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Pharmaceutical Industry

• Increased Reliability for Utility Systems through Predictive Maintenance Techniques.

United Kingdom - A princely inauguration

• Dalkia's new biomass-fired plant at the Dairy Crest site in Davidstow, North Cornwall, was officially opened HRH Prince Charles.

A new business park near Paris will soon be heated using green energy recovered from data centers

• The first district heating network fuelled by energy recovered from data centers will soon come on stream at the new Val d'Europe business park in Marne-la-Vallée near Paris (France). This is the first application of this technology in France and it opens up promising prospects in terms of energy choices as part of sustainable regional growth.

Canada - Expansion of the heating and cooling network

• The Montreal consortium CHUM Collectif, of which Dalkia is a member, recently won the tender for the Montreal University Hospital Center, which will be built in the middle of the central business district on a 285,000 square meter lot.

China - A new lease of life for Kai Tak Airport

• Dalkia has signed an eight-year design-build-operate (DBO) contract with Hong Kong's government to create a district cooling network as part of the renovation of the old Kai Tak Airport.

Dalkia increases its development in the Baltic states and Russia

• Dalkia, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed a strategic partnership on June 30, 2011 to help Dalkia expand its operations in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.

Poland - Foxconn switches to co-combustion

• In September 2010, Dalkia Poland connected the Taiwan manufacturer's 23,000 square-meter production facility (formerly owned by Dell) to the district heating network of Lodz, Poland's third-largest city, home to 747,152 people.

Caring for severe-burn victims

• After helping build and equip a center for patients suffering from third-degree burns at Herat Hospital in Afghanistan, the Veolia Environnement Foundation has again pooled its resources to assist NGO HumaniTerra International on a similar project in Cambodia.

Singapore - Cooling network provides cornerstone of urban development

• Singapore District Cooling Pte Ltd, a joint venture between Dalkia and Singapore Power, recently completed work to boost the capacity of the Singapore Marina Bay cooling system by 100MW.

General management for exhibition halls in Hungary

Dalkia Energia, a Hungarian subsidiary of Dalkia, has just signed a general management contract with the Hungrexpo Zrt. company, which owns the largest exhibition hall in Hungary. This 3-year contract (renewable for two years) covers maintenance of the installations, overall management of the building and the operational work linked to fairs and other events. Dalkia Energia is employing 27 Hungexpo staff.