Our history
1898 Vølund A/S founded
1930 Our first waste-fired power plant is built in Gentofte, Denmark
1934 Our first export of waste-to-energy plant
1938 License agreement with Von Roll, Switzerland
1972 Cooperation agreement with NKK, Japan
1980 Our first biomass-fired plant
1991 Cooperation agreement with Halla Group, Korea
1992 Became part of the Italian Ansaldo Group
1998 The Avedøre plant, unit 2 - the world's largest supercritical straw fired boiler plant
2000 Became part of McDermott International, Inc.
2002 The Högdalen waste-to-energy plant - the largest unit yet undertaken by us
History from the beginning (1898)
Highlights from our early history are given below.
