The Hardstaff Group - Using Natural Gas recovered from landfill waste for road transport!
In collaboration with Gasrec, the first commercial producer of liquefied biogas (LBG), T Baden Hardstaff Ltd or better known as Hardstaff Haulage became the first major haulage company in the UK & Europe to use natural gas recovered from landfill waste. Though the Hardstaff group have been using natural gas to power a large proportion of their own fleet, this is another first. Trevor Fletcher, MD of the Hardstaff Group comments "This is a major milestone in Hardstaff's history. With a strong orientation to work in harmony with the environment we are committed to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and improving the effect our business has on the environment. LBG is a viable renewable alternative to fossil fuels which will significantly reduce our CO2 emissions even further."
Since the launch of the Gasrec liquefaction plant at Albury near Guildford in Surrey on the 25th June 2008, Portal Gas Services, a member of the Hardstaff Group of companies, has formed a partnership with Gasrec to manage the logistics and bulk transportation of their LBG.
LBG otherwise known as Liquid Bio Methane (LBM) is primarily rich in methane gas. At the Albury plant, the LBG/LBM is more than 97% methane, and can be directly substituted for both LCNG (Liquefied Compressed Natural Gas) and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) derived from fossil natural gas for use in gas powered and dual-fuel vehicles.
Portal Gas Services' unique LCNG station located at their Nottingham headquarters, is the first station to reform bio-methane from a liquid state allowing the Hardstaff logistics vehicles to operate on both renewable LNG and renewable CNG.
