A Teesside chemical plant is celebrating an environmentally friendly achievement.
Terra Nitrogen has opened a new visitor centre and biodiversity project at its site in Billingham.
The firm decided to move the main entrance to its site from Belasis Avenue to Haverton Hill Road to reduce industrial traffic in a mainly residential area with nearby schools.
It also gave Terra Nitrogren the opportunity to improve its visitor reception facilities and security.
As a long standing member of INCA - Industry's Nature Conservation Association - it worked with the group to get the work done in an environmentally friendly manner.
As well as updating the former East Gate to become the new main entrance, the project developed to include a wildlife pond and wildlife meadow.
Pupils from High Clarence Primary School helped celebrate the completion of the work by adding frogs and tadpoles to the new pond.
It is hoped the pond and meadows, along with the newly planted trees and bird boxes, will attract a variety of wildlife to the site.
Managing director of Terra Nitrogen, Carol Devlin, who opened the new entrance with help from local councillor Jean O'Donnell, said: "This is the first time Terrace Nitrogen has undertaken a biodiversity project and we are really pleased with what has been achieved so far."
She added the company was hoping to develop this, and other projects, at the site.
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