Padeswood CCS
Heidelberg Materials (Hanson) · Padeswood · GB · Cement and concrete · decarbonisation
Padeswood CCS is Heidelberg Materials (Hanson)'s cement project at Padeswood, United Kingdom.
Why it matters
The money is committed.
- Padeswood CCS took a final investment decision on 25 September 2025. as of 2025-09-25
- Its site is at Padeswood, United Kingdom. as of 2025-09-25
- It uses post-combustion carbon capture. as of 2025-09-25
- No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2025-09-25
Where Padeswood CCS is
Padeswood CCS is at Padeswood, United Kingdom, and this register holds no position for it. The company has confirmed the site and no citable source places the works: it is being built where nobody has yet drawn it. The row is held anyway — position is not a condition of being on file — and what was searched, and what was found instead, is below.
NO POSITION SOUGHT BY THIS PASS. Brief 8 forbids geocoding in a census -- a municipality is not a point -- and the owner statement that admits this row names the works and not a position. The works is Padeswood. A polygon for it is a separate job and the row is admitted without one, on the rule that position is not an admission leg.
Status
- Announced2022-12-15
- Funded
- FID taken2025-09-25
- In construction
- 2022-12-15AnnouncedMitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, the appointed Pre-FEED contractor, naming its client and the works: “a CO2 capture plant at its Padeswood cement works located in Flintshire, Wales... Once operational, the plant will capture 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year”source
- 2025-09-25FID takenHeidelberg Materials, own release of 25 September 2025: “Heidelberg Materials takes Final Investment Decision for CCS project in UK – construction will start this year”, and “Padeswood represents Heidelberg Materials’, and the world’s, second industrial-scale CCS initiative in the cement sector to reach Final Investment Decision (FID)”. THE ROW STOPS AT FID: construction starting is stated as intent in the same sentence and no source read says it started.source
Technology and measures
- Post-combustion carbon captureearly-commercialCO2 is separated from the kiln's flue gas after combustion, using an amine or solvent process bolted onto an existing plant, which is what makes it the retrofit route for kilns that are not being rebuilt.
Funding
No public capital recorded for this project.
Sources
- Padeswood CCSMitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering · 2022-12-15
- Heidelberg Materials takes Final Investment Decision for CCS project in UKHeidelberg Materials · 2025-09-25