TV botanist Dr David Bellamy got to grips with a plant of a different kind when he unveiled a Moldow Mawera boiler at Chamois Furnishings.
Dr Bellamy, also a trustee of the World Land Trust, pushed the start button to inaugurate the plant at the Wolverhampton-based company which makes kitchen and cabinet furniture for housing associations.
Andrew Jones-Dutt, the company’s owner, invested £150,000 in the 350kW MPHW Moldow Mawera to cut the cost of removing 10 tonnes of wood based waste every week and to reduce heating charges.
Burning of waste in the plant is regulated to comply with the limits set by UK environmental legislation and will emit no more than 50mg/m3 of carbon dioxide per hour and 100mg/m3 of dust.
Tight limitation on emission limits is achieved by computerised speed control of fuel injection, primary and secondary air fans and flame temperature with O2 Regulation, together with the main exhaust air fan.
The plant eliminates land fill tipping charges and land contamination of 500 tonnes of waste a year. If raw wood was used as the main fuel then 46 acres of trees would be required annually.
Wood waste burned includes old kitchens from housing association properties, thus also reducing tipping charges to the associations.
Chamois Furnishings’ expansion plans include relocating to a new site within two years. It hopes an upgraded boiler plant will provide heat for 50 homes to be built next to the site.
