Two energy intensive businesses in South Wales have been £5.5m in UK Government grant funding to help cut carbon emissions and energy costs. Food processor Dunbia in Carmarthenshire and Celsa Steel UK in Cardiff have received financial support as part of a wider £12.4m Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF).
Dunbia, one of the largest food firms in Europe which has a base in Cross Hands, has received £1,024,100 to replace its gas oil fired steam boiler with a new air source heat pump harvesting system to harvest produce and process the food with hot water washing.
Celsa Steel, the leading user of electric arc furnaces in the UK supplying the construction market with 1.2m tonnes of recycled scrap each year, has been awarded more than £4m for two steel projects.
