Excursions

 

Post Conference Tour 1:

  Misapor/Tegra/Stallinger/Ems-Chemie/Holcim
   
 
Date: September 6, 2007 (all day)
   
Departure: The coach will leave Davos at 08:30 a.m.
   
  After a short journey we will arrive at Surava. There we will visit the MISAPOR-plant, which produces foam glass from collected glass waste. At Domat-Ems the biofuel furnace of TEGRA will be presented. Using the residues from the adjacent timber facilities of STALLINGER, steam and electricity for the nearby chemical plant of EMS-CHEMIE is generated. After a short lunch, the tour will conclude with a visit to the HOLCIM cement plant. To reduce the consumption of coal and oil, the plant uses alternative fuels such as dried sewage sludge, waste oil, plastics and animal meal.
   
  Additionally the tour will give you an impression of the landscape of the area and of the beautiful Swiss mountains.
   
  The tour will end in Landquart. Participants will be able to catch the trains to Zurich departing after 15:00 hrs (3 p.m.). There are departures at 15:04, 15:19 and 15:26. Those returning back to Davos can take the train at 15:47 hrs (3.47 p.m.).
   
  Registration fee per person: € 25.00 (lunch is included)
   
   
   
 

Post Conference Tour 2:

  Visit of Kompogas Information Center
   
 
Date: September 6, 2007 (all day)
   
Departure: The coach will leave Davos at 8:30 a.m. towards Otelfingen
(20 km from Zurich airport)
   
 
We will visit the Kompogas Information Center: Komogas
   
11:30 Introduction to the ecological cycle for
treatment of organic waste
   
12:00 Visit fermentation plant
   
 
12:30 Visit aqua-culture plant
   
13:00 Lunch
   
14:00 Kompogas Movie, discussion
   
14:30 Gas driven kart
   
15:30 Departure
   
16:00 Arrival at Zurich airport, and at Zurich railway station
   
  Registration fee per person: € 25.00 (lunch is included)
   
   
   
   
   
   
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