The build-out of a £5 million industrial process plant that could prove technology to help clean up steel and other heavy industry is underway at Port of Immingham.
CPL Industries is investing after securing a significant grant from the government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio to ramp up research and development in turning food waste into biochar, a high carbon material that if processed further could be used as a coal replacement.
A new hydrothermal conversion plant is being built on the site to produce 2,000 tonnes a year, the equivalent to sequestering 6,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
