Environmental Protection
Firth Rixson Superalloys Ltd
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF AN APPLICATION MADE UNDER SECTION 6 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1990, PART 1
INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL
Notice is hereby given that Firth Rixson Superalloys Ltd has applied to the Environment
Agency for an Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) authorisation to operate an Air melt
process at Firth Rixson Superalloys Ltd, Shepley Street, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13
7SA, in the High Peak Borough Council, in the county of Derbyshire.
Process Description
To install 2 by 1 tonne capacity and 1 by 2 tonne capacity electrical induction air
melt furnaces for melting non-ferrous alloys and discharge molten alloy into ceramic
moulds producing 7 kilogram ingots.
Information relating to the above IPC application for authorisation to operate the
air melt process is held in registers at the Environment Agency Regional Office, Richard
Fairclough House, Knutsford Road, Warrington WA4 1HG and Environmental Health and
Leisure Department, High Peak Borough Council, Town Hall, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17
6EL.
Members of the public can inspect these registers, free of charge, at the addresses
above during normal office hours. In addition, members of the public who wish to obtain
a copy of the relevant information contained in the register can do so upon the payment
of a reasonable charge to cover the costs of copying.
Any objections or representations to the above IPC application should be made in
writing to the Environment Agency Area Office, Appleton House, 430 Birchwood Boulevard,
Birchwood, Warrington WA3 7WD, within 28 days from the date of this public notice.
Any such objections or representations will be entered into a public register, unless
the person making them requests in writing that they should not be so placed. If there
is such a request, the register will only include a statement that there has been
a request. In this case there will be included in the register a statement indicating
only that representations have been made which have been the subject the of such a
request.