Who's SNB?

N.V. Slibverwerking Noord-Brabant (SNB) processes treatment sludge for its shareholders and for external clients. The SNB shareholders are Waterschap Aa en Maas, Waterschap Brabantse Delta, Waterschap De Dommel, Waterschap Rivierenland, Waterschap Regge en Dinkel and Waterschap Scheldestromen i.o. The incineration installation at the Moerdijk industrial estate processes more than 400,000 tons of sludge cake in four parallel incineration lines every year.

The SNB sludge incineration installation is one of the largest and one of the most environmentally friendly in Europe. SNB wants its business operations to function as an example for other countries, society and the government. It guarantees continuity in sludge incineration, with maximum respect for people and the environment, at the lowest possible social cost.

In its efforts to achieve optimum performance SNB is constantly searching for new possibilities to save the environment. This involves studying the entire water and sludge chain. SNB makes its expertise available to other players, with the goal being to achieve optimum social benefit along the entire chain.

Minimal environmental burden and maximum cost control are at the heart of SNB business operations. This is the basis on which SNB works on minimising the energy consumption and the (harmful) emissions from its installation. The re-use of remnant materials is also a subject to which a great deal of attention is paid. An example of this is the recovery of phosphate from the waste stream. SNB is developing even more initiatives, such as the recycling of the CO2 emissions by neighbouring company Omya. Omya is a major Swiss player in the world market for calcium products. The company has an office at the Moerdijk industrial estate, adjacent to SNB.