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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:39

New wood chip plant to supply E.ON

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demo 007Wood recycling firm Plevin is to open the UK’s largest waste wood recycling centre – primarily to supply wood chips for E.ON’s £120m renewable energy plant at Blackburn Meadows near Sheffield.

As exclusive suppliers of fuel for the biomass-fired facility, Pelvin plan to install the £5 million facility on a 50 acre site in Hazlehead, South Yorkshire.

The development has been timed to coincide with the start of our contract with E.ON, with work due for completion in Spring 2014.

The project will create 20 jobs and process up to 150,000 tonnes of waste wood a year – raising family-run Pelvin's annual waste wood processing capacity to 350,000 tonnes.

Jamie Plevin, managing director of Plevin, said: “The Hazlehead facility will be a fantastic development for us, and with the E.ON contract we are making significant strides towards our growth targets.

“As well as helping us expand our operations by giving us further capacity for new contracts, Hazlehead will also help us to offer increased processing volumes to existing customers.

“The project will allow us to have an open gate policy for contracted suppliers on all grades of waste wood. Once completed, we will be able to offer guaranteed recycling of a large volume of high and low grade waste wood.

Sourcing of the additional 150,000 tonnes of wood waste for the Hazlehead development will be led by business development manager Andrew McFadzean, who has recently been recruited by Plevin as part of its ongoing recruitment drive.

Andrew has more than 15 years’ experience within the waste wood recycling industry, having been a founding member of Tracey Timber Recycling before becoming the materials manager at AW Jenkinson Forest Products.

His new role will include responsibility for sourcing and procuring waste wood for all Plevin sites, as well as supporting with logistic and processing operations.

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