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The Sunderland Waste Tyre Processing Facility development is situated within the East Dock of the Port of Sunderland and is a former hydrocarbon tank farm.<\/p>\n
Engineering construction specialist Technip has secured the job to build the new plant, which will have the capacity to process up to 73,000 tonnes of end-of-life tyres a year into around 24,000t of recovered carbon black (rCB) as well as up to 32,000t of liquid products, including liquid fuel.<\/p>\n
Operator Norwegian-firm Wastefront said it would be the UK\u2019s first \u201cfully circular tyre-to-fuel plant\u201d as it is able to refine used tyres into oil, and then sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).<\/p>\n
Facilities like Wastefront\u2019s planned Sunderland plant are critical to meeting the UK\u2019s SAF mandate, which came into effect on 1 January 2025, requiring at least 10% of all jet fuel used in flights departing the UK to come from sustainable feedstocks by 2030, rising to 22% by 2040.<\/p>\n
Vianney Val\u00e8s, CEO of Wastefront, said the plant will be built in phases, starting with one module producing 8,000 tonnes of oil annually and eventually expanding to four modules with a total capacity of 32,000 tonnes per year.<\/p>\n
By 2030, Wastefront plans to operate four large-scale plants, collectively producing 128,000 tonnes of oil annually.<\/p>\n
This will feed into a centralised SAF facility capable of converting 70% of this oil into SAF, yielding approximately 90,000 tonnes of SAF per year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n