Which contractors are joining the HVO revolution?

As pressure mounts from governments and consumers around the world to reduce carbon, contractors are switching from diesel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), an oil produced from chip fat and other waste oils, to power their equipment. Lucy Barnard finds out how.

It’s a sunny morning in Alfreton, a town in Derbyshire in the UK, but staff at demolition contractor Cawarden are feeling nervous.

At last, to everyone’s relief, a white fuel tanker pulls into the parking lot and pulls up alongside a Cawarden-branded Komatsu excavator – the green fuel delivery has…

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