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Brush and Brine

GB Railfreight Class 60, 60002 "Graham Farish 50th Anniversary 1970-2020" passes a small part of the INOVYN Holford Brinefields as it approaches Lostock Gralam with 6M51 12:03 Doncaster Down Decoy to Liverpool Biomass Terminal.

 

INOVYN's operations at its Northwich sites focus on the solution mining and processing of brine for supply to the INOVYN site at Runcorn, where it's used as one of the key raw materials for the production of chlorine, caustic soda, chlorinated derivatives and food grade salt. Brine is also supplied to the Tata Chemicals Europe Soda Ash Plant at Lostock.

 

INOVYN's Northwich sites pump around 30 million cubic metres of water every year, with some 2.5 million tonnes of salt being solution mined.

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Uploaded on September 19, 2021
Taken on September 19, 2021