Manco Energy was formed in 1998 by Mick Richards who is the Director of the business. Mick was an early adopter of biomass heating systems and after several years made an alliance with Linka Energy.

We are the sole UK importer of Linka biomass boilers.

Manco Energy was born out of a desire to find a solution to using straw as an efficient energy source, Mick Richards Agriculture was and is a large straw contracting business and has a large customer base, and therefore access to a large quantity of straw bales. In the late 90’s Manco Energy was established to supply and fit biomass boilers, initially locally – East Yorkshire, but demand grew. An efficient boiler manufacturer was still being sought, Mick then entered into a sole supply relationship with Lin ka Energy, a leading manufacturer of biomass boilers in Denmark. They had mastered the art of efficient straw combustion and manufacture of Straw Biomass boilers, along with woodchip and pellet Biomass Boilers. Initially these biomass boilers were installed on Farms to help reduce fossil fuel costs in the Agribusiness sector.

As we grew so did the market place. We now install to many businesses, primarily within land based industries that have a large heat demand. From Poultry sites to large commercial glasshouses supplying plants, flowers, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and a wide variety of soft fruits such as strawberries. With the majority all using their own straw as a biomass fuel, giving security of fuel and reducing their businesses carbon emissions.

In addition to traditional biomass the Linka Biomass boilers are accredited to burn some alternative biomass fuels such as coffee, oat husks and olive kernels to name but a few. Recently we have installed WID, Waste Incineration Directive, IED, Industrial Emissions Directive, Biomass boilers providing waste to energy installs using various grades of waste wood.

The heat we provide is used in many ways from Grain Drying to space heating and onto process heating. We have installed several plants with belt dryers. The belt dryers are a multifunction drying system, which we can dry anything from waste coffee to Lucerne/Grass to paper, all of which we are fully accredited to do under the current Renewable Heat Incentive. We also have boilers drying concrete panels.

The heat produced can also be used to produce electricity, Combined Heat and Power, CHP. We use high water temperature Lin ka boilers, 140 degree C, to drive the Organic Rankin Cycle, ORC, to produce usable electricity and a low grade heat there after. The next step up in terms of heat produced is the Lin ka Steam boilers running on a variety of biomass fuels. One particular boiler is providing steam to a large creamery; the single boiler has replaced several smaller aging traditional steam boilers. We are also looking at steam producing boilers in the Distillery Sector.

Were are also able to supply and install large district heating systems, Lin ka Energy have a vast amount of experience of these projects in Denmark and Northern Europe. We have installed several Farm scale systems in the UK providing all the required heat for grain drying, process heating and space heating workshops, cottages and the Farm House.

In addition to boilers and ORC units we have installed several large bale dryers, Heston’s, This is a very effective way to use all of your outdoor stored bales, Tops and sides will probably have a high moisture content and be un marketable and will need to be disposed of with associated costs.

If you have a large heat demand please do get in touch, you could be surprised at the fossil fuel savings you can make along with increasing your green credentials.