Catching up with EIT

The first stop on the itinerary was to catch up with our trusted distributors for the region EIT. Derek met with EIT owners Mohamed AlSaif and Mohamed Ghefari, alongside Barkat Rajani and the wider team based in Saudi who have been instrumental in bringing Addfield into the Middle East, it was a great opportunity to sit down with the team to discuss previous projects and how we can continue to support them going forward.

These kinds of visits are often seen as unnecessary, but they matter greatly and offer much more value than simple phone or video calls. Maintaining strong relationships with our partners all over the world is just as much a priority as providing robust and reliable incinerators and cremators.

Derek was able to experience the famous Saudi hospitality, with traditional dishes such as Mandi Rice Platters and mint leaf tea. There is a whole other world outside of the UK and visiting worldwide distributors and partners helps us understand their cultures and be involved, that way we know how we can help customers within that area of the world even better.

“The team at EIT are exactly the kind of people we want representing our brand. We have worked together for many years now and have collaborated on some really exciting projects. On top of that Barkat and the team have visited us many times and also joined us exhibitions such as WHX (formerly Arab Health). They are a real asset to us at Addfield.” – Derek Carr, Managing Director.

A region investing in its future

Saudi Arabi is currently going through one of the largest developments, through investment lead by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), major initiatives like NEOM and further GIGA projects are transforming the region’s infrastructure at a scale that we cannot ignore.

Jeddah is home to the King Fahd Fountain, the tallest fountain in the world, and with plans for the Jeddah Tower which is expected to be the tallest building in the world. Across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, these investments are driving growth in tourism, international business and creating more jobs for residents.

With this growth, comes an increase in responsibility to stay sustainable through waste management practices. As Saudi continues to invest in these improvements, it’s only fitting that Addfield’s world-leading incinerators are available to support that growth.

C200 in action onsite

Derek and the EIT team met with several organisations working with the National Centre for Waste Management (MWAN), who are responsible for setting waste management standards across the region.

One of the highlights was visiting REVIVA, a government owned waste management site operating under Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC). SIRC plays a huge part in Saudi’s goals for a sustainable waste management future. Operating across the whole Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, they needed the equipment that can keep up with the waste load and so the Addfield C200 waste incinerator and filtration system was installed at the site in 2024 and continues to support disposing of waste generated across Saudi.

Supporting key industries across Saudi Arabia

Working alongside EIT, Addfield continues to support a wide range of sectors across Saudi Arabia including:

• Hazardous waste management
• Port waste facilities
• Airports
• Remote locations
• Blue chip companies
• Food and beverage industries
• Police departments
• Hospitals and healthcare facilities

At Addfield, we don’t just supply the equipment. We are proud of our emphasis on servicing, maintenance and long-term operations. Regular visits helps us fulfill those, whether it be from our engineers or our sales team.

Looking forward to the future

As Saudi continues its journey of growth and development the demand for reliable waste management solutions increases. Through our partnership with EIT, Addfield is proud to play a part in helping organisations across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia manage waste safely, efficiently and sustainably.

For Addfield, taking the time to fly across the globe gives us valuable insight to how we are supporting waste management issues and even farm biosecurity throughout the world. When you see a machine you helped build operating in real world situations, you come back with a renewed sense of purpose.

If you would like to find out more about Addfield’s medical or clinical incineration range, or explore how our machine could work for your facilities, get in touch with our team today at sales@addfield.com.

While wood burners are not a modern invention, they are becoming increasingly popular again and can be found in many homes in the 21st century, either as a fireplace or a stove. Wood burners, just as the name implies, burns wood in order to generate heat, and the unit usually consists of just a combustion chamber and chimney.

If we travel back in time to when wood burning fires were at the centre of the home, with the whole family crowded around the stove to warm up and cook, you can imagine the smoke filling the room!

Shortly after, a stove/chamber was designed to hold the fire in the corner of the room, followed by the invention of the chimney, to vent the smoke out of the room.

Even today with modern upgrades, it has been recorded how bad a wood burner can be for the environment, with the emissions released from using them, especially if multiple houses are using them for hours on end to heat their homes or cook their food.

Incineration and cremation may sound similar to wood burning, as both include burning items in a combustion chamber at high temperatures, but that is where the similarity ends.

