Thanks to a tip-off, I headed over to have a look at this early this morning.
The employee-owned Tullis Russell paper mill in Glenrothes is, perhaps unusually for a Scottish paper mill, doing very well, thank you. In fact it's doing so well that the elderly coal-fired power plant is going to be replaced by a brand-new 45MW combined heat and power biomass power station, as approved-of by Greenpeace. To build this plant, some old parts of the mill are going to be demolished - so this explore is of the non-live parts though they're connected to live parts all over.
Anyway, less talky, more piccy:
And finally, what I came to see - the rag boilers:
The employee-owned Tullis Russell paper mill in Glenrothes is, perhaps unusually for a Scottish paper mill, doing very well, thank you. In fact it's doing so well that the elderly coal-fired power plant is going to be replaced by a brand-new 45MW combined heat and power biomass power station, as approved-of by Greenpeace. To build this plant, some old parts of the mill are going to be demolished - so this explore is of the non-live parts though they're connected to live parts all over.
Anyway, less talky, more piccy:
And finally, what I came to see - the rag boilers: