(Reuters) -London Fire Brigade said on Tuesday that 15 fire engines and around 100 firefighters have been called to a fire at a factory on Rigby Lane in Hayes.
The cause of the fire is not known at this time, London Fire Brigade said on its website.
A factory containing around 400 tonnes of waste recycling is alight, it said, adding around 10 gas cylinders had been removed as a precaution as some could explode when exposed to heat.
Details on the extent of damage were not known immediately.
(Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue and Himani Sarkar)