The team
The project involves several key stakeholders:
The sponsor: Merl Solar Technologies GmbH
An Austrian company operating in renewable energy with extensive experience in various projects in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, such as the 20 MWe Photovoltaic installation in Kahone Senegal and the electrification project of 41 Senegalese off the grid villages. MERL has registered the SPV and is the main sponsor the project.
Hannes Merl – CEO Merl Solar Technolgies GmbH
Arona Diop – General Director Merl Sénégal
Witech Africa, established in 1970, is one of the few African companies specializing in Energy Valorization based in Sandton, South Africa. They are part of the Witech Group based in Hong-Kong (Note : rajouter ça dans la version Française SVP ) with strategic offices in France, Bulgaria, and operations across countries like Senegal, Ghana, Gabon, Nigeria, Eastern Europe, and France. Witech Africa aims to facilitate sustainable and profitable energy valorization technologies throughout Africa. The team at Witech is overseeing the project’s co-development and ensuring coordination among various stakeholders, particularly in waste and technology sectors. Witech is also a sponsor of the project and its lead project developer.
Kevin Gesseau – CEP of Witech Africa and Witech Group
Éric Raynaud – CEO of Witech France
For more than 100 years, MARTIN GmbH has been one of the world’s pioneers in the energy recovery of waste. Born in Germany, MARTIN technology today equips more than 1,200 treatment lines around the world, making the Group one of the historical references in the Waste-to-Energy sector in terms of performance, reliability and sustainability.
With the acquisition of LAB S.A., one of the European leaders in flue gas treatment, MARTIN now covers all the key technologies of an energy recovery plant: waste combustion, energy recovery and flue gas treatment.
MARTIN technologies have proven themselves in the most demanding markets. Present in hundreds of installations in Europe, they also equip the energy recovery plant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which remains to this day the only installation of this type in operation in Africa, as well as several reference installations in the Middle East and Asia, notably in the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Vietnam and India.
Created in 2017 with the CNIM Group, a historical partner of MARTIN in Europe, MARTIN Technologies Private Limited, formerly CNIM MARTIN Private Limited, is now fully integrated into the MARTIN Group. Based in India, it brings the expertise and technologies of MARTIN and LAB — incineration, boilers and flue gas treatment — to the high-growth markets of Asia and beyond, adapting them to local specificities without ever compromising on the Group’s standards of performance, reliability and sustainability.
Thanks to the industrialization in India of its technologies and equipment, MARTIN thus combines proven European technology, world-class engineering and local industrial competitiveness, in order to provide emerging markets with high-performance, reliable Waste-to-Energy solutions adapted to their needs.
The MARTIN reverse-acting grate incineration technology (“Reverse-Acting Grate”) is particularly suited to the characteristics of the waste encountered in Senegal, notably its low calorific value and high heterogeneity. Proven under comparable conditions in numerous installations around the world, this technology has thus been selected for the Touba project to ensure stable and reliable combustion adapted to the local characteristics of the waste.
Denis BAUER – CEO CNIM-MARTIN Private Limited
MARTIN’s Team
The EPC: CNEEC (China National Electric Engineering Company Ltd)
CNEEC, a state-owned enterprise under SINOMACH, has a successful track record, including constructing a large Waste to Energy plant in Ethiopian actually the first W2E plant of the continent. They have collaborated with CNIM MARTIN on multiple projects. For Touba, CNEEC is responsible for delivering a comprehensive fully wrap EPC solution.
The local Contractor: Ecosalubre
Ecosalubre, a Senegalese company based in Touba, specializes in integrated waste management activities such as collection, recycling, sorting, street cleaning, equipment supply, and construction of waste management facilities. They are an essential local participant in the project co-waste collection company contracted to SONAGED.
Cheikh Ibrahim Mbacké – CEO Ecosalubre
The Waste Management Operator: SONAGED
The SONAGED is a new national company responsible for waste management, replacing the Solid Waste Coordination and Management Unit (UCG). They focus on waste collection, recycling, and valorization, partnering with the private sector and local authorities to implement the national waste management strategy. SONAGED is the site concessionor, the main waste feed supplier and signature to the PPP.
The Energy Partner : Senelec
In accordance with Law No. 98-29 of April 14, 1998, regarding the electricity sector, SENELEC has a monopoly on electricity transmission throughout the national territory. Its network is well developed, including in the municipalities of Mbacké and Touba.
Also, SENELEC boasts a strong financial position compared to other national operators in the region. They also want and encourage a better energy mix.
