Somos FCC - Nº5

With the arrival of FCC, Houston will significantly improve its recycling ha- bits. Residents will be will be able to recycle glass and many other frac- tions that are not recycled today. This material will be processed at the treat- ment plant that the Company will be building in the city that will feature the most modern sorting and classifying equipment. Houston City Council has awarded FCC Environmental Services, the American environmental services subsidiary of the FCCGroup, the con- tract to design, finance, build and ope- rate the plant to sort, recover andmar- ket all the city’s recyclable materials. The expected contract value is more than 250 million dollars, including the sale of recovered materials from Houston and from third parties, thou- gh the cost for the city will not exceed 36.8 million dollars. This contract is awarded in a stra- tegic enclave since Houston, with a population of some 2.3 million, is the fourth most populated city in the USA and will soon be the third, according to growth predictions. With this con- tract, FCC consolidates its strong and rapid implantation in the USAwhere it already has contracts to the value of around 900 million dollars and serves a population of more than eight million Americans. The experience of a major Company FCC has broad experience in similar plants, currently in operations, in va- rious countries around the world after building more than 50 facilities, similar to the planned facility in Houston, in- cluding one near the city of Dallas. The Houston facilities will occupy an area of six hectares with a covered area of about 11,000 square metres. The plant will be able to treat 120,000 tonnes per year with a maximum ca- pacity of 145,000. The fully automated processing line features the latest te- chnologies for sorting materials. The environment From left to right: Tony Emilio, Municipal Services Director; Andrea Rodríguez, Technical Director; and Íñigo Sanz, CEO. B U S I N E S S 21 B U S I N E S S