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The Environmental Technologies and Services industry (ETS) in Cheshire is incredibly diverse, highly profitable and growing rapidly.  With a strong commercial heritage and hundreds of years of industrial development, the County has an extensive economic, transport and skills infrastructure and a significant share of the UK ETS market.

With 240 large, medium and small sized companies and 6,000 skilled personnel, operating in the fields of air pollution control, waste management and recycling, as well as environmental consultancy, energy management and low carbon technologies, the industry is able to capitalise on major market opportunities locally, nationally and internationally.

Future growth is assured, fuelled by the developed world’s drive for a cleaner environment and more efficient management of natural resources.

Major companies in this sector include: Air Products (gases) Ltd, AMEC NNC Ltd, Laker Vent Engineering Ltd, Siemens plc and Urenco (Capenhurst) Ltd.

Please click on the following links for more information:

Reports and downloads

• ETS Sector Factsheet
• ETS Sector Map
• Living in Cheshire
• Quality of Life

Useful links

• Envirolink North West
• North West Development Agency (NWDA)
• Cheshire Renewable Energy Initiative
• Envirowise
• Joule Centre
• University of Central Lancashire – Department of Built Environment and
    Centre of Waste Management
• Lancaster University – Lancaster Environment Centre
• Liverpool John Moores – Faculty of Technology and Environment 
• School of Biological and Earth Sciences
• The University of Liverpool – Acoustics Research Unit 
• The University of Manchester – Williamson Research Centre

Transport and Regeneration
Tel: 01244 972664 Fax: 01244 973003
E-mail econdev@cheshire.gov.uk