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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
IMPROVING PROCESSES AND SERVICE PROVISION Continuity
ADEQUATE STORAGE CAPACITY Indaver’s customers expect continuity in its service provision. Adequate storage capacity is important to be able to treat the supply of waste streams efficiently and safely at all times. The treatment capacity for hazardous and complex waste, in particular, is under pressure due to the economic upturn. In disaster situations, that buffer is vital to maintain a constant supply and treatment capacity. Furthermore, by buffering we can make optimum use of every load for treatment. Repacking loads means that we can efficiently adapt them to the acceptance criteria for the specialist treatment facilities. We continually invest in
Thanks to this transparency and monitoring, we gain better insight into our free capacity and we can further
the operating area.
improve the storage management and treatment process.
Storage+ Terneuzen
New Tank Park in Biebesheim
In 2021, we were able to start using our new tank park
In 2021, our Biebesheim site (Germany) brought a new
in Terneuzen (the Netherlands). With this extra storage
tank park into operation. This extra storage capacity for
capacity we are responding to the growth of the
liquid waste streams means we can accept around 80%
Dutch IWS market and ensuring even higher quality,
more liquids for treatment. We also invested in our own
greater efficiency and an even better service
extinguishing system, to make us independent from the
provision.
public water grid. In Biebesheim we now have two new
Digital information system Hamburg
improving and supplementing our storage capacity.
Extra storage capacity of 700 m3 was made available to
Antwerp Tank Park
new tanks. They make it possible for us to accept a wide
In 2020, we renovated the infrastructure of our tank park in Antwerp (Belgium), which represents approximately 4,000 m3 of storage. In the new system, there is a separate unloading dock for each stream, with a safe unloading platform equipped with its own
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extinguishing system. This ensures fast unloading, without wastage or spillage, at a safe distance from
tanks with extinguishing water and our own pump system.
our tank park in Hamburg (Germany) in the form of two range of different chlorinated liquids in Hamburg.
FORECAST
In 2021, we also invested in a new information system
In Biebesheim we are building a new entrance with a new
for the storage management of drums and similar
weighbridge to reduce the pressure on the intersections on this
packaging. Using this digital system, we can automatically
site. The one-way traffic system will improve safety.
trace the waste streams on the treatment site.
In addition, we are investing in a new storage hall for 5,000 tonnes
The barcodes and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
of waste. The new hall will make it possible to accept
let us see at a glance whether the waste is in the
contaminated soil from various remediation projects and to store
pre-treatment phase, the mix phase or the final treatment
it while it awaits treatment. The storage hall will be put into
phase.
operation in the summer of 2022.