Tata Chemicals Europe Opens UK's largest industrial scale carbon capture and utilisation plant

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Tata Chemicals Europe is now manufacturing one of the lowest carbon footprint sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate products in the world. These chemicals are used to make a wide array of everyday items seen in many households.

Already generating heat and electricity from one of the most efficient combined heat and power plants in the UK, the carbon footprint of our operations in Northwich has been significantly reduced following the completion of the UK’s only industrial scale carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) plant. This plant will enable more than 10% of carbon dioxide produced by our combined heat and power plant (CHP) to be recycled, purified and used as a key raw material to produce high grade sodium bicarbonate.

In June 2022, Mike Amesbury, MP for Weaver Vale, officially opened the UK’s first and largest industrial scale carbon capture and utilisation plant, enabling us to make the world’s first carbon neutral sodium bicarbonate. Supported by a £4.2m grant from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the £20m investment at our Winnington site captures 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year - the equivalent of taking 20,000 cars off the roads.

In a world first, carbon dioxide captured from energy generation emissions is then purified to food and pharmaceutical grade for use as a raw material in the manufacture of sodium bicarbonate, which will be known as EcoKarb® and will be exported to over 60 countries around the world. Much of the sodium bicarbonate exported will be used in haemodialysis to treat people living with kidney disease.

“The CCU demonstration plant enables us to reduce our carbon emissions, whilst securing supplies of a critical raw material, helping to grow the export of our products across the world."

Martin Ashcroft, Managing Director of Tata Chemicals Europe