While incinerators and cremators may not be as old as wood burners, we still have many years of development that has led to the most environmentally sustainable technology designed, throughout the whole Addfield range.

Let’s take pet cremation for example. Pet cremation as a business has boomed immensely over the years with many industries diversifying their business to include pet and horse cremation services. Many businesses will install a pet cremator in residential areas or on their own land if available. When people hear the word ‘cremator’ they may be concerned about what the process is doing to the environment, especially if they live near where the cremator is installed. We are often approached by concerned residents, and we are able to put their minds at ease.

A typical wood burner is a fairly simple system. It consists of one chamber and a chimney with logs and other materials being thrown in and ignited at temperatures fluctuating from 360°C/680°F to a peak of around 600°C/1112°F. These temperatures are not hot enough to produce clean gases. The gases, smoke and odours produced during combustion are released directly into the atmosphere without any cleaning. This is why you will see smoke billowing from chimneys and smell the distinct odour that comes from it in some residential areas.

In comparison, all Addfield incinerators and cremators are purposely built to handle a whole range of waste types safely and environmentally friendly. The pet and agricultural range burn at temperatures as high as 800°C/1470°F in the primary chamber, some equipped with additional hot hearth technology, heating the chamber from above and below to ensure full cremation of the animal. Whilst our medical and more complex machines burn as high as 850°C/1562°F. These temperatures are high enough to release cleaner gases into the secondary chamber.

Not included on a wood burner, the secondary chamber acts as a filtration gas cleaning system, with temperatures reaching 980°C/1800°F for the pets and animal machines, 1100°C/2012°F on the medical side. A 2 second retention time in the secondary chamber is the time the flue gases take to travel through the secondary chamber to ensure complete cleaning.

The secondary chamber always reaches operational temperature before anything in the primary chamber starts to burn, so any gases released from the cremation or incineration are treated from the very start of the process. The machine will never start the burning process until it can safely clean the gases.

Where a wood burner is designed to released heat out of the chamber, it is quite the opposite for an Addfield machine. Each chamber is lined with an advanced brick refractory, our alumina infused fire brick holds and releases the heat back into the chamber, behind the brick we have two further layers made up of insulation brick and board, these layers block the heat from escaping meaning it can only go one way from the fire brick and that’s back into the chamber. This means no heat is lost from the chamber, completing the cremation using 40% less fuel and is significantly safer to operate compared to alternative solutions.

This technology is what makes Addfield machines smoke and odour free, the most you are likely to see coming out of the chimney is a faint heat shimmer, which is very miniscule compared to the amount of smoke from a wood burner.

Even with the latest regulations that came into effect in 2022, meaning that all wood burners had to meet certain environmental standards and guidelines, Addfield incinerators and cremators are proven significantly more environmentally friendly due to the added filtration of the secondary chamber and brick lined refractory.

Addfield has always prided itself on its accessibility and dedication so if you have any question on the real world impact of one of our machines in your neighbourhood, please feel free to reach out to us at sales@addfield.com

Similar to the COVID-19 outbreak, MPOX has travelled across continents, infecting many countries and causing a strain on the hospitals and healthcare system, and as of late 2024, has now reach the United Kingdom, with hundreds of confirmed cases. In DRC, many young children have contracted the disease and doctors & nurses are working tirelessly to see to every patient. Vaccines have been donated from many disease control foundations. One thing the healthcare system shouldn’t have to worry about is the medical waste created that could potentially spread the disease to more people.

The safest and most effective way to dispose of medical waste, and ensure that no germs will be spread is through incineration. Addfield’s medical waste incinerator range, particularly the MP machines, ensure that complete incineration has taken place and eliminates any disease that gloves, syringes or masks may have carried.

We have been helping tackle global problems just like this for many years and worked with many different international aid agencies to provide the most sustainable incineration technology to developing countries, just like the MP200 medical pathological waste incinerators that we are producing for the DRC specifically to help deal with this growing problem.

As we face future health threats, sustainable medical waste disposal will be a crucial part of global healthcare. By using efficient technologies like Addfield’s MP200, countries can better protect their populations and prevent diseases from spreading further. If you want to learn more about our medical incinerator range, please get in touch today or visit: https://addfield.com/machine-categories/medical-incinerators/