MT-Energie defies the trend of the biogas industry

MT-Energie GmbH & Co. KG, a leading manufacturer of biogas plants, was delighted with its results for 2007. As in previous years, the EBIT are above 10%.

The company located in Lower Saxony is growing steadily and has been able to increase its market share, which is in sharp contrast to the general negative trend within the industry. In 2007, MT-Energie installed more than 30 MW_el and increased its annual sales by 40% to over 60 million euros.

The outlook of the managing directors Bodo Drescher (sales) and Torben Brunckhorst (financials) is as follows:

The German market will be affected by the implementation of the revised EC regulations and the Gas Grid Access Ordinance. MT-Energie is well prepared for these new market conditions. With its standardised 2 MW_el biogas plant, MT-Energie already offers a unit with a capacity that will become even more important in the coming years. This type of plant will become the industry standard for projects with gas treatment, as it can be erected at very low investment costs.

In addition to the currently available plant sizes, there will be an increased demand in the agricultural sector for "slurry pit" plants of the 150 kW class. For this market, MT-Energie offers ideal solutions consisting of low-cost standard modules.

As regards its international business, the company will continue to extend its activities in countries where MT-Energie is already successfully trading. By building reference plants, the company intends to achieve a sustainable market penetration, following the company's success in Germany. For 2008, it is expected that already more than 30% of the company's turnover will be achieved in European target countries other than Germany. Several MT-Energie projects have already been successfully implemented in Italy, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The next construction projects are scheduled for Spain and France.

The year 2008 will thus be decisive as regards the company's course towards a successful future. With its new plant in Zeven, MT-Energie will meet the logistical requirements for its international business activities. The new facility will also provide sufficient production capacity for gas processing plants based on BCM^® technology.

The growth of the company has also lead to changes regarding personnel. Dr. Holger Schmitz will join the management team on 1 April 2008. He will be responsible for project planning and continued expansion of the export trade.        

Dr. Schmitz has worked in the biogas industry for many years, his most recent position was as a member of the board of Biogas Nord AG in Bielefeld, and is a recognised expert in the field. Mr Soehnke Neumann, an experienced manager in the biogas field, will join the marketing and project development team of MT-Energie.

Innovation of biomethane by MT-Energie

Technological quantum leap through the processing of biomethane by the procedure of BCM®

Rockstedt – 10.01.2007. With effect of 1 January 2007, MT-Energie GmbH & Co.KG acquired the license rights for the elaboration of a gas processing technology in accordance with the BCM® procedure for the European Union and North America. The license comprises construction and sales of the non-pressure BCM® procedure of Mess DGE GmbH (Dr.Ing. Günther Engineering) from Wittenberg for the processing of biogas with the quality of natural gas. Thanks to its long-year experience in the area of environmental protection and process engineering in the chemical large-scale industry, Mess DGE GmbH has developed that new kind of gas processing technology towards implementation.

Thanks to that innovative gas cleaning technology, MT-Energie will further expand its market position. The conventional processing technologies neither work without pressure nor guarantee such purity for the methane of the prepared gas. Thus, a lower boundary level of a 98% of methane contents of in the prepared gas is finally practicable.

As proofed in the first implemented plant of MT-Energie , the cleaning by means of gas scrubbing is carried out with an extremely low methane slip (< 0.1%) compared with conventional procedures. Furthermore, thanks to the non-pressure procedure, the plant can be very cost-effectively operated. Therefore, the discussion about gas quality, economic and ecologic efficiency will get a new dimension.

The cleaning of biogas with quality of natural gas and its inclusion as biomethane in the already existing net of natural gas will become the key process of the biogas technology. Here, the reliable technology and the total processing costs as a result of the purchase price and the operation of the plant are the decisive factors. That is the great strength of that innovative procedure.

Thanks to the license rights for the sales and construction of the gas processing technology for the EU and North America, MT-Energie can extend its already renowned range of offer by a significant component. As in the case of the complete biogas plant, for the gas processing, the customer has now also the opportunity to acquire everything from one single source.

PROFILE of MT-Energie: MT-Energie GmbH& Co.KG designs innovative, efficient and economic biogas plants, thanks to its 11 years of experience of biogas. Starting with the idea up the successful continuous operation of the biogas plant – the customer will receive an efficient service. In the year 2007, the company will further expand its market position with more than 200 employees.

In 2006 alone, MT-Energie carried out the new installation of 24 MW, by means of the construction of 32 new plants and the expansion of existing plants. For the year 2007 there are further 60 biogas projects in the pipeline with a total power of installation of approx. 40 MW. At the same time, there are already contracts for the first plants in Italy, Hungary and Czech Republic.

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Bodo Drescher

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