Madrid, 23rd June, 2016. The City of Rowlett (Texas) has awarded FCC a contract for the collection of all the residential and commercial solid waste from the City with an estimated value of $32.5M. The contract is for an initial period of seven years with an option to extend up to three years. The total volume of the contract has the potential to reach a backlog of $70M, factoring in franchised roll-off services and expected growth in the City.
Rowlett is a suburban town with 60,000 inhabitants located in the Northeast side of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Following this contract award, FCC, through FCC Environmental Services, its American subsidiary, will manage all the residential and commercial solid waste and recyclable materials from the City. Nearly 5,000 tons of recyclables collected annually from Rowlett will be processed and marketed at FCC’s newly inaugurated Materials Recycling Facility in the City of Dallas. Last year the facility received a P3 Bulletin gold award for the Best Waste/Energy/Water project, at a ceremony in Las Vegas.
This is the sixth contract signed by FCC in the State of Texas. FCC was recently awarded two significant contracts in the State of Florida, bringing the total to eight new municipal contracts within the US in less than three years. The company is also active in the Oil and Gas industry, treating the waste from the exploration and production activities in the Gulf of Mexico at its two facilities located in Theodore, AL and Port Fourchon, LA.
The backlog on municipal contracts awarded in the last three years to FCC in the US now totals $630M.
About FCC
FCC Group is a world leader in providing services to citizens. The environmental services division of the company, has been active for over 100 years and has built its success on a commitment to innovation and to helping cities become smarter, more sustainable and more socially conscious. It currently serves over 59 million people in more than 5,000 municipalities across 13 countries. It has a network of more than 200 recycling and recovery facilities that process in excess of 24 million tonnes every year as a resource, including 10 existing waste to energy projects with a capacity over 2.6 million tons and 300 MW power output.
FCC’s backlog in environmental services was 11.152 billion euros at the end of 2016, with the business area also accounting for 52.6% of FCC Group’s EBITDA. The company continues to grow internationally, and last year started work on the construction of the Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre in Edinburgh & Midlothian, as well as officially opening an EfW plant in Buckinghamshire. At the end of 2016 FCC secured several municipal waste collection contracts in Barrow-in-Furness borough council, Cumbria (United Kingdom), and in the city of Prostějov in the Czech Republic. In 2017 it has been awarded its recycling contracts in Garland and Mesquite in the state of Texas in the US, with the recyclable materials due to be processed at the newly opened Materials Recycling Facility in Dallas. In June 2017 Envirecover, FCC’s Severn Waste Services energy from waste facility, was officially opened, serving the counties of Worcestershire and Herefordshire in the UK.