Our Mission
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Celtic Minerals
The old Aberthaw Power Station produced mountains of fly ash as a waste product from burning coal. Celtic Minerals is on a mission to build a high-tech ash-processing plant at the Aberthaw Power Station site.
The plant will process 600,000 tonnes of waste ash each year into innovative products and materials. With 17 million tonnes to process, this project will create 100 direct jobs lasting 30+ years. Not only will this enterprise clear the Aberthaw site, but it will kick-start a global high-tech industry centred in Wales.
With over 15 years of experience, Celtic Minerals is now ready to make this industry-changing project happen. The research is complete. The tech is well-established. The tests are approved. Investment funding is secured. Orders are in place. Customers are waiting.
Why Aberthaw?
Cardiff Capital Region has recently acquired the Aberthaw site. The fly ash might seem like a problem to be solved but really they are sitting on a ‘gold mine’.
We have had Aberthaw ash tested at Imperial College London. The ash at the Power Station site is of extraordinarily high quality for our process. Given the shared strategic goals between Celtic Minerals, Cardiff Capital Region, and the Welsh Government, Aberthaw is the ideal site for launching this industry-changing technology.
This green-tech project will breathe life into the region through high-visibility industrial regeneration. The plans clearly align with the Welsh Government agenda to support business innovation, reduce energy consumption, become carbon neutral, create jobs, and capitalise on Welsh assets.
Our Products
What we do
Cement Replacement
Concrete production is a huge emitter of greenhouse gases, but we all need concrete. Millions of tonnes of it are poured for foundations, onsite walls, floors, partitions and more. The “glue” part of concrete is cement. We can use processed fly ash to reduce the amount of cement needed by one third, significantly lowering the product’s carbon footprint. From the Aberthaw stock pile, we will process 450,000 tonnes per annum into a British standard cement replacement. These will be delivered by train to London and the South East of England where demand is extremely high.
Plastics Filler
Most plastic is made from crude oil and natural gas. We must reduce fossil fuel dependency to adequately address the climate crisis. Senedd Cymru has a net zero target for 2050. Transformation in the plastics industry can help meet this goal. Celtic Minerals will convert 50,000 tonnes of fly ash each year into a filler for plastic polymers, to be distributed across the UK and Europe. The filler will reduce the amount of new fossil fuels involved in plastic production by putting a coal waste product to new use. This is the first brand-new mineral-based filler for the plastics industry in more than half a century.
Activated Carbon
Activated Carbon is a mineral with many important industrial, medical, agricultural, and environmental uses. It is therefore a valuable product in its own right. The fly ash at Aberthaw is 20% carbon—a significantly higher percentage than ash at other sites. Celtic Minerals will process 120,000 tonnes of ash into activated carbon each year, specifically to sell for purification systems. Working with our industrial partners, it is also possible to further process the carbon into a rubber filler for tyres.
It starts at Aberthaw. But this is a global opportunity.
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The Team at Celtic Minerals