ABB Power Grids and Stena Recycling in circular cooperation around transformers
Sweden: ABB Power Grids and Stena Recycling, Sweden, have signed a long-term cooperation agreement on recycling of transformers.
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Sweden: ABB Power Grids and Stena Recycling, Sweden, have signed a long-term cooperation agreement on recycling of transformers.
“At ABB Power Grids, we are committed to sustainable development. We are happy that with our collaboration with Stena Recycling, we are able to offer our customers a sustainable solution for transformer recycling with a much reduced carbon footprint,” said Bruno Melles, Managing Director of ABB Power Grids Transformers Business Line.
Each year around 200 power transformers are sold on the Swedish market. Most of them replace an old transformer. With Stena recycling, ABB Power Grids will undertake the disposal of old transformers, reusing or recycling about 99 % of the material as per Stena’s recycling guidelines. This will comprise 64 % material recycling, 35 % clean, low carbon incineration for energy and the balance 1 % as scrap. Almost all the recycling will be done locally in Sweden itself.
“We can recycle all types of transformers; size, brand, oil filled, or dry, it does not matter. Through our large network of facilities and specialist knowledge, we offer professional help in waste issues across the country. Thanks to our geographical spread and local presence, we create the conditions for efficient logistics and handling with the least possible environmental impact,” says Fredrik Pettersson, CEO Stena Recycling.
However, the collaboration between ABB Power Grids and Stena Recycling does not stop at recycling of old transformers, but also includes designing new ones. A circular approach is important in product development, and the agreement therefore includes joint design work to ensure that the transformers of the future are designed with the right conditions for recycling and reuse.
For ABB Power Grid’s customers, the new partnership agreement with Stena Recycling means a total solution: When investing in a new energy-efficient transformer with low losses, they are now ensured of dismantling and recycling of the old transformer with the least possible environmental impact.
Source: ABB