We launch our new employer brand #YourVoiceMatters.

We receive the order to supply grate and boiler technology for the new waste-to-energy plant in the Polish capital Warsaw. We are thus further expanding our market leadership in Poland.

We also win the contract to supply the new waste-to-energy plant in Wiesbaden. We are responsible for the planning, delivery, installation and commissioning of the new facility in the Hessian capital.

Not only do we celebrate our 90th anniversary, but we also announce our re-entry into the market for thermal treatment of municipal sewage sludge. We also receive an order at the end of the year to supply CFB technology for the first fully biomass-fired power plant in Japan (Sodegaura).

We win the contract to supply technology for the thermal waste treatment plant in Krakow, Poland.

We are supplying the largest single process line in our history for the thermal waste treatment plant in Harlingen, the Netherlands. This thermally treats 280,000 tonnes of municipal and other pre-treated waste per year for the Dutch province of Friesland.

Lurgi Lentjes AG is renamed Lentjes GmbH.
We also conclude licence agreements for hazardous waste incineration based on rotary kiln technology with the Chinese company Zhongtian Environmental Protection Group. Based on this agreement, several plants are built in China, e.g. in Nantong, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Qinghai and Henan.

First installation of a water-cooled reciprocating grate at the Colleferro thermal waste treatment plant, Italy.

We are awarded the contract for the turnkey design and supply of two biomass-fired circulating fluidised bed (CFB) boilers for the Strongoli power plant in Italy. The project was subsidised by the Italian government in order to meet the Kyoto Protocol’s climate change mitigation targets.

In addition, the first contract for the refurbishment of the Shimonoseki waste-to-energy plant in Honshu, Japan is awarded based on our licensing agreement with Kobelco Ecosolutions.

Near London, the two sister plants Beckton and Crossness are coming on stream, burning sewage sludge in mono operation in two fluidised bed boilers. Together, the plants we designed, built and commissioned treat the sewage sludge of about four million inhabitants over an area of about 550 km2.

The new power plant in Gardanne, France, goes into operation as the world’s largest CFB plant. In 2013, we receive the order to comprehensively upgrade the plant and convert it to biomass. By 2034, the plant will have a capacity of 150 MW with a base production of more than 7500 hours per year, which is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption (except for heating purposes) of 440 000 households. This investment reduces the carbon footprint by 600,000 tonnes per year.

The fluidised bed activities of Lurgi AG, Lentjes GmbH and Deutsche Babcock Energietechnik GmbH merge to form LLB Lurgi Lentjes Babcock Energietechnik GmbH. The boiler and flue gas desulphurisation business and other technologies are merged to form Lurgi Lentjes AG.

We enter the market for thermal waste treatment based on grate technology and install the first roller grate in the thermal waste treatment plant in Wuppertal, Germany.

We acquire Standardkessel GmbH.

We plan, build and commission the world’s first commercial CFB boiler in Lünen (circulating fluidised bed). The plant in Lünen is still in operation today as part of the recycling activities of the Remondis Lippe plant and burns a wide range of different waste fuels, proving the flexibility of CFB technology in terms of fuel use and emissions compliance.

In 1955, the Ferdinand Lentjes Foundation was founded, which cared for people with disabilities and was active in animal welfare. The foundation later provided significant support for the construction of the Ferdinand Lentjes House in Düsseldorf, which provided 50 flats for severely disabled people and their families. The house still exists today and focuses on the nursing care and support of people with disabilities.