Sweden-based Envac’s Korean subsidiary has won an order for an underground waste transport system for a new urban development project outside Seoul in South Korea.

Stockholm/Seoul – According to Envac, a Swedish corporation with over 40 years of experience in automated waste collection, a new suburb by the name of Kimpo New Town in Gyeonggi-do, about 20 km to the north west of Seoul, will be built with 53,000 apartments, offices and shops. The waste system will be expanded in stages. The first order, which totals approx. SEK 55 million (1 EUR = 10,2932 SEK), involves among other things the detailed design work for the project. “Envac’s system will handle two separate waste fractions: organic food waste and an incinerable fraction,” the company says.” 430 waste disposal chutes will connect more than 7 km of pipes with a number of waste terminals, which are designed to process a total of 77 tonnes of waste each day.” Envac’s partner in the project is the Korean construction company Taeyoung.

As is reported, the order for Kimpo New Town is one of a large number of recent orders from South Korean municipalities. So far Envac has supplied underground waste systems for 230,000 households in the area around Seoul.

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