Biogen

When Biogen’s AD operations were rapidly expanding in the UK, the food waste specialist turned to UNTHA for shredding technology to support their growing business…

Biogen is the UK’s largest operator of food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plants. The organisation takes organic materials from food manufacturers, retailers, pubs, restaurants, hotels, offices and homes (via local authorities) and processes them to create:

– Biogas, which is fed into a Combined Heat and Power unit to produce renewable electricity for the national grid.

– A pasteurised PAS110-certified digestate, which is returned to the agricultural industry as a biofertiliser to grow crops.

Shredder

UNTHA RS40

Input material

Food waste

Output/Goal

Anaerobic digestion (AD)

The robust RS40s also provides a much-needed defence mechanism – they have no problem dealing with contaminants such as metals, which protects the rest of Biogen’s plant and ensures there are no unwanted foreign objects in the AD feedstock. Throughputs depend on the feedstock but the solution typically processes 8 tonnes/per hour, on average.

Whilst the RS40 is not necessarily the cheapest machine on the market, it does this difficult job very well. What’s more, it is an incredibly cost-effective machine in terms of ongoing running costs and spare parts, and its productivity and uptime means it is a value-adding tool for our business."

Biogen

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