Net zero in action:
A step closer to creating the UK’s first near-zero cement works
Plans are progressing to build a carbon capture facility at our Padeswood cement works in north Wales. We have signed a statement of principles with the UK Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to enter into final negotiations, with the aim of making a decision by April 2025.
We have also signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Worley, marking another milestone in our plans to create the UK’s first near-zero cement works.
If the project goes ahead, it would be the first facility of its kind in the UK and would set the UK’s construction industry on the path to net zero.
It would capture almost all the CO2 produced during cement manufacture, equating to up to 800,000 tonnes annually, and enabling the production of evoZero carbon captured near zero cement from the site as early as 2029.
We are also involved in a number of other industry-leading decarbonisation trials using innovative technologies including:
- Trialling C-Capture’s solvent-based carbon capture technology at Ketton cement works.
- Taking part in a 12-month project to establish the feasibility of using ammonia as a source of hydrogen for use as a fuel in cement kilns at our Ribblesdale works.
- Looking at the feasibility of using hydrogen to decarbonise asphalt production at our Criggion asphalt plant in mid-Wales.
