A brief presentation about Kalundborg Symbiosis

2. Kalundborg
• Danish City located at the northwesten coast of Zealand
• Has a population of at least 16.000 people
• Home to the Largest coal-fired power station in Denmark

3. ?
What’s so special about
Kalundborg?

4. Kalundborg has the world’s first
working Industrial Symbiosis

5. Kalunborg symbiosis creates an
Industrial Ecosystem, in which, a
waste from one company can be
used as a resource by the others
in a closed cycle.

6. Kalundborg’s Industrial Park Timeline
The first
conduit pipes
constructed by
Statoil
•1961
Gyproc use
excess gas from
Statoil for their
resource
•1972
Dong Energy’s
plant
connected to
Statoil water
pipe
•1973
Novo Nordisk
and Statoil
constructed
steam supply
pipelines.
•1982
The term
“Industrial
Symbiosis”
used to
describe the
collaboration
•1989

7. Kalundborg Symbiosis Achievements
Waste Recycled to Raw
Materials
Lessened
Environmental Impacts
Coal Consumption
Reduction
Energy Savings
Water Preservation