$30m Clydevale Biomass Boiler Fully Commissioned
November 25, 2022
PHOTO: RICHARD DAVISON
French food group Danone has flicked the switch on a new $30 million biomass boiler for its Clydevale dairy plant. The company says it is New Zealand’s first dairy spray drying plant powered exclusively by biomass fuel, which comes from locally sourced forestry waste.
Danone says the now fully commissioned biomass boiler will reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 20,000 tonnes a year - equivalent to removing 10,000 petrol or diesel-powered cars from New Zealand’s roads.
Combined with the use of 100 percent renewable electricity at the plant, CO2 emissions will be reduced by 95 percent, helping to underpin Danone’s global pledge to be a net-zero carbon company by 2050, the company says.