Our Facilities
Pyle, Bridgend
State-of-the-art facilities for the disposal, processing and recycling of end-of-life heavy electrical equipment & hazardous waste can be found at our Bridgend facility. Ongoing investment in the facility has ensured that Celtic Recycling continue to be the market leaders.
All plant items considered hazardous or difficult are transported by Celtic Recycling to the Bridgend facility, where the environmental protection measures and controls greatly exceed those required under current environmental legislation.
The Celtic Recycling Bridgend site is licensed to receive and process all types of electrical equipment, including plant contaminated with hazardous wastes such as mercury, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride).
Environmental safeguards include:
- Fully-contained site perimeter drainage
- High risk area bunding
- Contiguous, inter-linked heavy-duty steel containment bays in the PCB-processing area
- Oversized oil interceptors – with almost twice the capacity for emergency spillage containment required by legislation
- High-grade, virtually impervious micro-silica concrete slab construction
- The entire site is supported upon a heavy duty geo-membrane which completely underlies the site to provide an impermeable seal
Current process facilities on site include:
- An on-site twin-chamber incinerator which can process difficult wastes such as oil or bitumen-contaminated equipment, which is linked to state-of-the-art computer data loggers to monitor and record operating temperatures and stack emission levels
- ‘Draigufel’ PCB-decontamination equipment for processing PCB-contaminated insulating oil, supported by an in-house laboratory equipped with a gas chromatography unit
- Solvent wash processing to remove PCB from solid wastes, ably serviced by recently installed electric overhead cranes
- SF6 storage, recovery and test facilities
- Bulk oil storage capability for contaminated or non-contaminated oils
- Numerous lift facilities up to 60 tonnes capacity
- Modern materials handling equipment and processing methods for non-contaminated plant and equipment
In addition to the main entrance which is equipped with a 50 tonne capacity weighbridge, the facility also benefits from a dedicated abnormal load entrance which is capable of receiving the largest vehicles and loads able to travel on the UK’s highways today. Transformers and other capital assets up to 110 tonnes in weight are routinely offloaded in the dedicated heavy off-load area utilising the company’s in-house bespoke jacking and winching system.
Newport, South Wales
Celtic Recycling is pleased to announce the acquisition of a new processing and storage facility at Queensway Meadows Industrial Estate, Newport.
This additional 4.1 acre site has warehousing space of 42,000 square feet, most of which benefits from existing overhead crane capacity of up to 16 tonnes. Additional crane capacity of up to 100 tonnes is scheduled to be installed as soon as planning approval is received for the necessary modifications to the existing buildings.
Phase 1 of the development will include a newly refurbished warehouse with brand new state of the art offices which we anticipate being complete by Summer 2010. Storage, dismantling and recycling will be just some of the services on offer. We would however, be more than happy to listen to customer needs with regards to hazardous and non-hazardous waste recovery and disposal.
This major development underlines the company’s commitment to providing the electricity industry with a support infrastructure capable of meeting all current, and future, regulatory requirements.
Queensway Meadows Industrial Estate is strategically located near Junction 24 of the M4, with excellent road links to the motorway network.
