Industrial Minerals


RockTron to recycle fly ash

06 October 2009

by Mark Watts

UK firm plans to produce filler mineral substitutes from power plant waste products

Keywords: PFA, functional fillers, RockTron, recycling, Scottish and Southern Energy

RockTron Ltd, which has developed a new process to recycle pulverised fly ash (PFA) collected from coal-fired power stations as functional filler mineral substitutes, has commissioned an 800,000 tpa plant in the UK.

 

The 4,000m2 “eco-minerals” facility is located at the site of the Fiddler’s Ferry power station near Widnes in north-west...