A recent trip over to Lincoln saw me and Neosea visit Lincoln Castings, (thanks for driving and the coffee marra!)
Lincoln Castings Limited, formerly George Fischer (Lincoln) Limited, was an iron foundry in North Hykeham, with a production capacity of approximately 80,000 tonnes of castings annually, they manufactured high quality iron casting components in nodular and grey iron for the international automotive, tractor and construction machinery industries. In 2005 Lincoln castings were awarded the Lincolnshire Environmental Award for their pioneering project using waste tyres. The casting furnaces relied on burning coke to melt iron but coke is a fossil fuel; a finite resource that has to be shipped in from as far away as China and that with carbon dioxide emissions contributes to global warming. But Lincoln Castings hit upon a solution. 40 million waste tyres are generated in the UK annually and the company had developed a unique method of using these tyres to supplement coke in the foundry. The furnace then operated with a mixture of 25% tyres and 75% coke, equating to more than one-third of a million waste tyres being controllably burned annually. The tyres were sourced within Lincolnshire and the sophisticated gas cleaning plant ensured that emissions to the atmosphere were unaffected.
Lincoln Castings pioneering project helped the environment on many levels: reducing the quantity of coke required, reducing the transport of coke, dealing with the problem of waste tyres, and the resulting cost savings help secure local jobs for the future. This last statement is a bit ironic, because in February 2007 the plant closed.
Plenty more on the website.
Lincoln Castings Limited, formerly George Fischer (Lincoln) Limited, was an iron foundry in North Hykeham, with a production capacity of approximately 80,000 tonnes of castings annually, they manufactured high quality iron casting components in nodular and grey iron for the international automotive, tractor and construction machinery industries. In 2005 Lincoln castings were awarded the Lincolnshire Environmental Award for their pioneering project using waste tyres. The casting furnaces relied on burning coke to melt iron but coke is a fossil fuel; a finite resource that has to be shipped in from as far away as China and that with carbon dioxide emissions contributes to global warming. But Lincoln Castings hit upon a solution. 40 million waste tyres are generated in the UK annually and the company had developed a unique method of using these tyres to supplement coke in the foundry. The furnace then operated with a mixture of 25% tyres and 75% coke, equating to more than one-third of a million waste tyres being controllably burned annually. The tyres were sourced within Lincolnshire and the sophisticated gas cleaning plant ensured that emissions to the atmosphere were unaffected.
Lincoln Castings pioneering project helped the environment on many levels: reducing the quantity of coke required, reducing the transport of coke, dealing with the problem of waste tyres, and the resulting cost savings help secure local jobs for the future. This last statement is a bit ironic, because in February 2007 the plant closed.
Plenty more on the website.
