Industrial
Incinerators

Work from arisings, not from chamber size. Take your weekly waste in kilogrammes, divide by the number of days you are willing to run the unit, and compare that against the burn rate. LitBurn LBI units are rated continuously — an LBI-250 clears 250 kg every hour it runs. The AgriBurn, AmoBurn and AniBurn units are batch machines: the number in the model name is the load per charge, burnt at under 50 kg/h, so a full charge is a cycle of several hours — roughly four to eleven across the range, confirmed at commissioning — measured from first load to complete burn-down. A 500 kg batch unit and a 500 kg/h continuous unit are very different machines despite the same headline number.

In almost all cases, yes. Burning waste in England or Wales requires an environmental permit from the Environment Agency, with SEPA and NIEA covering Scotland and Northern Ireland. Smaller, well-defined operations may fit a standard rules permit; hazardous, clinical and higher-throughput operations need a bespoke permit including dispersion modelling. Animal by-products need separate APHA approval on top. We supply the technical data pack the application relies on.

The Environment Agency's target is to determine a new environmental permit application within 13 weeks of it being duly made. Bespoke applications — which is what hazardous, clinical and higher-throughput operations need — routinely run longer, and the dispersion assessment and technical data pack have to be prepared before the clock starts. In practice the consent route, not the equipment, sets the date of the first burn, which is why we start it before the unit is ordered.

Not as a blanket catalogue claim, and you should be wary of any manufacturer who makes one without naming the approved model — approval attaches to a specific plant that has been through the process, not to a product family. The units are built to the conditions approval is assessed against: the Industrial Emissions Directive 850°C two-second combustion condition, monitoring provision, construction standard and full combustion logging. What stands between that and a stamp is the cost and duration of the approval programme, not the capability of the machine. Where your waste stream needs an APHA-approved plant under the Animal By-Products Regulations, we agree the approval route with you at order and run it as part of the delivery programme. Raise it at enquiry rather than after the order, because it changes both the unit and the paperwork.

The range is designed by EnerTherm Engineering in Peterborough and manufactured in Britain. Our Managing Director, Dr François Pierrel, holds a PhD in Heat Transfer from Cranfield University and a post-doctorate from Heriot-Watt, and developed a UK manufacturer's incinerator range between 2011 and 2014 before this one. EnerTherm has delivered solid waste incinerators for multiple UK customers, including an incinerator with integrated heat recovery for a well-known international watch manufacturer, and works across more than 50 industry sectors.

Commissioning, combustion tuning against your actual waste stream and operator training are included with every unit, along with set-up of the combustion-data export the permit requires you to keep. Servicing and inspection intervals run three to six months depending on utilisation and cover burner inspection, ash system checks and control panel diagnostics. The Coretex refractory lining is a wear item that is repaired in place rather than replaced wholesale. Spares are held in Britain because the units are built here, and remote monitoring can be configured at commissioning where the site wants it.

The saving comes from mass, not magic. Complete combustion at 850–1,200°C leaves 3–5% ash, so 100 tonnes of waste leaves site as 3–5 tonnes. You still pay to dispose of the ash, and you pay for fuel and maintenance, but you stop paying gate fees and Landfill Tax on the other 95–97%. With the England and Northern Ireland Landfill Tax standard rate at £130.75 per tonne from 1 April 2026, the tax alone on 100 tonnes is over £13,000 before any gate fee or haulage. The calculator above works this through with your own numbers.

Across the range: municipal and commercial general waste, manufacturing by-products, textiles, rubber and plastics, clinical and pathological waste, pharmaceutical residues, contaminated soils and oil-soaked materials, agricultural residues and bedding, animal carcasses, and secure defence waste including classified document destruction. Each family is optimised for a specific stream — LitBurn for general and industrial, AgriBurn for agricultural, AmoBurn for military and defence, AniBurn for animal carcass.

All units support multi-fuel operation: natural gas, hydrogen, diesel, LPG and biofuel. Hydrogen-ready burners are fitted as standard so the unit does not become a stranded asset as sites decarbonise. The optional Waste Pre-Dry system halves fuel consumption on wet waste by driving off moisture using recovered heat before the charge reaches the primary chamber.

All models reach operating temperature within 30 minutes. Operating range is 850–1,200°C with a 2.0-second gas retention time in the secondary chamber, which is the Industrial Emissions Directive condition for complete combustion.

Yes, and on the larger units it is usually worth doing. Options are water pre-heating at 70–95°C, waste heat to steam at 2–10 bar, and electrical generation at 3–15 kW. The economics depend on whether you have a continuous heat or hot water demand on site — a unit that runs three hours a week will not pay back a steam package.

Burner inspection, refractory condition checks, ash removal (manual or automated), and control panel diagnostics. Typical inspection intervals are three to six months depending on utilisation. The 8–12 mm steel shell and Coretex refractory lining are specified for extended service life, and refractory is a wear item that is repaired rather than replaced wholesale.

Yes. All units are manufactured in Britain with 8–12 mm steel construction, high-temperature scratch-resistant paint, cool-touch cladding for operator safety, and IP6X rated control panels. UK manufacture also means spare parts and service engineers are not on a container ship when a burner fails.