Plans for recycling facility to create hundreds of jobs

FIRM TAKING OVER CLEVELAND BRIDGE SITE PLEDGES TO INVEST £120M IN REGION

- By BILL EDGAR Local Democracy Reporter

HUNDREDS of jobs will be created as part of plans to build the UK's first large-scale plastic-film recycling facility in Darlington.

Endolys Ltd has pledged to invest up to £120 million in the region after taking over the former Cleveland Bridge site.

The chemical recycling company will create up to 120 jobs with the installation of pyrolysis oil production units at the Yarm Road facility - a 29-acre industrial site, which has been dormant since 2021.

Politicians have praised the move for putting the region at the “forefront of innovation in recycling and clean growth’.

Endolys said £60 million has already been secured for the first phase of the development, which will see six units process 60,000 tonnes of shredded plastic-film waste into 40,000 tonnes of pyrolysis oil each year.

The second phase, costing a similar amount, would see a further 60,000 tonnes of film waste processed into a further 40,000 tonnes of oil.