Tata Steel Treatment Plant Replacement Background Tata Steel in Shotton produces pre-finished steel, primarily for the domestic appliance and construction industry, and generates some 45,000m 3 per annum of metals laden effluent, primarily dissolved Zinc. However with the effluent plant built in 1976 and having been designed to cater for a time when the site was an integrated steel plant, the Tata team recognised that change was necessary. They needed equipment to pilot a new treatment process with the aim of ultimately phasing out the old treatment plant. The Overall Objective The aim of the pilot plant was to test a new treatment process, which would reduce treatment costs and meet the site’s longer term needs. The site’s own projects team worked with their colleagues from Tata’s Swinde

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