Mr. Bill O"BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many cement kilns are operating in the United Kingdom; and what their capacities are. [115770]
§ Alun MichaelThere are 27 cement kilns at 17 sites in the United Kingdom with a total production capacity of 40,520 tonnes of cement per day. The following table contains the production capacities for each cement kiln.
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Company/Plant location
Kiln technology Production capacity (tonnes/day)
Lafarge Aberthaw dry 1,700 Barnstone wet 300 Cauldon dry (pre-calciner) 2,800 Cookstown semi-dry 1,150 Dunbar dry (pre-calciner) 3,300 Hope dry 1,900 dry 1,900 Northfleet semi-wet 1,800 semi-wet 1,800
Company/Plant location
Kiln technology Production capacity (tonnes/day)
Thurrock wet (not continuous) 110 Westbury wet 950 wet 950 Rugby South Ferriby semi-dry 1,100 semi-dry 1,100 Barrington semi-dry 770 Rugby semi-wet (calciner) 4,000 Castle Ketton dry (long kiln) 1,060 dry (pre-calciner) 3,100 Ribblesdale wet 1,000 wet 1,000 dry (pre-calciner) 2,500 Padeswood dry (long kiln) 840 wet 420 wet 420 Buxton Lime Tunstead1 wet 750 dry (pre-calciner) 2,300 Sean Quinn Fermanagh2 dry 1,500 1 New cement kiln—commissioning scheduled to start mid 2003 and will replace existing wet kiln.
2 Plant shutdown but not decommissioned.