Esken Renewables

Esken Renewables (Formally Stobart Biomass Holdings Ltd trading as Stobart Energy and formerly Stobart Biomass) is the largest supplier of biomass fuel in the United Kingdom. Esken Renewables comes under the Energy division of Esken.

Esken Renewables
TypePrivate limited company
IndustryBiomass fuel supplying
Founded2009
FounderAndrew Tinkler
HeadquartersWidnes, Cheshire, England
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Richard Jenkins
(Chief Executive Officer)
ParentEsken
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.eskenrenewables.com

History

The original company

On 24 March 2010, the Stobart Group announced the purchase of 50% of A. W. Jenkinson Biomass Ltd, from A. W. Jenkinson Forest Products, for £30 million, as an equal mix of cash and shares. A. W. Jenkinson Biomass Ltd was then renamed Stobart Biomass Products Ltd. Stobart Biomass transports sustainable wood products for use in low-carbon emission power plants, producing electricity at both large and small scale power plants, including for export.[1] The Stobart Group announced in 2011 that it was buying the remaining 50% of Stobart Biomass Products it did not already own for £20 million.[2]

Esken Renewables (Formally Stobart Energy)

Following Stobart Group's partial realisation of its Transport and Distribution division, Stobart Group decided to invest £55 million of the proceeds to expand its Biomass division into Green Energy, thus changing the division's name to Stobart Energy in the process.[3]

Operations

Esken Renewables is the UK's largest supplier of biomass fuel. The company operates six wood management sites supplying 2 million tonnes of biomass per year via 135 walking floor trailers.

Esken Renewables operates six processing and storage sites (one with its own port facilities) and two other port operations and a drying facility to receive waste wood from across the UK.

See also

References
  1. "AW Jenkinson and Stobart Group secure £5m deal with BSW Timber". Commercial Motor. 22 June 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  2. "Stobarts' buyback plans no transport of delight for confused investors". The Telegraph. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  3. "Stobart family gets back behind the wheel of famous lorry company". The Guardian. 6 March 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
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