Slovenia's Gorenje Waste Management Unit Opens 2.7 Mln Euro Solid Fuel Production Line

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), September 13 (SeeNews) – Slovenian household appliances maker Gorenje said its waste management company Gorenje Surovina has launched a 2.7 million euro ($3.5 million) line for the processing of waste materials into solid fuel.

The full capacity of the production line will be 42,000 tons of solid fuel a year as of mid-April 2011, Gorenje's press office said in a statement made available to SeeNews last week.

The new capacity is located in Maribor, where Gorenje Surovina is headquartered.

“The plant is an important additional element to our capacities and represents a solution for a significant part of waste collected that is being given new value by being used for energy," the director of Gorenje Surovina, Jure Fiser, said in the statement.

Producing solid fuel from waste has a number of positive effects for the environment as well as for the Slovenian industry and people, since it enables extracting Slovenian energy sources from waste where they were being imported so far, Fiser said.

Gorenje Surovina (www.surovina.si) specialises in the collection, transport, sorting and treatment of waste.

In addition to home appliances, the Velenje-based Gorenje Group (www.gorenjegroup.com) is also active in environmental protection, energy and services.

Gorenje Group aims to become the largest and the best company in the ecology industry in southeast Europe. Thus, in the next strategic period Gorenje will be focusing also on ecology besides household products, Gorenje president and CEO Franjo Bobinac said in the statement.

Across the rest of SEE, the group's environment, energy and services division has operations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia.

Gorenje shares were traded down 0.54% at an average daily price of 12.85 euro on the Ljubljana bourse on Monday.

($ = 0.7787 euro)

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