Envac’s Middle East operation has merged to become part of a new EMEA macro division, which will include the company’s activities in Europe and Africa. It employs 200 people and operates and maintains almost 100 facilities across the Middle East, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.
Östra Sjukhuset, part of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, is setting the global standard in sustainable hospital waste and linen management after appointing Envac to install its optical linen sorting technology as part of a major modernisation programme.
Envac has committed to making its global operation carbon neutral by 2030 following the publication of its annual sustainability report. Launched this month, the report illustrates the Stena Adactum-owned firm’s environmental, economic and social achievements throughout 2021.
Envac, the pneumatic waste collection system that is shaping smart cities’ waste strategies worldwide, is about to make a permanent visit to Reykjavik’s main hospital after winning the contract to install its technology in the New Landspitali Hospital (NLSH).
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“This report gives structure to how Envac showcases the positive impact our products have had for decades. With this report, I am sure that our customers and other stakeholders can better appreciate Envac as a sustainable business partner,” says Joakim Karlsson, CEO and President Envac Group.
Envac, the global architect of the pneumatic waste collection system (PWCS), has opened 2021 by commemorating 60 years since it unveiled the world’s first ever PWCS with a rebrand.
Envac has appointed another contracts manager as it prepares for what its General Manager claims will be the year of AWCS as multiple developments across the UK include the technology in planning applications.
Singapore has increased its commitment to pneumatic waste conveyance systems (PWCS) after Parliament passed changes to the Environmental Public Health Act in a move that will now see the technology rolled out district-wide as opposed to on a development-by-development basis.
Singapore has paved the way for sustainable waste collection via pneumatic waste conveyance systems (PWCS) following its decision to make the technology mandatory in new non-landed developments with at least 500 dwellings.
An upmarket regeneration development in Seoul’s vibrant Seocho Gu district has commissioned Envac’s automated waste collection system (AWCS) to collect the waste of a library, kindergarten, care home, neighbourhood facilities and 2,296 mixed use apartments over a 32-acre site when it goes live in 2022.
Stockholm now joins other visionary cities around the world including Seoul, Singapore, Helsinki and Bergen in treating waste collection as a utility and ensuring that AWCS features at the initial planning application stages as opposed to traditional bins, which are typically a post-planning consideration.
London is set to become home to one of the largest automated waste collection systems (AWCS) in Europe after Barking Riverside Limited, a joint venture between London & Quadrant (L&Q) and the Mayor of London, selected Envac to handle the waste of almost 10,000 homes at Barking Riverside London.