Energy Efficiency: Page 3

AFIA publishes energy management guidelines

In order to assist the feed industry in the conservation of resources, preservation of the environment and reduction of cost in the area of energy management, the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has published an updated "Energy Management Guidance Document."

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Nestle unveils solar array at petfood manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Nestle Purina PetCare unveiled the company's largest solar array at its petfood manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The solar array, designed and installed by United Renewable Energy, is comprised of nearly 1,900 solar panels, which will produce more than 585,000 kilowatt hours of clean, sustainable energy each year.

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The green effort: Petfood companies support sustainability

Staying sustainable may be a topical trend in the media or a consumer-driven marketing tool according to some, but I applaud petfood companies who go out of their way to make their production and facilities more eco-friendly. Shrinking your carbon footprint also significantly reduces costs-something even the staunchest cynic can't argue with.

Petfood manufacturers should study their processes from an environmental perspective and reduce their negative impact on the Earth.

How to: Save energy with extrusion, drying and cooling equipment

Running an energy-efficient petfood processing line isn't just important for the environment—it's important to your company's bottom line. Alternative cooking processes like pasteurization and direct contact steam injection can help by removing pathogens and sealing in flavor at lower cooking temperatures, while sanitation-obsessed machinery and operator-friendly cooking equipment can make processes run faster and smoother.

Our list of petfood and treat extruders, dryers, coolers and cookers will help manufacturers go 'green' in energy costs and their wallets.

Petfood goes green

When our industry looks back at 2009, we might consider it the year of the greening of petfood, at least in the US. This year has seen the opening of several new or retrofitted US facilities-plants and office buildings, for manufacturers and suppliers-designed to be more environmentally friendly.

Survey respondents see energy conservation as a leading source of return on sustainability investment.

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Feeding strategies for reducing methane

By changing feeding techniques and boosting efficiency, methane emissions can be curbed.

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15 steps to energy savings

It doesn't always take large capital investments to realize improvements in the bottom line.

Purina plant uses solar power

Nestlé Purina PetCare officially unveiled and dedicated the company’s new solar-panel array May 14 at the company’s petfood plant in Denver, Colorado, USA, according to an article from the Denver Business Journal.

Save energy

In the petfood industry we use massive amounts of energy. With the combination of ever increasing energy costs and public and legislative pressure to reduce energy use, now is the time to increase efforts to measure and minimize energy costs.

Map out your processes before starting detailed measurements or committing money to expensive instrumentation.

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