Our Decade of Achievement
Our montage shows, clockwise from bottom left, the Royal Mile, ScotAsh sponsorship of community police car, Blacklaw windfarm, Glencoe Bridge, grout for a sewer in Leeds, the ScotAsh packing plant, the electrostatic ash separator plant, Spiers Wharf in Glasgow and the M90 motorway in Fife
Leading the way in developing green ash-based products
Completion of the £8 million investment in autumn 2003 marked the start of ScotAsh's rise to success as a supplier of green construction products.
With the capability to re-engineer ash from the power stations by taking out the carbon, the company could produce a high quality mineral ash for use in cementitious products.
Environmental Success Story: Over the last 10 years we have sold more than six million tonnes of ash-based products. This has saved 6.6 million tonnes of natural aggregates, diverted more than six million tonnes of ash from landfill - and avoided the release of around 400,000 tonnes of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. Each tonne of ash used in cement saves almost a tonne of
The new facilities at ScotAsh were officially opened in Autumn 2003 by Lewis Macdonald, then the Scottish Government's Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning.
Around the same time, the company was awarded a large contract to supply materials for the construction of the Kincardine Bypass. Other contracts included Braehead Shopping Centre in Renfrewshire and Mallaig Harbour.
ScotAsh also formed research and development partnerships with various universities to develop new products. This resulted in products such as Superpozz SV80, a superfine concrete enhancer, which fills gaps in the concrete's structure providing added strength and durability.
We also produced hydraulic and pozzolanic binders, working with the Contaminated Land Assessment and Research Centre on projects to treat contaminated sludges. We have worked with Sika to develop a bedding mortar and joint filling grout for setted roadways, and with City of Edinburgh Council on using hydraulic and pozzolanic binders to treat road excavation planings so that they can be re-used in road repairs.
Lewis Macdonald MSP, Labour spokesman on energy, tourism and enterprise, said:"I am delighted to congratulate ScotAsh on their 10th anniversary. This kind of company offers a vision of a more sustainable future where, instead of waste byproducts, we have resources which go from one production process to another, adding value and reducing carbon at each stage.
"Scotland in future could lead the world in clean coal technology. We already have a lead in recycling coal ash and turning it into useful products, and it is Peter Quinn and the team at ScotAsh who are leading the way."
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