Fors A/S, the utility company serving the municipalities of Holbæk, Lejre and Roskilde, inaugurated on Friday the upgraded Svinninge wastewater treatment plant featuring Veolia’s groundbreaking Cella™ technology. The plant is the first full-scale facility in the world to deploy the innovative biofilm technology that offers a sustainable, compact and energy-efficient solution for wastewater treatment.
Located in Svinninge, about 60 kilometers west of Copenhagen, the plant was upgraded to increase capacity by 40% up to 6,300 population equivalents while meeting stringent effluent requirements. Two Veolia Water Technologies subsidiaries ‒ Krüger A/S, a Danish water and wastewater treatment specialist, and AnoxKaldnes, a world-leading supplier of biological water purification solutions headquartered in Sweden ‒ teamed up to develop and implement the world-first solution, working with Fors and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency through the Environmental Technology Development and Demonstration Program (MUDP).
“Fors is proud to be part of this exciting collaboration and to show this state-of-the-art facility and future of wastewater services to the world,” said Henrik Correll, COO of Fors. “Looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint is part of our DNA and something we work towards every day. It is of tremendous importance that we seek to look at new solutions through smart partnerships, of which this project is a great example.”
