Veolia Environmental Services was the other firm fighting to run the incinerator, and whose spokesperson said it believed it was "sympathetic with the local environment and represented a unique opportunity to use the residual waste to provide a secure source of sustainable energy and heat to the neighbouring Tata Steel steelworks - a majorsource of employment in the area".
With over 42, 000 graduates, two-thirds of whom live and work in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, Fox is a majorsource of management talent in the region and has close relations with business.