EANS-News: A-TEC Industries AG / AE&E Group lands EUR 60 million Australian contract

Order for construction of turnkey biomass fired cogeneration plant

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Subtitle: Order for construction of turnkey biomass fired
cogeneration plant

Wien (euro adhoc) - Vienna, 9 February 2010 - The AE&E Group, which
makes up the Plant Construction Division of A-TEC Industries AG (ISIN
AT00000ATEC9), has won an order from Australia´s second-largest sugar
producer, Mackay Sugar Limited to build a 40 MWe cogeneration plant
in Queensland, Australia. The order is worth a total of about EUR 60
million. The plant, located at the Racecourse Sugar Mill in Mackay,
north-east Queensland, will be fired with biomass derived from sugar
production. It is scheduled for commissioning in early 2013.

The state-of-the-art cogeneration plant will generate renewable
energy and steam from the combustion of bagasse - a waste product
left after sugar cane has been crushed. Additional bagasse will be
supplied from other mills in the group, to extend the period of
operation beyond the crushing season, and any fuel shortfall will be
made up with coal. Surplus steam will be used to generate electricity
for sale via Australia´s renewable energy trading scheme, through a
national energy retailer.

The project will replace an outdated bagasse and coal fired boiler
with a highly efficient new unit. The order is for the design, supply
and installation of a cogeneration steam power plant; comprising a
grate fired boiler, wet scrubber, steam turbine generator, water
cooled condenser, balance of plant, electrical equipment,
construction, commissioning and testing.

"Although the plant engineering market is currently suffering from a
dearth of investment finance, our comprehensive portfolio of products
and services for the thermal power generation and environmental
systems markets is giving us an excellent success rate with those
projects that do go to tender. Following a number of large contract
wins in the fourth quarter of 2009, including an RDF fired steam
generator in Bollnäs, Sweden, and energy from waste plants in
Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris and Vaasa, Finland, we have now landed our
first large order of the new financial year," said AE&E Group CEO
Georg Gasteiger.

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