MCI Technology goes Japan

A spin-off company of Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) recently achieved a great success with international reach: The technology company Syncraft will build a wood-fired power plant in Shingu City, Japan, for one billion yen, which will supply 3,900 Japanese households with electricity and heat. The plant is a highly efficient power station based on a floating fixed bed technology developed at MCI together with Syncraft.

The MCI spin-off Syncraft, which emerged from a research project at MCI, now develops, plans and builds state-of-the-art wood-fired power plants throughout Europe. With the cooperation in Japan, another international milestone has been reached. Marcel Huber, founder and CEO of Syncraft, is convinced: "After Fukushima, Japan has recognised that renewable energies are the way of the future. I am pleased that we as a Tyrolean company can make a valuable contribution here."

The well-engineered fixed-suspension bed technology works completely emission-free and achieves a fuel utilisation rate of up to 92 %. In contrast to energy sources such as wind and sun, energy generation from wood chips is stable and calculable. Worldwide, this technology is therefore already considered a pioneer in the field of renewable energies and represents an ideal alternative for forest-rich Japan. Shingo Numa, CEO of Syncraft's Japanese partner Forest Energy, is enthusiastic about the cooperation: "This innovative technology has a great advantage over other suppliers. We are convinced that we will build several more wood-fired power plants in Japan together with Syncraft."

MCI Rector Andreas Altmann is happy for the MCI spin-off Syncraft: "As an Entrepreneurial University®, we support entrepreneurial ideas of our students and graduates and provide start-up assistance when innovative solutions seem particularly promising to us. The fact that the MCI spin-off Syncraft is so successful internationally confirms the MCI's strategy"