SCOTS whisky firm Chivas Brothers opened the doorways of its distillery to the broader spirits business this week to share its current success.
The open home occasion passed off within the Glentauchers distillery as the corporate celebrated their profitable implementation of warmth restoration know-how on the website.
They made the design and implementation findings of this know-how open supply in July, inviting different gamers within the business to be taught from its journey to web zero.
Within the pursuit of a collaborative effort, greater than 130 business friends spanning sustainability, manufacturing and engineering roles from distilleries attended the occasion.??
Individuals learnt concerning the deployment of warmth restoration know-how to seize and recycle the warmth generated in distillation that may in any other case go to waste, in addition to its potential to scale back power and carbon emissions.??
Glentauchers distillery, positioned close to Keith in Speyside, not too long ago decreased its whole power consumption inside the distillation course of by virtually half (48%).
In addition they decreased the positioning’s whole carbon emissions by 53%, following the profitable implementation of Mechanical Vapour Recompression and Thermo Vapour Recompression.
Chivas Brothers estimates that if utilized by the broader business’s malt distilleries alone, these applied sciences might equate to a saving of some 1,756Gwh per yr.
This is sufficient to energy 605,000 common houses for a yr, greater than the quantity in Edinburgh and Aberdeen mixed.?
Brian MacAulay, Malt Distilling & Operations Director at Chivas Brothers, stated: “Assembly so many individuals from throughout the business facilitated discussions concerning the methods by which we will be taught and evolve to learn one another, the business at giant, and naturally cut back our impression on the planet.
“Though not each distillery will be capable to implement warmth restoration applied sciences, they’ve enormous potential to speed up our collective journey to web zero.
“As a enterprise, we’re dedicated to opening as much as form the way forward for whisky; business collaboration will probably be very important in making a sustainable dwelling for Scotch within the years to come back.”
Chivas Brothers has dedicated to attaining carbon-neutral distillation by the top of 2026.
