Rockwell Automation Awarded $11M Contract

An $11M contract has been awarded to Rockwell Automation by Cynar Plc, a leading technology company in the waste-to-energy market. Rockwell Automation have been awarded the contract to design and build a new end-of-life plastic to fuel conversion plant in Bristol, UK for SITA UK ltd, a Cynar customer and partner in the development.

Michael Murray, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Cynar plc said in a statement, "Rockwell Automation strengthens our technology by providing complete design, engineering life cycle maintenance, and local support. We'll have a process technology solution that will enable us to rapidly deploy our technology globally."

"Cynar has developed a technology that converts end-of-life plastics into fuel, our technology represents a unique and profitable way to significantly decrease the amount of end-of-life plastics that are disposed in landfills and incinerators," he added.

"This agreement with Cynar demonstrates Rockwell Automation's ability to deliver scalable, complex solutions on a global level. We're pleased to work with Cynar in an industry that's making the world more sustainable," said Hedwig Maes, president of Rockwell Automation Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

Cynar and Rockwell Automation's Global Solutions teams have been working together for the past two years developing the engineering, modularisation and process improvements of Cynar's waste to end-of-life plastic to fuel conversion plant.

SOURCE: Rockwell Automation Global Solutions