Geminor signs contract for RDF export

Geminor, a Norwegian resource management company, has signed a contract to handle its first export of treated waste from Iceland, the company reports in a news release. 

Geminor has signed a five-year contract to export secondary fuels, or refuse-derived fuel (RDF), from Iceland to an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in the Netherlands. The waste will be used as a fuel to produce electricity, steam and heat for industry and district heating, Geminor reports in a news release. The first shipment will leave Iceland this summer, and regular shipments will begin in October.

According to the agreement, a total of 70,000 metric tons of RDF will be exported to the Netherlands from Iceland in the five years to come. Ralf Schöpwinkel, chief operating officer at Geminor, says moving this contract forward is an important step in the company’s international expansion process. 

“Today, all waste on Iceland goes to landfill,” Schöpwinkel says. “This contract means that Iceland now joins many other European countries in making good use of their household waste by sending it to the EU as secondary fuel. This is not only a milestone for Iceland, but also for Geminor as a resource management company.”