories based on the waste type (source of the refuse):
Here is HZI Steinmüller’s concept for producing energy from household waste:
Founded: 2013
Location: Espoo, Finland
With 220+ years of industrial from cloth making to high-tech processes, Valmet is an established market leader with five business lines, including Automation Systems, Flow Control, Paper, Pulp and Energy, and Services.
Valmet’s energy solutions include sustainable waste-to-energy solutions, such as:
Valmet BFB Boiler
Valmet BFB Boiler uses the BFB (Bubbling Fluidized Bed) combustion technology to ensure high combustion efficiency and reliability, good controllability, low emissions, and wide fuel flexibility.
Valmet CFB Boiler
An advanced CFB (Circulating Fluidized Bed) boiler that combines high-efficiency combustion of different solid fuels with low emissions.
Gasifier
Valmet is a pioneer in waste gasification. As an industry leader in CFB gasification technologies and services, Valmet offers tailor-made gasification solutions to generate energy efficiently from biomass and waste.
Automation for Energy
Valmet provides automation and information management application expertise to diverse WtE plants using industrial waste, municipal waste (containing food waste, product packaging, paper, etc.), wood waste, or sludge.
For instance, the Valmet DNA automation system with scalable architecture covers the entire control and monitoring of all WtE plant processes.
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A waste-to-energy plant is a type of power plant known by other names, such as:
Massive urbanization, limited land availability, and the steady growth in waste generation are some of the key factors responsible for the increasing adoption of WtE technologies (such as hydrogen-producing thermal gasification) in global waste management programs.
Converting waste into energy provides significant benefits, such as enhancing energy independence, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and recovering valuable metals post-incineration, while generating renewable energy for homes and businesses.
Processing different waste materials (commercial, residential, and industrial) into fuel not only results in energy generation but also avoids the formation of biogas from landfills—commonly known as “landfill gas” or “LFG” typically containing carbon dioxide and methane.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “a typical waste-to-energy plant generates about 550 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy per ton of waste.”
Waste-to-energy companies (WtE companies) have proven to be efficient and reliable providers of advanced waste-to-energy solutions and industrial services for safe and sustainable energy recovery.