News archive

December 17th, 2020

Presented rail-imported Italian RDF to industry guests in Sweden

Geminor's new waste stream runs from the Naples region to Geminor's Swedish HUB in Landskrona. The first load of baled Italian RDF was recently presented to industry guests from all over Sweden.

December 16th, 2020

2020 – a year out of the ordinary

Up until March there was no indication that the waste industry would experience anything but a normal year. Then COVID-19 arrived and turned Europe upside down.

December 14th, 2020

Vesar and Geminor sign a three-year contract

The intermunicipal waste company Vesar has signed a three-year contract with Geminor for the transport and recovery of sorted household waste. The contract can be extended by two years.

November 26th, 2020

Geminor plans to take a bigger share of the recovered paper market

The market for recovered waste paper (RCP) will grow considerably in Europe in the years to come. Geminor plans to contribute to the circular loop by bringing an expert onto the team.

Aalborg Portland and Geminor sign major SRF-contract

Geminor has signed an agreement for the delivery of 120,000 tonnes of SRF to cement producer Aalborg Portland. Geminor now invests more than EUR 1,5 million in a production line to design new fuels in Aalborg.

November 24th, 2020

Sweden receives first bulk shipment of RDF from Poland

A cargo of 3000 tonnes of Polish refuse-derived fuel (RDF) reached the Swedish port of Hargshamn in early November. This is the first RDF bulk import from Eastern Europe to Sweden.

October 29th, 2020

Geminor secures strategically important contracts in western Norway

Extended contracts with three intermunicipal waste companies means that Geminor will be handling 30 000 tonnes of waste for energy recovery over the next five years.

New contract introduces biomass export from Germany to Denmark

A newly signed contract will see German biomass wood chips being supplied as fuel into a Danish district heating plant this winter season. This is Geminor's first export of biomass from Germany.

October 20th, 2020

Geminor exports first ever baled RDF from Poland

A truck load of baled RDF bound for Norway represents the first ever export of waste fuels from Poland. For resource management company Geminor, this constitutes the beginning of an important and sustainable international waste stream.

September 30th, 2020

New volume record in spite of COVID-19

Geminor's HUB in Oxelösund in Sweden is back on track after a spring influenced by COVID-19. In July, the HUB set a new record by receiving almost 10,000 tonnes of waste fuels for energy recovery.

Geminor expands operations with new HUB in the port of Aalborg

Geminor's new HUB in Aalborg will increase treatment and storage capacity, and ensure good logistics of Danish and international waste fractions in the years to come.

September 29th, 2020

New rail transport route makes European waste fuels more sustainable

A cooperation with Deutsche Bahn (DB) marks the start of Geminor’s new transport route of waste fuels through central Europe. The coming shift to rail will cut CO2 emissions to only one fifth of the road transport emissions.

September 1st, 2020

New Danish waste regulation a challenge to European recycling

New Danish waste regulations will create a more open recycling market, but also limit import of waste to the country. - The intention is good, but limiting the waste import is counterproductive in a European context, argues Country Manager in Geminor DK, Kasper Thomsen.

Geminor starts export of 15-year-old waste from Italy

Geminor has commenced the shipment of 15-year-old Italian RDF to the Netherlands. The very first Geminor RDF shipment between the two countries is part of a regional five million tonnes waste clean-up operation.

August 21st, 2020

Increasing focus on waste wood and plastic fractions

A constantly changing international waste market requires better design and higher quality within waste fractions. - At the moment we are establishing a new quality fraction within plastic waste, says general manager at Geminor Waste Treatment, Johan Olø.

July 8th, 2020

Starts UK import as waste wood market reverses

Geminor has imported its first vessel of waste wood into the UK for recycling. The import comes as a response to the reverse in the UK market, and represents the beginning of a planned 50 000 tonnes import in 2020.

June 30th, 2020

Contract sets new international standard for low CO2 RDF

Danish EfW operator ARC and Geminor have signed a contract for the delivery of 30 000 tonnes of low CO2 RDF – or “green waste” – for energy- and heat production in the Copenhagen region.

June 29th, 2020

Why the Scandinavian EfW operators welcome the reopening of Premier League

COVID-19 creates changes in waste streams across Europe – changes most people are unaware of. The impact on the waste market and industry players has been substantial, but a review of several European countries shows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

June 16th, 2020

New Geminor subsidiary will increase material recycling of waste wood

EMG is a company established in Norway to further develop material recycling of waste wood in the Nordics and Europe. The company's first waste wood cargo was shipped from Norway to Scotland in early June.

May 28th, 2020

Geminor appointed exclusive agent on landfill waste in Europe

Norwegian waste operator Perpetuum makes Geminor an exclusive agent on European landfill waste.

Geminor saved CO2-emissions equivalent of 300,000 cars

The 2019 annual environmental report from Geminor shows that the company saved emissions of around 416 400 tonnes of CO2 equivalents in Europe last year.

May 20th, 2020

Waste plastic delivery represents start of chemical recycling

Resource management company Geminor will in the coming weeks deliver the first 500 tonnes of LDPE plastic to Quantafuel's factory in Skive, Denmark. The load represents the beginning of chemical circular economy of waste plastics in Europe.

April 29th, 2020

Launches first waste fuel transport exclusively on rails

Resource management company Geminor has completed the first international transport of RDF by train – without the support of trucks.

Geminor increases export of German waste wood

With the German EEG subsidy coming to an end, Germany will produce excess quantities of waste wood by 2022. Geminor now opens two new HUBs to increase waste wood export from the German market.

April 8th, 2020

Opens national office to increase Italian export

The surplus waste market in Italy is quickly becoming important for several European countries, especially during the COVID-19 epidemic. Geminor now opens an office in Bolzano to increase the Italian waste export.

March 13th, 2020

Calls for a joint effort to uphold waste streams

The Corona virus is now creating challenges for waste industry players all over Europe. – The waste industry is part of society’s critical infrastructure and must not come to a standstill, says Geminor CEO, Kjetil Vikingstad.

March 11th, 2020

These factors determine the future EfW market

Trying to forecast the direction of travel of the UK EfW market is complex, with many influencing factors. Relatively small changes can have significant effects upon the volume, quality and price level of waste fuels, argues Country Manager at Geminor UK, James Maiden.

February 28th, 2020