Indaver – leading the field in sustainable waste management
Indaver is a reliable partner to both industry and public authorities for ecologically and economically responsible waste management.
Over the years Indaver has become a European player, with facilities and operations at more than 30 locations in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The Indaver Group manages around 5 million tonnes of waste every year, using the best available techniques for the treatment of this waste.
In all of our activities, we recover as many materials and as much energy as possible. In doing so Indaver wants to contribute to the transition to a circular economy that uses materials and energy more intelligently. Our society still considers waste to be a problem, but for Indaver it is an opportunity. As a supplier of high-quality raw materials and renewable energy, we are a partner to public authorities, industry and society in this circular economy.
Recycling Waste Solvents:
A need for the industry and the environment
The treatment and recycling of organic solvents is an important topic in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry as large amounts of solvents are generated annually. In most cases, solvents require strict hazardous waste management. High-quality solvents are valuable and in most cases, is suited for material recycling applications. Low-quality solvents on the other hand have no added value as material but can be recovered to use as an alternative fuel for thermal treatment so these are suited for energy recovery application.
Recycling and recovering solvents have large ecological benefits. So for both types of solvents, high and low quality ones, Indaver has the right solution and installations.
Indaver Solvents: focus on recycling & manufacturing
With Indaver Solvents and its different technologies such as pervaporation, fractionation, and distillation, Indaver provides large-scale solutions for solvent recycling.
Indaver Solvents can rely on several own recycling facilities across Europe which provide a recycling alternative for solvent waste that today is being used and/or exported for thermal treatment. With Indaver Solvents, we are investing signifcantly to raise the efficiency, capacity and sustainability of the recycling plants in Middlewich (UK) and Antwerp (BE) to an even higher level. The optimizations are focused on performance, quality and safety so we can manage, handle and process more complex flows.
Key benefits of solvent recycling
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reclamation and return of treated solvent (Toll Manufacture)
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alternative supply from the virgin solvent market for the supply of solvent
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some waste previously sent for incineration can now be recycled
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CO2 avoidance and overall lower environmental impact
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recycled solvents are valuable raw materials for industry
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direct contribution to the circular economy
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lower costs
On-site, dedicated solvent recycling facilities: decentralised (BOO) solutions
Indaver Solvents is well aware that the development of dedicated solvent recycling facilities on the customer’s site can be justifiable depending on the volume and value of the recoverable solvent(s).
On-site facilities have several advantages on top of the benefits of solvent recycling in general such as:
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reduction in transport as no more trucks entering and leaving the customer’s site
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improved safety as no more connecting & disconnecting trucks to tank farms
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cost reduction because of fewer transport costs
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less waste being sent off-site
Indaver Solvents is able to support and advise in all areas related to the development of such new, dedicated facilities:
FINANCE – DESIGN – BUILDING – OPERATIONS – MAINTENANCE
Our solvent recovery installations
Low-quality solvents that are not fit for solvent recycling, can be pre-treated to be used as a substitute fuel in cement kilns. These solvent recovery facilities (SRF) are located in Dublin (IRE) and Terneuzen (NL).
Solvent recovery in Ireland
The 20,000 tonnes per annum Solvent Recovery Facility in Dublin port is part of Indaver’s Dublin Port Hazardous Waste Facility.
Solvent recovery in The Netherlands
The Solvent Recovery Facility in the port of Terneuzen in The Netherlands is part of Indaver’s Industrial Hazardous Waste Transfer station.
Products
Waste is not the end of a product’s lifecycle. Here at Indaver, we see it as a rich and value-adding source of new raw materials.
Precious Metals
Your liquid catalyst waste contains metals worth recovering
When precious metals dissolve into your process liquids, most recovery routes fall short. Indaver Precious Metals was built specifically for this challenge — delivering end‑to‑end recovery of palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, platinum and iridium from complex liquid waste through a fully integrated closed‑loop, handling every step for you with unmatched efficiency and full transparency.
Liquid CO₂
Bio Power Alphen
Alphen aan den Rijn (in the Netherlands) is home to our cutting-edge bio-digestor plant ‘Bio Power Alphen’. We digest wet vegetable fruit and garden waste, selectively collected by municipalities, into biogas. Next we convert the biogas into green gas and liquid CO2. The liquid CO2 is used in numerous industrial applications. This capture and reuse of CO2 is an innovative example of how we are contributing to the European climate objective of carbon neutrality by 2050.
Compost and Biomass
Bio Organic Waste
Indaver processes bio-organic waste, such as green and VGF waste (vegetable, fruit and garden waste) into high-quality compost and biomass in the Netherlands. With good quality compost, we give the soil back its natural nutrients. From the woody fraction of green waste, we produce biomass in the form of woodchips, which serve as a sustainable fuel or as ground cover. In this way, we close the cycle.
Hydrochloric Acid
HCL
Hydrochloric acid is a product mainly used by the chemical, petrochemical, metallurgical and food-processing industries. It is therefore a much-wanted primary material. Indaver has developed a sustainable recycling solution for its industrial customers providing a circular economy solution for hydrochloric or chlorinated waste that is both safe and environmentally responsible.
Green Gas
Bio Power Alphen
Alphen aan den Rijn (in the Netherlands) is home to our cutting-edge bio-digestor plant ‘Bio Power Alphen’. We digest wet vegetable fruit and garden waste, selectively collected by municipalities, into biogas. Next, we convert the biogas into premier-quality green gas. We feed this info the grid where it replaces natural gas form fossil fuels.
Bottom Ash Granulates
From waste to building material
Indaver processes approximately 90.000 tonnes of bottom ash from waste incineration plants every year. This results in 30.000 tonnes of high-quality granules, which are given a second life as a circular building material or useful application.
These granulates are successfully used as an alternative to natural gravel in concrete clinkers and stacking blocks (legio blocks). In this way, Indaver contributes to a more sustainable construction industry by converting waste into valuable raw materials.
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Indaver in the news…
As a waste management company, Indaver’s work is close to the heart of the general public. We therefore strive for open communication with our customers and neighbours, with the government and the media. We make our activities and viewpoints known clearly and correctly.
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