INEOS Automotive has opened a 15 million Euro biomass heat plant at its Hambach production and assembly site. With a 9.2-megawatt output, the plant will consume up to 14,000 tonnes of locally sourced woodchips per year, to supply 78% of the facility\u2019s heating requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than half a billion euros has been invested in Hambach since 2019. Key upgrades over the last five years include a new fully automated bodyshop, semi-automated paintshop, quality inspection laboratory, and a wading pool for water ingress testing. With this, the plant\u2019s usable footprint has grown by over 60% to a total of 210,000 m\u00b2, resulting in a significant increase in heating requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new biomass plant features two boilers with joint thermal outputs of 8.4 MW connected to an 800 KW heat pump. It will supply over three-quarters of the site\u2019s heating needs, with the existing gas boiler providing the balance. The switch to biomass is expected to cut around 8,800 tonnes of CO2<\/sub> per year from the site\u2019s emissions. Waste ash is then recycled via the local agriculture industry – its high nitrate content making for an enriched fertiliser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur ongoing investment in Hambach means our Grenadier and Quartermaster models are built to world-class quality standards, and in an environmentally sustainable factory, for export to over 50 sales markets around the world,\u201d <\/em>said Lynn Calder, CEO INEOS Automotive. \u201cWe\u2019re very proud of the advanced facilities and its exceptional workforce, which together make it one of the most advanced automotive production sites in Europe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Philippe Steyer, President of INEOS Automotive SAS, said: \u201cThe new biomass plant is the latest in a longstanding and ongoing programme of sustainability-driven initiatives at Hambach. It was critical for us to increase our sustainable energy capacity to meet our growing consumption as the site expands.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Hambach Energy Transition project was supported by France\u2019s ADEME (Agency for Environment & Energy Management) with a \u20ac3.9m grant under Heat Fund assistance & PNCEE (P\u00f4le national des certificats d’\u00e9conomies d’\u00e9nergie). It is also assisted by an agreement between INEOS Automotive and Dalkia, which is providing a grant of up to \u20ac1.5m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" INEOS Automotive has opened a 15 million Euro biomass heat plant at its Hambach production and assembly site. With a 9.2-megawatt output, the plant will consume up to 14,000 tonnes of locally sourced woodchips per year, to supply 78% of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15579,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions\/15579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}