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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...
Fairport supplies New Mobile Hopper System at ABP’s Port of Immingham
Fairport Engineering has recently delivered a new mobile hopper system to Associated British Ports’ operations team at Immingham, handed over on time within 20 weeks from order. The unit is designed to offload bulk commodities such as, Aluminium Oxide, Coal,...
Fairport ‘ploughs’ Forward
New in-line plough at ABP’s Port of Immingham diverts contaminated coal to a recovery compound and pays for itself within 18 months. Stopping a Panamax dry bulk carrier discharging up to 80,000 tonnes of coal weighs heavy on the minds of any port operations...