A $5.6 million project to eliminate CO2 emissions and reduce demand for heating fuel at McCain’s Timaru factory will soon use woodchips to make potato chips. The company is converting its boiler from coal to domestically sourced woodchips, which will help McCain reduce its carbon emissions by approximately 30,000 tons per year as part of its objective to avoid coal use by 2025.
The Timaru plant’s manager Jordan Jurcina said this will be one project in a group of projects to reduce carbon emissions at McCain: “It's important to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the company. Once the project is commissioned next week, the Timaru branch will be the first carbon zero McCain plant in Australia and New Zealand.”
Source: stuff.co.nz
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