History and Growth

2014 – Chinook Sciences announces Sharjah project

In May 2014 Chinook Sciences and Chinook Energy announced a major project to deliver and construct the world’s largest gasification & pyrolysis recycling and energy-from-waste plant in Sharjah, UAE. The plant size is over £300m in total value and will process approximately half a million tones of municipal and other wastes each year with a carbon off-set of approximately 400,000 tonnes CO2 per annum.

2014 - Chinook Sciences Wins Queens Award for Enterprise in Innovation

April 2014 saw Chinook Sciences named as a winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation, the UK’s highest accolade for business success.

2014 - Chinook Sciences Wins Environment and Energy Award for Innovation

In April of 2014, the 20th Annual Environment and Energy Awards awarded Chinook Sciences with the most innovative company in the Energy from Waste Category for its patented End Stage Recycling® Technology with Renewable Energy generation.

2013 - UK Treasury backs new Chinook plants

In October 2013 it was announced that multiple Chinook renewable energy plants across the UK were pre-approved for the £40bn UK Infrastructure Guarantee Scheme.

2013 - Chinook Sciences wins Nottinghamshire Best Business Award for 2013

In October 2013 Chinook Sciences was awarded the Excellence in Innovation award by the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce in the annual Best Business Awards.

2013 - Partnership for Scottish energy from waste plant announced

In August 2013 Chinook Sciences announced a strategic partnership between Chinook Sciences' energy division Chinook Energy and Shore Energy, to build a plant to process up to 160,000 tonnes of refuse derived fuel. The energy from waste plant will be located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland and will be the first in a planned series of facilities as part of the joint venture.

2012 - Biffa bid 

In August 2012 Chinook Urban Mining (in which Chinook Sciences has a minority interest) submitted a £520 million cash offer for Biffa in partnership with private equity firms including Clearbrook Capital.

2012 - Construction begins on Innovative Environmental Solutions plant in Oldbury UK

In June 2012 the construction began on the IES ASR plant at Oldbury in the West Midlands, which will recover over 10,000 tonnes of metal and generate  40 MW of environmentally sustainable electricity.

2011 - Opening of world's largest Advanced Thermal Treatment R&D facility

Chinook further expanded its extensive R&D operations with a substantial R&D and Development Facility in Nottingham, close to the Company’s Engineering & Development Headquarters. The facility houses a 9th generation RODECS system with full gas engine power generation.

2010 - Office and workforce expansion

Chinook Sciences' headquarters were relocated to the Nottingham Science Park in October of 2010. This led to a doubling of the workforce from 45 to 90 over the following year including the expansion and upgrade of the Command and Control Centre.

2009 - Announcement of Innovative Environmental Solutions UK LTD.

In March 2009 Chinook announced the formation of Innovative Environmental Solutions UK Limited. a joint venture with European Metal Recycling (EMR) it will be the worlds first commercial scale enterprise to generate renewable electricity from auto mobile shredder residue (ASR). 

2008-2010 - Four more Chinook plants begin operation

Between 2008 and 2010 Chinook begin operation of four additional plants producing metal and syngas from low quality metal scrap and waste.

2005 - Formation of Chinook Energy

Chinook Sciences announced the formation of Chinook Energy in 2005 and expanded the application of our world leading gasification and pyrolysis technology into the field of waste to energy.

2005 - The RODECS® technology installed in 11 locations

Chinook built and installed  RODECS® systems to service the metal reclamation industry into 11 locations around the world by 2005. By this time the  RODECS®  system was on its fifth design generation and had a production capability of 15 cubic meters.

2004 - 3rd generation RODECS® system built

By 2004 Chinook was already on the 3rd generation of the  RODECS® system, with numerous improvements and a production capacity of 5 cubic meters.

2000 - First RODECS® system commissioned

In the years that followed the formation of the company, Chinook developed and built our breakthrough 
 RODECS® system which was originally designed to recover valuable materials such as metals and glass from waste. Chinook commissioned the first RODECS® system in 2000.

1998 - Formation

Chinook Sciences was formed in 1998 by a research group of experts in nuclear, thermal and gas processing. Originally formed to support those industries the company soon changed its focus to becoming a technology and equipment provider for the metal, industries gasses and environmental industries.

Quality and environmental policy

Chinook is fully certified for quality & environmental compliance.

Quality Policy (9001)

Chinook has been granted the ISO 9001 certificate in recognition of our quality management systems in customer satisfaction.

Environmental Policy (14001)

Chinook has been granted the ISO 14001 certificate in recognition of our dedication to continuous improvements in our environmental performance and reduction on our impact on the environment wherever possible.

Chinook recognises that concern for the environment should be an integral and fundamental part of our business.

General (9001 & 14001)

The contents of our policies shall be communicated to all personnel through induction training and its understanding verified during internal audits.

We are committed to complying with the requirements of our management systems and shall strive to continually improve the performance and effectiveness of our systems.

The performance of our management systems and our objectives shall be reviewed to ensure their effectiveness and continued suitability at our 12 month management review meetings.

Realising the immense potential for application in the field, Chinook Sciences expanded the use of our world leading gasification and pyrolysis technology into energy from waste in 2005 and have since become a world leader in this  market.

Because of the unique features of our RODECS® technology, Chinook Sciences has been able to build and operate a number of successful energy from waste plants around the world. These combine recycling and energy recovery  by processing any type of organic based feedstock to produce a high-quality syngas which is then used to fuel gas engines, with the recovered heat energy also used to generate additional power in a steam turbine, resulting in a genuine combined cycle system in highly efficient energy from waste  power plant.

Our unparalleled technology holds more than a 100 granted patents that protects all aspects of our energy from waste process. And our projects are supported by our engineering group that have an outstanding history as a technology developer, successful original equipment manufacturer, competent EPC contractor and experienced plant operator. With over 14 years of experience in developing gasification plants (more than any other technology developer) our engineering group also has the highest calibre technical skills in the industry in planning, designing, constructing, managing, installing and commissioning gasification plants.