fairport engineering
Engineers of precision projects
From bespoke design & manufacture to installation, management & consultancy:
• Cement plants • Recycle plants • Mineral mining • Turnkey plants • Food process equipment & product lines • Specialists in flour milling equipment
We are a long established family business (since 1987) offering exceptional and often unique Engineering solutions for a huge range of diverse industries throughout the UK and rest of the world – from sugar refineries to recycle plants.
Based in the North of England, home of the industrial revolution, we offer a unique service with a positive ‘can do’ approach, together with the belief we will be able to solve all your manufacturing requirements.
Just a glance through our website highlights the cross section of the type of projects we specialise in. Call us today and experience our exceptional personal customer service. No project is too small or too big!
Call us now and talk to our Managing Director – Neil Hyde on 01257 484000
Aggregates
Fairport has extensive experience in the design and construction of many types of aggregate production facilities encompassing natural stone such as sand & aggregate, limestone, granite and also synthetic light-weight aggregate forms.
Concrete Products
Fairport provides a complete design and build service for the establishment of building & concrete product plants. Predominantly based on the bulk production of ‘Dry Silo Mortar’ facilities this expertise is also available for speciality products such as hollow core walling, aerated concrete blocks and pavoirs.
Cement
Fairport has the enviable reputation of having provided materials handling facilities at almost all of the United Kingdom’s cement works. Systems delivered include bulk raw materials intake and processing through to clinker grinding, and blending, cement storage, packing and palletising.
Consultancy
Fairport undertakes total responsibility for all front end project development activities, thus reducing client risk in a collaborative, inclusive and integrated manner. Assignments are delivered on an open book basis, allowing optimum client involvement and complete transparency.
Minerals
Fairport has a process engineering capability that can provide expertise in industrial minerals and metalliferrous ores. Particular expertise is available for gypsum, kaolin, lime, calcium carbonate as well as beach sands, cassiterite, wolfram, base metals, fluorspar and barytes.
Power & Fuels
Fairport’s beginnings were established in the UK coal handling and preparation sectors and have developed from this to include various forms of alternative fuel production plants such as naturally occurring biomass and waste derived fuels.
RECENT PROJECTS
LATEST NEWS
Hinkley Point C – Fairport Adds To “Green” Credentials
When constructed and fully commissioned Hinkley Point C will provide added security to the mix of electrical generation capacity in the UK. In its own right nuclear power can be viewed as one of the greenest forms of reliable, long-term electrical energy avail...
New Silo – A Landmark Success At Hinkley!
The recently installed 35 metre high 5,000 tonne Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS) silo is to become a new landmark on the Hinkley Point C project site and will play a pivotal role while construction is ongoing. BYLOR’s (Bouygues TP and Laing O’R...
New IBA Recycling Facility Comes Online at Johnson’s Lane
Ballast Phoenix has been recycling Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA) since the late 1990’s and until recent times had seven operational sites in the UK. Mostly these are co-located with Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators and process between 75,000 to 150,000t/a o...