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Forward Swindon welcomes new manufacturing company – Innovative company sets up in Swindon
Forward Swindon welcomes new manufacturing company – Innovative company sets up in Swindon
At the launch – Phil Young, Director of Investment at Forward Swindon, Justin Tomlinson MP and Adrian Griffiths, MD Recycling Technologies.
A new hi-tech company has just arrived in Swindon. “Recycling Technologies” is a manufacturer of energy-from-waste equipment, capable of generating electricity from mixed plastic waste. They held their official launch on Monday 8th April 2013.
The company was spun out of the University of Warwick in 2011, with assistance from Warwick Ventures Ltd, the University’s research commercialisation company. Now they have just opened their first design, testing and manufacturing plant in Swindon. There they will manufacture their system, the WarwickFBRTM designed to produce heat and electricity from plastic normally destined for landfill. With a strong team and a wide range of advisors including Peter Jones OBE, previously of waste management specialists Biffa, as well as the backing and research credentials of the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham, Recycling Technologies is set to create a new market for post-consumer plastics waste.
Today, according to the waste giant Viridor, 85% of plastic in the UK is still landfilled. Recycling Technologies say that its technology can eliminate this, turning it instead into electricity and heat. Using a process called “Pyrolysis”, the mixed plastics are transformed into gas, filtered to remove impurities and condensed to output a wax like fuel. This fuel can then be used in a suitable engine and generator in place of – for example – diesel.
There are many environmental benefits to this process, including enabling a reduction in the transportation of bailed plastics, a reduction in landfill, and the use of waste to create electricity rather than using virgin fossil fuels. Their system will produce enough fuel to generate up to 3 Megawatts of electricity and a similar amount of heat.
We are delighted that Recycling Technologies approached Forward Swindon for assistance with finding new premises and helping to promote the company’s arrival in Swindon.