The plant was built with the financial assistance of the Welsh Assembly Government through the European Union Regional Selective Assistance Scheme, and marks an important stage in the development of the laundry.
The company is believed be the first commercial laundry in Europe to take full responsibility for the treatment of its waste water, and the plant will bring its trade effluent up to the highest environmental standards required by the Environment Agency for Wales, in line with the European Union Coastal Waters Directive. Afonwen's effluent is discharged direct into the Irish Sea through a pipe exclusively used by Afonwen provided by Dwr Cymru, the local water authority.
TREATMENT PLANT: Ieuan Wyn Jones, the Deputy First Minister of the Welsh Assembly Government is pictured with Mark Woolfenden, MD of Afonwen Laundry at the official opening of the £650,000 waste water treatment plant. Afonwen opening
