Record-breaking in two respects is the Shafdan infrastructure project in Israel. The project took almost seven years to go from pre-qualification to contract award by the Zero Waste Ltd. joint venture consisting of G.E.S. Global Environmental Solutions and Shikun & Binui – and it marks the first time that STRABAG Environmental Technology is realising five anaerobic digesters operating in parallel at a single site. Shafdan is one of the largest and most modern mechanical biological waste treatment (MBT) plants in the world, with an annual waste input of approx. 350,000 t, of which 150,000 t will go into the anaerobic digestion plant following upstream processing and sorting. STRABAG is not only supplying all of the waste digestion technology for this project but is also acting separately as the MBT expert for the construction and operation of the entire plant for the client. In addition to this lighthouse project, STRABAG and its French partner Biovalis have secured two projects in different consortium constellations for the group’s LARAN dry fermentation technology. One of the contracts is in Alleriot, France, with GCBAT Bourgogne Franche Comte as consortium partner, while the other project is in Geneva in French-speaking Switzerland, with PoleBio as client and RMIS as consortium partner. In both projects, STRABAG is the consortium partner responsible for the technology aspect, specifically anaerobic digestion and biogas production based on the LARAN technology. With these two new projects, along with the approval awarded in early August for the execution of a previously secured contract in Pierrefonds on the island of Réunion for CNIM (Constructions Industrielles de la Méditerranée), STRABAG Environmental Technology and its office in Nantes (France) have an eventful and exciting time ahead of them. STRABAG Umwelttechnik GmbH can also point to achievements apart from its LARAN fermentation technology. The STRABAG SE subsidiary is particularly pleased about a new order from Russia. In this contract, STRABAG is responsible for the basic engineering as well as the delivery of equipment and control technology for the new tunnel composting plant of a mechanical biological waste treatment (MBT) plant to be built in Krasnoturyinsk in the Urals.