Howden Projects
Howden Projects develops multi-million dollar turnkey solutions for industrial flue gas conditioning (including flue gas desulphurisation), melt-shop de-dusting, medical and industrial waste incineration, industrial furnaces, underground mine cooling, industrial cooling and refrigeration plants, waste water treatment and electrical and electronic control systems. Howden Projects is assisting heavy manufacturing industries to meet their emissions obligations cost effectively, and mining houses to address their underground mine cooling challenges.
We provide fabric filter plant, flue gas conditioning plant, precipitator upgrade technology, environmental management services and various other emissions control technologies.
We have built a considerable number of reference plants for the power generation industry since 1992. This includes the world’s biggest fabric filter plant installation at Eskom’s Majuba Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Services
Among the services we offer are
- application engineering
- environmental risk analysis
- turnkey project management
- maintenance management
- comprehensive after sales service
We do feasibility studies for plant operators to identify the most applicable emission control technologies. We then can make proposals and carry out the project on a turnkey basis.
We offer long term service contracts for taking care of customers’ plant and provide spare parts
The technology we offer is supported by our own rigorous research and development, backed up by Eskom’s TRI, the Polymer Research Institute in Stellenbosch, suppliers of critical equipment and licensors.
Quality
We achieved ISO
9001 listing in 1998 for the design and manufacture of air pollution control equipment. Our quality system is constantly reviewed to ensure its validity and was converted to ISO 9000:2000 early in 2006.
Customers
We enjoy a healthy relationship with all our customers and believe in an open, honest and uncomplicated way of conducting business. We believe in what we do and our ambition is to satisfy our client’s gas cleaning needs.

Hendrina Power Station – one half of the station was upgraded with fabric filters; there is no visible emission from the flue in the center of the picture.

Hendrina Power Station close up aerial view of stack showing no visible emission.

The bottom of two typical filter bag bundles.

A view of the fully bagged bundles and rotating manifolds from the top of the cell plate.
Please Contact Us at our local office for further information.