Hiab and Molok worked on the waste handling system for the Beijing Olympics Park in 2008. Photo:Guo Lei/Xinhua

Cargotec's Hiab specialist division has entered into a sales partnership with Molok Ltd, a leading provider of waste collection systems.

Hiab is now the exclusive sales partner of Molok's deep collection systems in the Asia Pacific market.

Molok's deep collection systems form a central part of Hiab's environmental solutions offering for the entire logistics chain for handling waste streams, from consulting and designing the solution all the way to providing and maintaining the customer's solution.

The new agreement expands the firms' existing co-operation in the Asia Pacific region.

"Molok is the global leader in providing deep collection systems for waste handling," says Jukka Loikala, global director of Hiab's Environmental Solutions. "The company has a long and extensive international experience of presence in over 30 countries."

He adds that Molok's high level and high quality deep collection containers complement Hiab's offering with products that can minimise environmental hazards, such as contamination of ground waters, odours and fauna.

Hiab and Molok have implemented several significant projects in the Asia Pacific, such as the waste handling system for the Beijing Olympics Park in 2008. Additionally, in the Chinese city of Nanjing, Hiab and Molok carried out an innovative pilot project, which combined the Chinese model for waste collection and the most modern waste handling technology into an innovative waste collection system. The system, utilising Molok's deep collection containers, waste compactors and waste handling vehicles, lowered the environmental load of waste streams and attained 30-50% savings in waste handling costs.