Success rises from the ashes.RUGBY Cement is investing pounds 4 million over the next 12 months into developing its ash business, which it has integrated with its cement business in the past six months.Building work will begin next month on a new blending plant at Powergen's Radcliffe site near Nottingham. The contract is the latest in a string of civil engineering and construction projects, following work on the Channel tunnel rail link The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is a project to construct a 108 km (67 mile) high-speed railway line from London through Kent to the British end of the Channel Tunnel. , Jubilee Line extension The Jubilee Line Extension is the extension of the London Underground Jubilee Line into southern and eastern London. First proposed in the 1970s, it was constructed in the 1990s and opened just before Christmas 1999. , Canary Wharf development, the Birmingham Northern Relief Road and Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5. Pulverised fuel ash Pulverised fuel ash (shortened to PFA, is can be a by product of a coal-fired power station. The coal is pulverised into a fine powder, mixed with heated air and burned. Approximately 18% of the fuel forms fine glass spheres, the lighter of which (c. (Part 1 PFA PFA Pacific Film Archive PFA Professional Footballers Association PFA Paraformaldehyde PFA Predictive Failure Analysis PFA Perfluoroalkoxy PFA Protection From Abuse PFA Parent-Faculty Association PFA Popular Flying Association ) is used as a cement replacement. Rugby managing director Stephen Eastwood said: "Rugby is committed to growing the market for Part 1 PFA - a product which has been hugely successful for us, but which we have been slow to shout about. This investment will help us to build on our success to date, improve the quality of our supply and provide more customers with the quality of product and service they have come to expect from Rugby." He added: "It has always been our intention to develop the ash side of the business, and we are delighted to have the agreement of our parent company, RMC RMC Royal Military College RMC Radio Monte Carlo RMC Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, Virginia) RMC Regional Medical Center RMC Robert Morris College (Illinois) RMC Rocky Mountain College Group." |
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