First tenant for Peel NRE’s Fiddler’s Ferry
TITAN Group plans to open a processing facility to recycle waste ash produced by the former Warrington power station into low carbon building materials.
TITAN’s fly ash plant aims to be operational by early 2027 after the company signed a long-term agreement with Peel NRE, which owns the Warrington site.
The agreement will see TITAN extract and process fly ash, a by-product of coal combustion, from existing lagoons at Fiddler’s Ferry as part of the restoration of the site.
The facility will be able to process 300,000 tons of wet fly ash annually starting from 2027, with the potential to double this capacity, the company said.
The recycled fly ash will be used to make low-carbon cement and concrete, saving 7.5m tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually, according to TITAN.
Jean-Philippe Benard, executive committee member at TITAN Group, said: ”This project is a major step forward in implementing our Growth Strategy.
“Expanding our alternative cementitious business, we are enhancing the sustainability of the construction sector. We are also meeting the growing demand for innovative, high-performance building materials, leveraging the proprietary technology of our company, ST Equipment & Technology.”
Kieran Tames, director and head of Peel NRE, said: “We are very pleased to have reached this agreement with TITAN, which follows years of hard work fully evaluating the potential to transform the waste ash material from the power station directly into a low-carbon construction product.
“This agreement has the potential to accelerate the recovery of waste ash from the lagoons, enabling their restoration and enhancement as envisaged by the development framework that was approved by the local authority last year. Through our partnership, existing customers will continue to source ash from the site, ensuring continuity of supply for their applications.”
The aphorism of where there’s muck there’s brass springs to mind….. and a circular low carbon beneficial outcome.
By Mel Smith
Hope those who put in all the hard work are recognised and rewarded – sounds like a forward thinking idea!
By Ivor Storey
Is it possible to metal detect the land before and building work starts.
South Lans&Cheshire metal Detecting club
By Geoff Golson
What will be the affects on health and environmental matters with this process? Dust production would be a concern to local residents and businesses. There was no mention of this when Peel Holdings started to dismantle the power station.
By John
Everyone comments like this something new…. fly ash or waste ash as its being referred to in this article was used for building materials decades ago, we used to run fly ash train into West Burton power station for that very reason.
By D. Firth
Ash plant was shut down by SSE back in 2019 as it wasn’t a viable operation, since the cement manufacturers didn’t want to pay for process ash. They were happy to take the ash as it was since the ash contained unspent carbon which was useful for the own furnaces and reduced their fuel cost. Not sure what’s happened since to make it viable…still can’t see how the ash plant can operate where houses are being built…dust city with when loading the wagons!!
By Anonymous