White Young Green (WYG), has been appointed by Abener, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abengoa Bioenergy to carry out detailed civil engineering design works for a new bioethanol plant at Stallingborough, Lincolnshire.  The plant, says the company, will be the largest of its kind in the UK.

The new bioethanol plant is expected to come into production in 2010, and use around 1.1Mt of wheat to produce roughly 400,000 litres of bioethanol. The project was granted planning permission in late 2007 following an application by Abengoa Bioenergy prepared by WYG Planning.  

White Young Green has already supplied a comprehensive range of pre-planning services for the project, including highway design, environmental impact assessment, site investigation and civil and structural geotechnical design and co-ordination, from their Leeds, York, Nottingham, Newcastle and Leicester offices. The future work will involve a wide range of disciplines from throughout the White Young Green company and will be managed and coordinated from the Nottingham office.

John Ottaway, Engineering Director comments: “This is a landmark project not only for WYG but for the whole of the UK.  WYG is committed to sustainability and biodiversity and through the development of a bioethanol plant we are able to contribute towards preserving the natural environment”.

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