Owned and operated by px Group since 2018, Saltend Chemicals Park lies at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber and is home to a cluster of world-class chemicals and renewable energy businesses such as INEOS, Mitsubishi Chemicals, and Vivergo Fuels. Partners at the site benefit from cost-effective shared infrastructure and services along with direct access to the Humber River via a deepwater jetty.
Collectively the on-site manufacturers produce almost 2 million tonnes of chemicals every year used in everyday products ranging from paints, clothing, pharmaceuticals. Many of the site partners are interconnected and integrated with each other for vital feedstocks and products. Since its formation as a multi-user chemical park, key tenants have invested around £600m in infrastructure with further investment expected from tenants and new site partners.
A key UK location for industrial decarbonisation, Saltend is set to host the flagship project of the Zero Carbon Humber scheme, which aims to be the world’s first Net Zero industrial cluster by 2040. The flagship project, Hydrogen to Humber Saltend (H2H Saltend), will convert natural gas into Hydrogen using an AutoThermal Reformer (ATR), and will use Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to capture the CO2 for storage offshore. The hydrogen plant will integrate into existing Saltend infrastructure, utility distribution networks and the existing industrial processes and will enable the on-site CHP plant to fuel switch from natural gas to hydrogen and industrial customers in the park to fully switch over to blue hydrogen feedstock.
A significant number of energy transition projects are in development at the 370-acre site. FutureBiogas announced an investment worth tens of millions of pounds at Saltend for CO2 storage tanks – a key component of the CCS process, and Meld Energy is planning to build a £180mn Green Hydrogen facility.