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Laing O’Rourke’s work to decarbonise manufactured concrete components used on its projects has been boosted with a grant from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.
The firm’s project involves a comprehensive study at its Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction at Streetley in Nottinghamshire. Laing O’Rourke has said that it will “investigate every facet of the production process” in the study, which will be carried out in a consortium with the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. The work will cover the use of low carbon concrete, steel and aggregate materials and technologies and the systems used to create formwork and cure products.
Neil Tague
A project that forms part of Essar Oil UK’s plans to decarbonise the Ellesmere Port refinery site has secured backing from the Government’s Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.
The funding has been made available through the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and will be invested in a project to install a new furnace in the crude distillation unit at Stanlow, able to run on a 100% hydrogen fuel source.
Support from BEIS represents a major boost for Essar. The Indian-owned company, which bought the 2,000-acre Stanlow refinery from Shell in 2011, was led in April to affirm its commitment to the site following reports of financial troubles.
Refinery and coldstore capture major investment from new industrial energy fund
Phillips 66 and Magnavale saw their combined £2m projects boosted by BEIS with further investment across Yorkshire
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Two northern Lincolnshire projects have been successful in the first phase roll-out of the government’s Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.
Oil major Phillips 66 has secured more than half a million pounds for its Refuelling the Humber Refinery project as it looks to switch industrial fired heaters from gas to low carbon hydrogen.