Both Vyncke and Bühler have set the goal of reducing energy consumption in all new food plants by at least 50 per cent by 2025
Bühler Group and Vyncke have formed a strategic partnership to offer integrated solutions with which biomass side stream products are transformed into clean process energy while reducing the customers’ carbon footprint. The dependency on fossil fuels– and with this, CO2 emissions– can decrease from 20 to 100 per cent, depending on the raw material and side stream products. This means that in some cases, food plants can become fully carbon neutral. The first focus of the partnership is the segments of cocoa, oat, and malt processing.
Belgian technology supplier Vyncke specializes in energy production from a wide range of biomass by-products, including industrial or municipal wastes. Vyncke designs and builds green and clean energy systems that combust biomass and waste to produce thermal process energy from 1-100 megawatt-hours (Mwh) and electrical energy from 0.5 -15 megawatt electrical (Mwe).
With their cooperation, Bühler Group and Vyncke are addressing this issue to develop solutions for more sustainable food production – with holistic process chains in which energy recovery is integrated so that external energy consumption and energy costs can be reduced.
Both Vyncke and Bühler have set the goal of reducing energy consumption in all new food plants by at least 50 per cent by 2025. Together, both partners want to create the possibility of making malting plants CO 2 neutral. The project in Uruguay is just the beginning. In the future, both partners intend to coordinate their solutions technologically in a targeted manner.
Image caption- Left to right: Peter VYNCKE (Co-CEO, VYNCKE) and Johannes Wick (CEO, Bühler Grains & Food)