AgriKomp

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agriKomp GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 2000
Seat Merkendorf , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Robert Bugar
Number of employees approx. 330 (2016)
sales 85 million euros (2015)
Branch Biogas plants
Website www.agrikomp.com

The agriKomp GmbH develops, designs and assembles operational biogas plants for the agricultural sector and in the entire European working space. By the end of 2016, over 850 biogas plants with a total output of 250 MW el had been installed worldwide . The group employs around 330 people in five countries. The company's headquarters are in Merkendorf in Middle Franconia . The basis for the business is both the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) in Germany and other promotional measures in the renewable energy segment in other countries. In addition to pure plant construction, the business areas also extend to repowering measures and services for the biogas plant industry. The managing director Robert Bugar runs the company together with the authorized signatories Elisabeth Lehmann and Frank Seeger.

history

The company was founded in 2000 by Robert Bugar and Michael Engelhardt. In the early 1990s, they dealt with the production and energetic use of biogas from liquid manure , manure and renewable raw materials . In 2001 the first biogas plant was put into operation. Five years later , the first biogas plant in Kenya was built for training purposes together with a local partner and GIZ . In order to be able to carry out the fermentation substrate analysis in-house, a biogas laboratory was also set up. In 2007 a special separator technology was developed and in 2008 the biogas plant slurry plant was introduced at the EuroTier trade fair, which in 2016 served as a test plant for a scientific study by the University of Bonn . In 2009 the company received the Middle Franconia district's innovation award. In 2011, the company was ranked 6th among all renewable energy producers in the Best Companies DLG benchmark . In 2013, the first biogas plant was built in Canada and a stake in SCHNELL Motoren AG, as well as being voted 3rd place among all renewable energy producers in the benchmark best company DLG. The agriSelect biogas plant was added to the product range of the low power class up to 75 kW el in 2014.

Holdings and partners

The company has the following subsidiaries:

  • agriKomp France, sales and service company in France, founded in 2006 in Soings-en-Sologne ( Loir-et-Cher ), 60 employees in 2018
  • agriKomp Ltd., sales and service company in United Kingdom, founded in 2010
  • agriKomp Ltd. UK, sales and service company in Ireland, founded in 2010

The company has the following affiliated companies or works with the following companies:

  • ServiceUnion GmbH and its subsidiaries
  • agriKomp Slovakia sro, sales and service company in Slovakia, founded in 2010
  • agriKomp Bohemia sro, sales and service company in the Czech Republic, founded in 2006
  • agriKomp ENERGY doo, sales and service company in Croatia, founded in 2016
  • agriKomp Polska, sales and service company in Poland, founded in 2010

Products

The complete systems include biogas plants with an electrical power of 50 kW el to 2.5 MW el caused by the power-heat coupling principle , overall efficiencies reach up to 85%. In addition, biomethane systems with a feed rate of 125 Nm³ / h, digestate processing and processing systems for refining digestate are sold. In addition, components for biogas plants are manufactured and sold. These are separator / separation technology for fermentation products and liquid manure, agitator technology for mixing the fermentation substrates, modular container construction technology, biogas storage membranes, gas processing systems and feeding technology to convey substrates into the fermenter. Since 2015, the company has also been developing combined heat and power units with an output range from 50 kW el to 350 kW el and operates its own production facility at the Merkendorf location. The business field of services includes the Europe-wide plant, electrical, laboratory and CHP service as well as planning and approval of biogas projects. In 2016, the service and after-sales area in the main market of Germany was expanded with the entry into the ServiceUnion's service network, which is represented throughout Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report = " http://www.agrikomp.com " /
  2. ↑ Annual report = " http://www.bundesanzeiger.de " /
  3. ^ Ansbach commercial register extract. In: www.online-handelsregister.de. Online-Handelsregister.de, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2018 .
  4. ^ Tobias Otte: GIZ information event - agriKomp - Kenya project. (PDF) In: GIZ.de. Society for International Cooperation, 2014, accessed July 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Slurry works - mobile biogas plant ( Memento from June 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Frauke Pia Christin Müller, Wolfgang Büscher: Investigations into the effectiveness of small biogas plants in combination with milk production . Ed .: Dipl.-Ing. agr. Frauke Pia Christin Müller. University of Bonn, Bonn 2016, p. 100 ( uni-bonn.de ).
  7. ↑ agriKomp awarded for innovations . In: top agrar online . ( topagrar.com [accessed July 3, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Canadian company building AD demonstration facility | Biomassmagazine.com. Accessed August 17, 2017 .
  9. ↑ PresseBox (c) 2002–2017: agriSelect - New small biogas plant concept for livestock owners from agriKomp. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  10. ↑ agriKomp: un développement local. lanouvellerepublique.fr, November 14, 2018, accessed on November 20, 2018 (French). .
  11. ↑ http://www.serviceunion.de/. Retrieved on July 20, 2017 (German).