Re-Gen starts construction on £30m ‘resource recovery park’

The 8-acre site, located within the Invest NI Carnbane Business Park, is set to accommodate a number of operations including the manufacture of solid recovered fuel (SRF), making products from dry recyclables, a garage, and engineering workshop.

Around 250 people will be involved in the construction of the manufacturing and industrial units.

A spokesperson for Re-Gen told letsrecycle.com that products from dry recyclables will be manufactured in a separate facility, but “we don’t know what this will look like, at this time, as research and development trials on paper, plastic and glass are still progressing”.

Recyclables

The company said a research and development unit, four-storey office block and new headquarters for the Re-Gen Group comprising Re-Gen Waste, Re-Gen Robotics and Connex Offsite will also be built.

It will be built next to the company’s existing MRF, which has a capacity of around 200,000 tonnes.

Joseph Doherty, managing director at Re-Gen, said: “This is an exciting development for the Re-Gen Group. We consulted widely on our plans to allow the community to have their say and our design team has taken their comments on board in developing the proposals for the site. This has been a very constructive process.

“Employing special mechanical manufacturing processes, we will be producing SRF as a fossil fuel replacement on the site.”

Mr Doherty added that the company had a dedicated business development team working with councils across Great Britain and Ireland to process their recycling materials as they are “valuable resources”.

‘Innovation’

He explained: “Our focus is on innovation and developing manufacturing facilities that close the recycling loop, create jobs at home and ultimately boost the Northern Ireland economy.”

“We take environmental quality standards very seriously and work closely with the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in order to operate our materials recovery facility,” Mr Doherty added.

The project is set to secure the company’s 300 jobs in Newry and County Armagh.