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Addison Project are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been chosen as the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering partner for the construction of Wastefront’s brand new Tyre-to-Fuel plant at the Port of Sunderland.

After many months of background work, we can now announce that work has started on the project to deliver a SAF source into the market place on behalf of IAG. In addition to Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Design and Construction resource, we will be assisting the Wastefront team with technical compliance, procurement and project planning.

This marks a major milestone for IAG in its commitment to SAF and enables Wastefront to begin construction on its fully circular tyre-to-fuel facility in the Port of Sunderland. The plant will begin operations in 2026 and once fully operational the following year, will process up to 10 million waste tyres annually. The UK currently generates around 50 million end-of-life tyres each year, with most of them currently exported to countries such as India where they are incinerated in cement plants or disposed of in landfills.

Facilities like Wastefront’s planned Sunderland plant are critical to meeting the UK’s 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.

Achieving the UK’s 2030 SAF target will require producing 1.2 million tonnes of SAF annually for the aviation industry – almost 20 times the UK’s estimated production of 64,000 tonnes in 2023, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Although this is the first of it’s type for us at Addison, it’s highly unlikely that it will be the last last such project that our teams will be involved with. 2025 promises to be a very exciting year indeed! If you want to find out more about our capabilities, see our online brochure here.

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