A steel firm will receive £3million of taxpayers' cash to help slash emissions as industry chiefs vow to “green” the sector.
In a boost for the Mirror's campaign to Save Our Steel, Cardiff-based Celsa manufacturing is being handed a slice from a £166m pot unveiled by the Government today.
It will use the cash to “install new technologies that improve energy efficiencies in the process to melt scrap metal and produce steel”, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Other firms to benefit from grants announced this morning include sugar company Tate & Lyle, which gets £500,000 “to decarbonise its London sugar refinery and cut emissions by up to 90%”; Saint-Gobain Glass in North Yorks which receives £1.4m to “deliver a new flat glass production furnace to improve the efficiency of its UK plant while reducing energy consumption, emissions and ongoing maintenance cost”; and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology which scoops almost £4.5m to “manage and restore peatlands to maximise their greenhouse gas removal potential at farmland”.
Energy Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said: “We are determined to tackle climate change and make it win-win for both our planet and our economy.
“Today’s major cash boost – targeted at our most polluting industries – will encourage the rapid development of the technologies we need to rein in our emissions and transition to a green economy; one that reduces costs for business, boosts investment and creates jobs.”
