Case Study
Lyon Sud waste treatment and energy recovery plant
Lyon Sud waste treatment and energy recovery plant | CNIM CNIM Babcock Services is France’s largest company for the modernisation and standards compliance of thermal power equipment. This company in the CNIM Group has been assisting the Metropolitan Lyon authority since 2014 under a four-year contract for preventive maintenance of equipment of the Lyon Sud waste treatment and energy recovery plant. Every day, some 1,100 metric tons of household waste are collected in the streets of the Lyon metropolitan area. That waste is taken by 250 trucks to two energy recovery centres managed by the Metropolitan Lyon authority. One of those two centres is the “UTVE” waste treatment and energy recovery plant (Unité de Traitement et de Valorisation Énergétique) in the Gerland quarter of south Lyon