Bonduelle Fresh Americas reduces environmental impact with cogeneration system
The system will be able to self-produce more than 75% of its own energy, thus reducing the plant's dependence on the local power grid.
Bonduelle Fresh Americas, formerly Ready Pac Foods, installed an energy-efficient cogeneration system at the company's Irwindale, Calif., headquarters production plant. This integrated system will supply the plant with electricity while using the waste heat to provide chilled water to the facility through an absorption chiller. This system will also decrease overall energy consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the plant's carbon footprint.
"We believe that nature is our future at Bonduelle, and one of our major objectives is to reduce our impact on the environment," says Mary Thompson, chief executive officer. "This cogeneration system, the first of its kind for Bonduelle in North America, is one big step toward producing our fresh salads, meals and snacks more sustainably."