07 Sep 2023 --- Avery Dennison has commissioned “Europe’s largest” Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) platform and Thermal Storage unit at its production plant in Turnhout, Belgium. The renewable energy project contains a Concentrated Solar Thermal platform with 2,240 surface mirrors, a solar field peak yield of 2.7 GWh thermal power and six thermal storage modules with a capacity of 5 MWh thermal power. The renewable energy platform, consisting of a CST field and Thermal Storage unit, covers 5,540 square meters and will contain “the largest” installation of parabolic mirrors combined with thermal energy storage in an industrial Europe setting.
