WOOD RECYCLING INDUSTRY NEWS
Consistent supply is the key to Hadfi elds’ success
As one of the UK’s biggest exporters of biomass fuel and the ninth fastest-growing company in the waste and recycling sector, Hadfi eld Wood Recyclers has good reason to celebrate its 35th anniversary this year.
Loading a Hadfi eld trailer with wood for recycling (this picture and those opposite courtesy of Stephen Hughes Photography).
online in 2007, Hadfi eld Wood Recyclers was the only UK company able to produce fuel from waste wood to a high enough specifi cation for its boiler.
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The reason being that the Wilton 10 boiler, part of the Sembcorp Biomass Power Station near Redcar in Cleveland, is fuelled
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hen the Sembcorp
Biomass Power Station came
by biomass from both virgin and waste wood and the intricacies of the boiler required a very high specifi cation of fuel.
It is this level of competency and high service standards that sets Hadfi elds apart from its competi- tors, according to Managing Direc- tor Geoff Hadfi eld, who founded the company with his father 35 years ago.
“We had a lot of experience in manufacturing high quality prod- ucts from recycled waste wood
because we had been producing branded animal bedding products for years,” said Geoff. “So when Sembcorp was looking for a company that could manufacture a high specifi cation biomass fuel from waste wood for the power station we jumped at the opportunity. We knew we were best placed to provide the fuel.”
To meet the demand of the Wilton contract, Hadfi elds set up a sister company – UK Wood
Recycling (UKWR) – based on land next to the power station. The company manufactures 80,000 tonnes of biomass fuel a year for the boiler, as well as other prod- ucts for the Hadfi eld Group. Like Hadfi elds’ other sites in Manchester and Essex, UKWR utilises waste wood, which in the majority of cases would otherwise be sent to landfi ll. The timber is collected from a variety of sources, including civic amenity sites, construction sites, skip companies
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