Coal & Distribution Centre

In response to customer demand for increasingly better quality products Celtic Energy took the decision in 1998 to build a new state of the art coal preparation plant capable of processing the production from all its sites. The significant investment required for such a facility was a sign of Celtic's long term commitment in the Coal Industry. Based on modern Heavy Media separation techniques and computer technology the new plant has the capability to produce cleaner products far more consistently than ever before.

The plant, based around a Heavy Media Drum Separator for coal greater than 22 mm and Heavy Media cyclones for the small coal, can operate up to 24 hours per day processing up to 26,000 tonnes per week of raw mined production and converting it to top quality anthracite products. The plant produces 5 different sizes of products in each of the 3 different coal qualities, Black Diamond, Premium and Economy. In addition, specialist coals with unique size qualities are produced on a batch basis for major customers.

The Froth Flotation Plant at Onllwyn was constructed in 2005 as a facility for recovery of fine coal from Washery slurry, which had until then been treated as discard.

Coal is despatched to customers in a variety of ways from road vehicles loaded directly from plant production, lorries loaded from stock over purpose designed wet and dry screening facilities, to road and rail borne container deliveries and bulk rail deliveries in train sizes up to 1400 tonnes. Any queries relating to the services provided by Celtic Energy Ltd. should be sent to: info@coal.com

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