Following their departure from Shanghai Port on September 20, 18 custom shaftless screw conveyors built by Henan Yingda Heavy Industry for an Indonesian sludge treatment project have recently arrived at Jakarta Port. This milestone marks the official start of the installation and commissioning phase for this Southeast Asian environmental infrastructure project.
According to the on-site project lead, the equipment will serve as the core material handling component at a newly constructed local sludge treatment plant, processing high-moisture sludge from municipal wastewater facilities. Yingda Heavy Industry’s technical team has also arrived on-site and is collaborating with Indonesian contractors to conduct equipment positioning and pipeline connection work; commissioning and trial operation are expected to be completed by the end of October.
“The shaftless design truly solves the material clogging issues of traditional screw conveyors,” said Agung, the Indonesian project operations supervisor, in an interview. “We previously learned the operating procedures through VR training, and now that we’re working with the actual equipment, the accessibility of maintenance points is even better than we anticipated.”
This project is Yingda Heavy Industry’s third environmental conveying equipment project in Southeast Asia (following projects in Vietnam in 2023 and Malaysia in 2024). A regional manager for Yingda in Southeast Asia revealed that once operational, the sludge treatment plant will have a daily processing capacity of 500 tons, reducing the environmental impact of local wastewater discharge. The team will also provide 12 months of on-site technical support afterward.
Industry insiders note that the smooth delivery of this equipment demonstrates Chinese heavy industry enterprises’ technical adaptability in the environmental equipment sector, while also offering a replicable supply chain model for wastewater treatment infrastructure in Southeast Asia.
