Klean Industries & WOIMA Partner on Modular Waste-to-Value Solutions | MoU Signed

May 9, 2023

Klean Industries and WOIMA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly deploy modular, decentralized waste-to-value solutions, delivering circular energy and material recovery systems for sustainable development worldwide.

Vancouver, Canada — Klean Industries Inc (“Klean”), a leading company providing technologies and solutions to solve the global challenges associated with creating value from waste, is pleased to announce that it has executed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with WOIMA Finland Oy (“WOIMA”) to collaborate on the development of projects that combine integrated waste-to-energy (“WTE”) and resource recovery plant (“RRP”) solutions that recover the resources and energy contained inside end-of-life tires (“ELT”), end-of-life plastics (“ELP”), and municipal solid wastes (“MSW”).

Together, the parties will combine their expertise, specialized skill sets, and technologies in the waste-to-value space to co-develop projects in various strategic regions of the world, providing integrated eco-park solutions for some of the planet’s great waste challenges.

This partnership will leverage both parties’ technology portfolios to target waste streams, representing mutually beneficial solutions that can be rapidly deployed in less time and with fewer costs. Both companies possess unique technologies that complement each other, providing niche solutions to challenging waste streams.

Together, the companies have scalable containerized plant solutions that are prefabricated and preassembled for fast deployment, which guarantees the quality and cost-effectiveness of their respective solutions. Additionally, the advanced automation and standardized maintenance of their solutions ensure high plant reliability and reduced operating costs.

The parties also see value in combining the patent-pending KleanLoop™, a digital blockchain software as a service (“SaaS”) technology platform, to create an added layer of transparency. Klean’s platform can facilitate and enhance resource recovery by recording the entire lifecycle of waste on the blockchain, where it can be traced back to its origin. This provides a level of transparency that can be used to certify the quality and sustainability of energy and recovered resources.

After decades of developing and deploying large-scale waste-to-energy projects and evaluating new opportunities around the globe, both parties believe WOIMA provides a scalable, modular, and leading solution for waste-to-energy projects that are smaller in scale. The challenges of building traditional waste-to-energy plants have been a combination of the cost and time to create such facilities. Additionally, the significant volume of low-value waste needed by traditional WTE projects for the economics to make sense is substantial. Also, when considering the availability of meaningful tipping fees (also known as gate fees) combined with the lower value of the electrical energy from the perspective of the power purchase price are the fundamental reasons why the adoption of waste to energy is slow in developing nations despite the abundance of garbage. The WOIMA solution changes this scenario and makes smaller-scale waste-to-energy projects faster and more cost-effective, where waste volumes, tipping fees, and power prices are lower.

“WOIMA is constantly looking for new delivery partners with the same ideology and ambition level as ours. Klean shares a similar philosophy regarding technical solution designs and has a global market presence with its pyrolysis and gasification processes. We like their business model and how they see the future of waste to value. I am looking forward to harvesting the global waste-to-energy market with the Klean Team.”, commented Henri Kinnunen, CEO of WOIMA Corporation.

“WOIMA’s innovative solutions can change the game of waste to energy and the economics of scale needed to address municipal solid waste challenges on a modular and distributed basis. We are excited by this partnership and believe we can develop new opportunities to convert waste into renewable electricity and heating/cooling. Now hydrogen for use in mobility applications, which removes the need to have long-term Power Purchase Agreements (“PPA”), which have historically been a challenge to negotiate and maintain”, said Jesse Klinkhamer, CEO of Klean Industries Inc.

Learn more about Klean Industries:

Waste-to-Value Made Modular, Scalable & Global

Through its new partnership with WOIMA, Klean Industries is revolutionizing how waste is transformed into energy, fuels, and circular commodities — anywhere in the world. These modular, containerized systems bring advanced recycling, gasification, and pyrolysis capabilities to urban, rural, and remote environments.

Key Advantages of the Partnership:

✅ Scalable waste-to-value units for any location
✅ Containerized design for fast deployment
✅ Circular economy integration with energy and material recovery
✅ Ideal for governments, industries, ports & island nations

Contact Klean Industries to deploy modular waste-to-energy systems, co-develop sustainable infrastructure, or license Klean-WOIMA technologies for your region » GO.

About WOIMA Corporation

WOIMA Corporation is a Finnish supplier of best-in-class waste-to-value products, projects, and services worldwide. It has developed solutions that enable it and its customers to transform and recycle virtually any waste stream into raw materials and energy. WOIMA combines Finnish engineering know-how in waste management with power generation design expertise. These solutions are used in Finland every day. They support the circular economy ideology and ensure that less than 1% of Finland’s waste is in landfills.

Their mission is to improve the quality of life locally and globally and empower people to utilize waste as a commodity. Decades of international project management experience ensure on-time, in-budget, and high-quality WOIMA solution delivery worldwide.

For more information, visit www.woimacorporation.com.

About Klean Industries

Klean Industries (“Klean”) provides best-in-class technologies and solutions in the waste-to-value industry. Our international team of award-winning experts has decades of experience designing, engineering, and manufacturing the highest-quality equipment to convert waste streams into valuable energy and resources. Our unique products and services result from combined knowledge in the design of recycling, resource recovery, waste management, and power generation projects. Our global project management expertise safeguards timelines and budgets, enabling projects to be delivered in less time and at lower costs.

Klean uses proprietary technologies to rapidly develop projects that produce the highest quality fuels, recovered carbon blacks, and green hydrogen from various feedstocks. Our know-how and technical skills provide a specialization in building projects that use advanced thermal technologies such as pyrolysis, gasification, and carbonization, which convert end-of-life tires, waste plastics, and municipal solid waste into domestic energy, sustainable commodities, and new cleantech jobs. We create a symbiosis between waste, resources, and energy. By creating a symbiosis between waste, resources, and energy, Klean Industries is the link between the low carbon, circular economy, and the goal of zero waste to landfill.

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