Gouda - Imtech N.V. (technical service provider in Europe) has been chosen by Afval Energie Bedrijf Amsterdam as the preferred supplier to design and realize the entirety of the electrical engineering for a new high-efficiency refuse-processing plant that is to be built in Amsterdam. The order is worth almost 15 million euros.

Afval Energie Bedrijf is intensifying its focus on obtaining energy from refuse. This is why a new high-efficiency refuse-processing plant is being realised in Amsterdam, as an expansion to the existing refuse-incineration plant. Using the most up-to-date technology and new materials, able to withstand high temperatures, this new plant will be capable of generating substantially more electricity from refuse. The new plant's electricity yield from one tonne of household refuse will be no less than thirty percent, almost double the current yield. Afval Energie Bedrijf Amsterdam supplies a portion of the sustainable electricity it generates to the municipality of Amsterdam. That electricity is used, amongst other things, for Amsterdam's trams and underground trains, street lighting, the music theatre and city hall. Enough energy is also left over to provide electricity to 100,000 families in Amsterdam and to supply residual heat to business in the Amsterdam-Westpoort industrial estate, to be used for heating business premises.

Imtech's responsibilities under the project will include designing and implementing all of the electrical engineering installations, the complete medium voltage, all transformers and the entire energy-distribution system. The project was awarded to Imtech because Imtech's tender offered the lowest operating costs over the complete lifecycle (Total Cost of Ownership) and because the proposed method of project management was regarded as highly professional. Imtech will complete the entirety of the electrical engineering at the new high-efficiency refuse-processing plant in June 2006.