The project is aimed at unlocking the future of carbon capture as it demonstrates the viability of the technology to remove carbon dioxide from power plant emissions and to use it in high-end manufacturing applications. The UK plant captures 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year - the equivalent to taking over 20,000 cars off the roads - and reduces TCE's carbon emissions by more than 10 per cent. Since 2000 we've reduced our carbon intensity by 50 per cent and have a clear roadmap to reduce this by 80 per cent by 2030," he said. "With the support of our parent company, Tata Chemicals, and BEIS, we have been able to deliver this hugely innovative project, enabling our UK operations to take a major step in our carbon emissions reduction journey. "The completion of the carbon capture and utilisation plant enables us to reduce our carbon emissions, whilst securing our supply of high purity carbon dioxide, a critical raw material, helping us to grow the export of our pharmaceutical-grade products across the world, said Martin Ashcroft, Managing Director of Tata Chemicals Europe. These are used to make essential everyday items like glass, washing detergents, pharmaceutical products, food, animal feed and in water purification. The carbon capture plant, which was supported with a grant through the UK government's Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's (BEIS) Energy Innovation Programme, has been hailed as a major step towards sustainable manufacturing which will see TCE make net-zero sodium bicarbonate and one of the lowest carbon footprint sodium carbonate products in the world. "Ecokarb will be exported to over 60 countries around the world and much of the sodium bicarbonate exported will be used in haemodialysis to treat people living with kidney disease," it said. "This unique and innovative process behind Ecokarb is patented in the UK with further patents pending in key territories around the world," TCE said. In a 'world-first', carbon dioxide captured from energy generation emissions is being purified to food and pharmaceutical grade and used as a raw material in the manufacture of sodium bicarbonate, which will be known as Ecokarb and has potential life-saving uses. The company claims it is now able to manufacture one of the lowest carbon footprint sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate products in the world, chemicals used to make a wide array of everyday items seen in many households. Both long-time followers of Cavanaugh’s work-from the earliest “Sock Arms” paintings to those who found her through more recent work like the Chroma series-and those who are discovering her and her art for the first time, will be delighted by this collection.The 20 million pound investment was completed by Northwich-based Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) in north-west England, one of Europe's leading producers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate. These are lovely works, painted masterfully. This volume illustrates her growth as an artist and her mastery of the technique. She developed her stunning modern fresco medium almost by accident as she was learning to apply the outer layer of plaster to her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her dependence on the visual world began when she lost much of her hearing through spinal meningitis when she was two, and her creative spirit developed out of her being raised in a rural environment where she had to create her own ways of expressing herself and making her own fun. Beginning with her hyper-realistic portraits and ending with her latest, more free-flowing pictures, her use of light, color, and the human form captures the essence of her models and their forms and feelings in a particular moment.Ĭavanaugh’s artistic sensibility was developed by two important events in her childhood. “Modern Fresco Paintings is the first collection of Ali Cavanaugh’s paintings, and it follows her entire career using watercolor on kaolin clay to create her modern fresco technique and the lovely work that flows from it.
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