JEDA Finances Fly Ash Recycling Plant for The SEFA Group, Inc.

June 30, 2014

GEORGETOWN, SC – The South Carolina Jobs-Economic Development Authority (JEDA) has issued 40 million dollars in tax-exempt revenue bonds to help The SEFA Group create a coal fly ash recycling facility in Georgetown.

The Series 2014 bonds will be used to buy and equip a recycle facility on Steam Plant Drive. The SEFA Group, Inc., a Lexington, South Carolina based company, will use its proprietary processes to recycle high carbon fly ash and stored ponded ash from the Santee Cooper Winyah Electric Generating Station to be beneficially utilized as a replacement for Portland cement. Coal fly ash byproducts from other Santee Cooper electric generating stations may also be recycled when the facility reaches its capacity of 400,000 tons per year.

 

About JEDA

For more than 30 years, JEDA has promoted the business and economic welfare of South Carolina by assisting in the financing of public and private projects throughout the Palmetto State. JEDA serves as a statewide conduit issuer of special obligation revenue bonds and acts on behalf of the borrower to access financial markets and capital. Since its creation in 1983, JEDA has facilitated the issuance of 446 bonds for over 8.1 billion and resulting in the creation and retention of more than 213,000 jobs.

For more information regarding JEDA, please visit our website at www.scjeda.com or contact 
Harry A. Huntley, CPA, Executive Director, at (803) 737-0268 or [email protected].