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Silver Fern Farms - bio-fuel from waste waterNew technology is turning sludge from waste water into a valuable bio-fuel for a Southland meat processing plant. Silver Fern Farms' Finegand plant now has a bubbling fluidised bed boiler, saving money and the environment. |
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Auckland Meat Processors - automated cleaningAuckland Meat Processors is using an automated cleaning method to clean some of its Otahuhu factory's moving processing tables. As well as reducing GHG emissions, the new method saved more than $200,000 in the first financial year. |
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Bakels edible oils - biofuel from waste oilMt Maunganui manufacturer Bakels Edible Oils has installed a dual-fuel boiler that has reduced natural gas use by using the factory's waste for fuel. The factory burns all its waste vegetable oils and tallow, and the new boiler has reduced their CO2 emissions by 1,378 tonnes per year. |
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Tegel Foods - heat recovery saves money and CO2Tegel Foods uses waste heat to pre-heat its hot water supply, saving more than $110,000 a year in gas and electricity. Much of the recovered heat comes from the refrigeration process at their New Plymouth poultry plant. The new system is also cutting the factory's carbon dioxide emissions by more than 600 tonnes a year. |
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Verkerks - tallow fuels boilerChristchurch meats producer Verkerks has sliced its energy costs by converting a boiler to burn tallow, a processing by-product. The boiler previously consumed around 7,000 litres of diesel every week. By burning tallow, energy costs are expected to be cut by $150,000 a year with payback within eight months. |
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Hawkes Bay Protein - heat recovery delivers savingsMeat renderer Hawkes Bay Protein installed a second vacuum condenser in addition to its existing condenser to recover ‘stickwater' energy previously lost to atmosphere. As a result the company is saving $33,000 a year, with the project expected to pay for itself in just over three years.
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Gelita - heat pump delivers savingsGelita installed a hot water heat pump - and is saving about $230,000 p.a. in the process.
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Goodman Fielder - boiler tune-up produces significant savings
Just five months after Goodman Fielder had the boilers at its Meadow Fresh dairy plant serviced, another simple burner tune-up delivered savings of $45,000 per year. |
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