Canada

Last half year I supported Orgaworld Canada on business development in the Industrial Commercial Institution (ICI) waste market. Therefore I'd made market analyses and visit a lot of companies of the Food Chain in Ontario / Canada together with marketing manager Travis Woollings.
We also visited with representatives of Weston Food and Loblaw Orgaworld Greenmills in Amsterdam and explained the working of this modern bio refinery plant.

University Masterclasses Ukraine

Last year I educated three Masterclasses 'Waste as an energy source':

Lutsk State Technical University: 23 April
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: 25 April
Odessa National Polytechnic University: 27 April

The Master Class Sustainable energy for Ukraine organized by Saxion University (professor Johan Wempe) and Netherlands Ukrainian Sustainable Energy Platform (NUSEP). 
Between April and June the participants worked in teams on an assignment. 
Each team of five students had to present a business case. From the moment of matchmaking with my students till the final presentations they were very enthusiastic about the waste theme.
Recently I'd get a reaction of one the students that he wants to be graduated on my theme!

Trade mission Warsaw

Poland is being the only country that seems immune to the economic meltdown on our continent. As the Eurozone’s economies declined by 4,3% in 2009, Poland grew by 1,6%. Growth peaked to more than 4% last year. Even next year the prognosis is 3,5%. And with only two borders to cross, it is no wonder that Dutch companies are increasingly discovering the vast opportunities this 40 million people market provides. At present more than 1.500 Dutch enterprises, large and small, are active in Poland – taking the Netherlands to the top 10 of investors in Poland. 
I joined a successful trade mission 22-24 May 2012 together with Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister for Infrastructure and the Environment. Together with business relatives of Tebodin Poland and Imtech Poland I visited a meet and greet reception with the minister.

Holland Turkey Business Forum: 400 years diplomatic relations

PwC, ING, Agentschap NL en Fenedex met hun partners organiseren op 17 april in de Passenger terminal in Amsterdam een Business Forum over de 400 jaar diplomatieke relatie tussen Nederland en Turkije.

Het seminar is ter ere van het bezoek van President Gül aan Nederland van 17 t/m 19 april 2012. Het doel van het seminar is om de bilaterale economische relatie tussen Nederland en Turkije te versterken en te intensiveren. President Gül woont samen met een delegatie van ministers en CEO’s uit Turkije het seminar bij. Van Nederlandse zijde zijn Prins Willem-Alexander en Prinses Maxima aanwezig.

's-Morgens neem ik namens Orgaworld ook deel aan het matchmakingsprogramma. Kijk voor meer informatie op: http://www.hollandturkey.com/

Orgaworld

In 2012 I was a Since Representative of Orgaworld in Poland and Canada (Ontario).

Orgaworld is a young innovative and fast growing international organization in the field of Organic Waste Processing. Its focus is to process Source Separated Organics, ICI waste, Residential Waste and MSW into valuable end-uses such as energy, fuels and compost products. Orgaworld is using its proprietary technologies: wet and dry anaerobic digestion, tunnel bio-stabilization, and aerobic (tunnel) composting.

Orgaworld forms part of Shanks Group Plc. (www.shanks.co.uk). Orgaworld designs, builds, owns and operates all of its facilities in the Netherlands, UK and Canada.

The company currently is able to process > 1 mio tonnes of organic waste annually and is seeking further expansion in North America, Europe and Asia.

USP: Orgaworld Designs, Builds, Owns and Operates all of its facilities and does not need specific processing technology suppliers to establish its business.

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Kamyanets-Podilsky test MSW

Last week about 500kg waste of Kamyanets-Podilsky in Oekraine were analysed. All the city waste is landfilled till now and the analyse is part of the feasibility study on waste to energy. About 80 kgs were construction waste and the rest municipal solid waste (380kg per person).
Today the first stage of the pilot on separate collection starts. An unique moment. Next month we'll evaluate it and also will introduce organic waste separation for appartments.
The organic household waste will be used for biogasproduction. Therefore a business (base) case was sent to interested parties for financing.