ORIGIN Ellesmere Port
ORIGIN - Driving the UK’s Green Industrial Revolution
ORIGIN was launched in May 2023.
Origin Ellesmere Port is the home to the businesses of the future, with a burgeoning net zero carbon industrial cluster already generating a gross development value of £1.4bn – a number that is due to more than double over the coming years as a further 332 acres of near-term developable land sits ready to be unlocked.
Origin is the start of something big.
Origin is an industrial cluster of businesses within Cheshire West and Chester Council. It has the potential generate £3.6bn annually for the UK and regional economy. Already Origin supports 1,300 businesses – and is home to over 650 businesses some of which are world leaders in glass manufacturing, automotive development, and carbon capture.
Origin has a clear purpose. It is looking towards the industrial future, not the past. It is a hub of innovators. It is the home of the green revolution.
And that revolution is already underway.
The nation’s powerhouse
From crafting the complex alloy systems that make your phones more durable to redefining the way we generate power – the businesses of Origin are at the forefront of daily life in the UK.
Encirc creates the bottles that we drink our wine and beer from. Less Common Metals’ magnetic products can be found in our electric vehicles, phones, and laptops. Stellantis manufactures electric vans. Innospec creates the chemical compounds that clean our kitchens and homes.
The companies of Origin are shaping the future.
Protos clusters together innovative technologies in energy generation and resource management that are leading the way on the clean growth agenda.
At Protos, Encyclis is developing a facility to convert non-recyclable waste into energy in a low-carbon way. Evero is also generating power from waste, this time from waste wood rescued from the landfill.
EET is developing capacity for manufacturing advanced sustainable aviation fuel, as well as a whole host of other low-carbon technology-driven fuels from its Stanlow Refinery base.
Then there’s HyNet, a major decarbonisation project aimed at the industrial sector that links hydrogen production with carbon capture and storage. Ellesmere Port is its hub and EET is one of its chief backers.
HyNet is collaborating with its partners and government to produce low carbon hydrogen to power factories and more. HyNet also provides for sequestering the carbon, storing it in Liverpool Bay, and thus preventing it from going to the atmosphere.
The work being done around HyNet and Protos Park puts Ellesmere Port at the forefront of not just a national push to decarbonise industry, but a global one.
The Great North Investment Prospectus sets out the major investment opportunities across the North, developed in collaboration with the Office for Investment. As devolution deepens and expands, this pipeline will continue to grow. The Great North Investment Summit took place in May 2026, which saw the launch of the prospectus highlighting the multi-billion-pound pipeline of opportunities across the North.
Origin at Ellesmere Port which combines hydrogen and CCUS infrastructure, is one of nine northern growth priorities identified by The Great North, Office for Investment and Treasury and highlighted as the UK’s most investor-ready, diverse clean energy cluster.
Find Origin featured on page 23 of the Great North Investment Prospectus