Carlos M. Jarque visits the FCC Environment team in the UK
In FCC Environment’s offices, Carlos M. Jarque addressed the staff and encouraged them, as their main objectives, to work in a results-oriented manner, focusing on quality of service and productivity. He also acknowledged the work the team carried out in 2016. Later on he held a meeting with Paul Taylor, Chief Executive of FCC Environment UK, and the rest of the management team. On the agenda at the meeting was a review of the 2016 financial results, the budget for 2017, the company's strategy and the alternative uses of landfills.
During the trip, the CEO visited the Re3 facilities which include a recycling plant, as well as a special waste collection point and transfer stations, which serve the towns of Bracknell Forest, Reading and Wokingham in Berkshire. He also travelled to Oxfordshire on the same day where he visited the Sutton-Courtenay treatment plant. This facility produces refuse derived fuel (RDF) from municipal waste which is exported to Europe. The site also has transfer infrastructure for rail transport. He also saw the Wally Corner landfill site which was closed down and turned into a solar panel farm.
The visit came to an end in Buckinghamshire where Carlos M. Jarque visited the Calvert landfill site which also has rail transport transfer infrastructure. He also saw the Greatmoor energy-from-waste plant, opened in 2016, which will treat over 300,000 tonnes per year and produce 22MW of electricity, equivalent to 36,000 homes, before finally viewing the Bletchley facilities, a landfill site and plant also producing RDF from municipal waste.
FCC Environment is a leading waste and resource management company in the United Kingdom. It employs around 2,400 people and operates over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales.