Apeldoorn/Karacebey, 18 April 2011 – On Tuesday 19 April the Turkish dairy manufacturer Sütaş will officially bring into use Turkey’s first biogas installation, based on manure fermentation. This way the Karacebey site will switch over to green energy. From its headquarters in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, Bredenoord not only provided the biogas combined heat and power (CHP) installation for this project but also took care of the training of the Turkish maintenance engineers. As a result of the switch to green energy Sütaş reduces its annual CO2 emission with 10.000 tons.

Sütaş is Turkey’s largest dairy manufacturer with its own livestock. The biogas installation is located at the site of the Tarfas dairy company, which is part of the Sütaş-group. The manure produced by the company in combination with vegetable and fruit waste produces the biogas. The 345 kW generator converts the biogas into green energy. The installation is being monitored by computers from Apeldoorn, whereas maintenance is performed on-site by the Turkish Sütaş engineers. For this purpose they followed a training of several days in the English language at Bredenoord. Kees Boone, sales manager Bredenoord BioEnergy: “This project required a customer-made approach. Ranging from engineering and turn-key delivery to training and service: Bredenoord BioEnergy takes away the customer’s worries, both in the Netherlands and in places much further away.”

Stimulating international cooperation

The Dutch BGP Engineers and its partner Biogas Plus are the initiators of the Turkish biogas installation. BGP Engineers is specialised in consultancy and project development in the field of sustainable technologies and new forms of energy. Wim Maaskant, director of BGP: “We have chosen for a cooperation with Bredenoord because Bredenoord BioEnergy is well known as a reliable partner and it has the right technical capacities.”

The installation was completed in March of this year and is now fully operational. The project has been carried out as part of the Program Collaboration Emerging Markets of the then Ministry of Economic Affairs (now Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation). This program is aimed at the stimulation of business-to-business contacts in a.o. emerging markets. Maaskant: “The partners in this project expect this project to form a bridge towards further project realizations in Turkey.”

About Bredenoord

Bredenoord is a family concern with offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, involved in the rental, sales and production of mobile energy for over 70 years already. In addition the company also develops complete biogas CHPs (heat power combinations). Bredenoord is also dedicated to the preservation of mobile energy, amongst others with the hydrogen generator Purity and the Clear Air, a filter the reduces soot emission by 99%. Thus allowing the customer to choose for mobile energy from different types of fuel and with different levels of emission. www.bredenoord.com