CPL delivers Ecoke® biofuel to Liberty Speciality Steels

CPL Products today continues to expand its penetration into hard-to-abate and energy-intensive industries, delivering the first commercial trial of 50 tonnes to Liberty Speciality Steels at Rotherham.

Ecoke^®, developed by CPL during the final months of 2021, found immediate success in metals industries throughout Europe – particularly in Spain, Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia – and is now attracting attention from a wider global audience.

Jason Sutton, CEO of CPL Solid Fuels, said: “We are very proud to support Liberty’s Greensteel initiative: Liberty Steel is at the vanguard of decarbonisation strategies in steel, we quickly identified a natural fit and an opportunity to develop a strategic partnership between two major employers in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Ecoke^® provides an immediate path to decarbonisation and we are committed to a programme of product development and investment to deliver further advances in biofuels in order to exceed industry expectations for the coming years.

In more recent months, customers have been faced with delivery security issues, and we are actively working with a number of major industrial companies on how our UK and Ireland production facilities, with a capacity of 500,000 tonnes per annum, can help alleviate these supply-chain issues and provide security of supply.”

Above: Jason Sutton, CEO of CPL Solid Fuels

Solid Fuels Managing Director, Steve Anson, added: “Our continued success follows consistently excellent results from testing and trials during the last 2 quarters, and we continue to build sustainable relationships with strategically important partners for the future. Where no two furnaces react in quite the same way, and no two industries share identical demands, our aim is to develop customer-specific grades and blends to maximise the production and taxable benefit.

It is increasingly evident that Ecoke^® has significant potential to reduce carbon emissions in blast furnaces, electric arc furnaces, ferro alloy and soda ash production, and for the broader manufacturing industry. The imperative to decarbonise gathers pace not only as a result of legislative process but also, increasingly, from a consumer-led mandate”.

For more information, please visit www.ecoke.biz.

Above pictured (L to R): Neil Rowbotham, Works Manager, CPL Immingham; Jason Sutton, CEO, CPL Industries Solid Fuels; Robert Baker, Business Development Manager, CPL; Scott Jackson, Works Manager, Liberty Speciality Steels; Paul Senior, Shift Operations Manager, Liberty Speciality Steels.