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Dagenham Dock

A pioneering location for environmental technology businesses

The Sustainable Industries Park within the Thames Gateway will be the UK’s largest concentration of environmental technology companie.  It plans to provide a national showcase for businesses delivering recycling and reprocessing facilitiets, waste-to-energy and combined heat and power schemes and renewable energy techniques.

The SIP will include an onsite centre of excellence in the Thames Gateway Institute of Sustainability, which will provide tenants with access to national and international networks and world class research teams to support their businesses.

SIP’s first tenant, Closed Loop London, offers recyclable plastic packaging solutions to clients such as Marks & Spencer and Nampak.  In 2008, it opened its first facility in the UK to produce both food grade recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

Located adjacent to the A13 dual carriageway, 10 miles away from central London and six miles from the M25 motorway, the SIP enjoys prominent position with good transport and infrastructure links.

Dagenham – Sustainable Industries Park (SIP) - Cyclamax

The Cyclamax site will be opening at the Dagenham Dock Sustainable Industries Park in 2012.  By using commercial waste to generate 15MW, it will create enough power for 20,000 homes.

Cyclamax will divert thousands of tonnes of waste away from landfill.  It chose the Thames Gateway as its new location for the exceptional available space and its proximity to potential and existing suppliers and the connectivity to the National Grid. 

The Sustainable Industries Park is already home to two leading ‘clean tech’ projects:

Closed Loop which focuses on recycling waste plastic into re-usable food packaging; and Voltaic, the award-winning warehouse/logistics centre, which uses the newest environmental friendly technologies.

Why come to Dagenham Dock?

• The proximity to London offers the largest resource opportunity in the UK – the need for recycling and materials reprocessing is enormous. London will be producing 22 million tons of waste material by 2020 and research shows that at least 14 million tones of this waste could be recycled
• Opportunity to take advantage of Research and development tax credits – each £100 of R&D in the UK now costs £62
• Grants available from government funded Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
• A wide range of properties to choose from – from purpose built small business units, to larger warehouse facilities
• An Institute for Sustainability is planned for 2011 – a world class research and development centre focusing on sustainable construction, renewable energy, waste, recycling and reuse, designed as a bridge between research, academia and industry