Power up your plate
As the food manufacturing industry continues to evolve, energy efficiency is taking centre stage. With rising energy costs and increasing pressure to reduce environmental impact, improving energy performance is no longer optional, it’s essential for a competitive, sustainable future.
This Food and Drink TechHUB webinar will explore how new technologies are helping food and drink manufacturers meet these challenges.
Food and drink manufacturers can improve energy efficiency through a combination of operational improvements, technology adoption, and smarter energy management. This webinar will provide an overview of some of the key approaches, including:
- Optimising processing equipment to ensure they are correctly sized, well maintained, and operating at peak efficiency.
- Improving thermal efficiency: this includes better insulation, heat recovery from ovens, boilers, and refrigeration systems, and more efficient steam and hot-water generation.
- Digital technologies: energy monitoring systems, smart sensors, and data analytics allow manufacturers to track energy use in real time, identify inefficiencies, and make informed decisions.
- How automation and advanced control systems can further optimise production schedules and reduce unnecessary energy demand.
- How integrating low-carbon technologies such as on-site renewables, electrification of processes, and energy storage can help reduce reliance on fossil fuels while improving long-term resilience and cost stability.
Combined with staff engagement and continuous improvement practices, these measures can deliver lasting energy and cost savings.
The webinar will include two case studies from food and drink businesses that have implemented energy efficiency measures and introduced new technology to reduce their energy bills. This includes Nc’nean Distillery and another business TBC.