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refinery in Grangemouth, where we are based, which happened in May 2025. What we are truly focused on is building a successful business and scaling it up, and to do that we need good access to talented people.
“ While the demise of the refinery and other petrochemical businesses is obviously not great for the economy of Scotland and the UK in general, it does mean there are some exceptional people with skills and experience that are directly applicable to what we are trying to achieve from a biorefining perspective. Our approach to finding the best talent is twofold. First, we are recruiting people and transitioning their skills across the business. Secondly, we also know it is important to build our own core talent from the ground up. Hence, establishing our own apprenticeship program last year was a particularly crucial next step for us. We already hire a lot of graduates and work to develop graduate opportunities, but building apprenticeship programs is also a critical part of making sure we have a long-term, sustainable workforce that keeps on growing right here in Scotland,” he concludes.
Evidently, Celtic Renewables is a company at a turning point. Now that it has completed the difficult work of proving a process at scale, what lies ahead is the even larger task of turning that achievement into global commercial reality. The company’ s Grangemouth biorefinery, apprenticeship program and circular process integrations are not isolated initiatives but components of a careful process to ensure its longevity and success. In an industry where ambition often outpaces delivery, Celtic Renewables has done it the other way around, establishing proof of concept before setting its sights firmly on scale. ■
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