Since 1980
Turboden, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries group company, is an Italian firm and a global leader in the design, manufacture and maintenance of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems, highly suitable for distributed generation. ORC systems can generate electric and thermal power exploiting multiple sources, such as renewables (biomass, geothermal energy, solar energy), traditional fuels and waste heat from industrial processes, waste incinerators, engines or gas turbines.
The company was founded in 1980 in Milan by Mario Gaia, Professor of Energy at the Politecnico di Milano and today Honorary Chairman of Turboden. In 2013 Turboden became part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries group that strongly supports Turboden in the development of innovative solutions.
Thanks to its long experience in the energy efficiency sector, today Turboden broaden its solution portfolio with gas expanders and large heat pumps to contribute to the worldwide efforts to mitigate global warming by creating reliable and clean energy systems.
Turboden
foundation
1980
1984
The first solar thermodynamic ORC unit in Perth, Australia (0.2 MW)
The first geothermal ORC unit in Zambia (0.2 MW)
1988
1991
1MW geothermal ORC power plant in Larderello, Italy (1.3 MW)
Experimental heat recovery ORC power plant near Brescia, Italy (1 MW)
1996
1998
The first biomass ORC unit in Biere, Switzerland (0.3 MW)
1MW geothermal ORC unit in Altheim, Austria
2001
2007
New headquarter and production facility in Brescia, Italy
Innovative EGS ORC geothermal plant in Soultz-sous-Forets, France (1.7 MW)
2008
2009
100 ORC units and 100 MW installed
Heat recovery ORC unit from gas turbine in Canada (1 MW)
2011
2013
Turboden part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries group
Turboden Turkey foundation in Ankara, Turkey
2015
2016
The first 16 MW ORC geothermal turbine. The biggest biomass ORC plant (8 MW)
From ORC supplier to technological solutions provider
2019
2020
Turboden 40th anniversary
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world’s leading industrial firms with 80,000 group employees and annual consolidated revenues of around 38 billion U.S. dollars (year 2018). For more than 130 years, the company has channeled big thinking into innovative and integrated solutions that move the world forward. MHI owns a unique business portfolio covering land, sea, sky and even space. MHI delivers innovative and integrated solutions across a wide range of industries from commercial aviation and transportation to power plants and gas turbines, and from machinery and infrastructure to integrated defense and space systems.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was founded in 1884, a year of great change for Japan. Beginning in the maritime transport business, Mitsubishi expanded into areas such as shipbuilding, mining, and banking. The company was formed to support Japan on its path to becoming a modern state. Mitsubishi combined its shipbuilding and aircraft departments to set up Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The company moved into new industrial fields covering sea, land and air. MHI achieved major successes and aggressively expanded into new businesses in fields ranging from energy to the environment and space. Its contributions in trade and innovation help the global economy grow.
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