Our Company

• Public company, traded on UK AIM market (HSP.L).
• Leading provider of services to customers in the energy, waste and transport sectors.
• Group turnover £404m (Year ended 31 May 2008).
• 2,200 employees.
• Large portfolio of strategic assets including Maltby Colliery, Monckton Coke works and coal terminals at Immingham, Newport and Ghent (Belgium).
• Largest independent importer of coal into the UK.
• Leading importer of coke and refractory minerals into Europe.
• Largest bulk haulage transport fleet in the UK.

• Maltby Colliery opened in 1907. It is one of only six deep mines left in England.
• The mine generates 60% of its power consumption from methane extracted from the mine.
• Maltby occupies a site of 500 acres and employs over 500 staff and contractors.
• Maltby is the last coking coal mine left in the UK and produces both high quality coking coal and power station coal.
• The coking coal produced at the mine is sold to Monckton coke works which was founded in 1879 and is the last independent coke producer in the UK.
• Monckton operates continuously, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• The low phosphorous qualities of the Maltby coal produce a coke which commands a premium price with specialist alloy producers – approximately half the output is exported to such producers in Scandinavia.
• Monckton Rubber Technologies produces a high quality rubber crumb that is used for sports and equestrian surfaces and carpet backing.
• Maxibrite is one of the last three producers of smokeless fuel briquettes in the UK and supplies more than 70,000 tonnes of product for UK and European markets.

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• Blue chip customers include British Energy, Drax, Scottish and Southern Energy, Eon, Alcan and Welsh Power.
• Our German operation is one of the largest independent importers of coke and refractory materials into Europe, with products being sourced from China and Colombia.
• The bulk of our imported coal into the UK comes from Russia, Colombia, USA, and South Africa.
• Coal4Energy has become a key supplier of sized coal to the industrial and domestic markets.
• Power stations produce ash, representing approximately 10% of coal burned in the power station. Our ash business helped dispose of over 1.4m tonnes of ash this year.
• Rocfuel sources solid and liquid biomass for marketing to power plants and industrial combustion installations, enabling customers to meet their renewable obligations and carbon abatement strategies.
• Our new Rocpower venture provides integrated and packaged solutions for off-grid micro-generation using renewable fuel sourced by Rocfuel.

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• Following the acquisition of Imperial Tankers, we are now one of the top five road tanker operators in the UK, with 200 tankers operating from seven strategically located depots.
• A significant portion of the tanker fleet’s work is under long term contracts, all of which are fuel price indexed.
• Our bulk material transport fleet is the largest in the UK with 200 owned vehicles and the same again in sub-contract vehicles.
• The bulk materials fleet moved more than 9m tonnes of materials this year – more than 360,000 truck movements.
• The transport fleet moves ash for the Energy & Commodities Division, coal and coke for the Production Division and works closely with the Industrial Services Division on power station sites.
• We operate the UK’s largest inland canal barge fleet for the haulage of bulk materials.

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• The Industrial Services division employs in excess of 800 staff, operating 30 service related contracts in 18 different locations.
• Its blue chip customer base includes Scottish Power, Eon, British Energy, Scottish and Southern Energy and EDF.
• Key material handling operations are responsible for handling in excess of 32m tonnes of coal and over 2m tonnes of ash.
• The Killingholme bulk material warehousing operation handles over 275,000 tonnes of material each year and stores up to 75,000 tonnes at any point in time.
• Health and Safety is key in this sector – the division prides itself in having secured Five Star Certification from the BSC for its Health and Safety Management Systems, at eight key sites and having won four prestigious Swords of Honour this year alone.
• The acquisition of AJS Contracts adds engineering fabrication services to the division’s portfolio of services.

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