Officially opening a new $10 million red meat rendering facility for the Craig Mostyn Group (CMG) at Talloman, Hazelmere, WA Minister for Agriculture and Food, Terry Redman, said the investment showed CMG's commitment to continuous improvement and a willingness to invest in upgrading its operations.
"In the globally competitive marketplace for food and agricultural produce, this forward thinking, cost reduction and attention to meeting customer demands is critical for WA companies to maintain hard earned successes against strong market competition and position themselves to take advantage of new opportunities."
Mr Redman said the new technology would not only improve meal recovery and tallow and meal quality, but also save fuel costs of more than $1 million a year.
The low temperature rendering plant, using waste heat evaporation, was commissioned after a global search of the latest technologies by CMG General Manager Recycling, Greg Lott, Talloman Divisional Manager, Andrew Bennett and CMG Engineer, Ray Clarke..
This new technology delivers:
- A 40% reduction in gas usage
- A significant improvement in waste water quality as nutrients are removed from the waste water stream and recovered as usable product
- Improved product quality
- Reduced use of chemicals and electricity in the waste water treatment plant.
- Reduced carbon dioxide emissions
- Reduced water treatment costs
According to Mr Lott, low temperature rendering also significantly reduces odour emissions as the temperature in the process is insufficient to create volatilisation of organic compounds which create odour in traditional high temperature rendering.
The new plant will process about 100,000 tonnes a year of abattoir and boning room waste products and produce useable products such as meat and bone meal and tallow.
If land-filled unprocessed, this would fill WA’s available landfill sites in two weeks.
The new plant will process 20 tonnes per hour of mixed abattoir and boning room material.
Effectively, it will service the majority of the red meat industry from Gingin in the north, Tammin in the east, the south-west as far as Bunbury, plus metropolitan retail and wholesale operations.
Welcoming guests to the official opening, CMG Board Chairman, Jim Kennedy, said that several years ago CMG’s Talloman business was at a crossroad, incurring significant costs in keeping a very old plant operational.
“The Board agreed to stay in the rendering business and invest $10 million and today’s opening of our state of the art rendering plant is the result of a decision which underlines our ongoing commitment to WA’s meat industry,” Mr Kennedy said.
CMG is an 82 year old Australian family owned business, operating in food and agriculture, headquartered in WA and employing about 350 people.
Mr Kennedy said CMG farmed and processed pigs, marketed as the Linley Valley Fresh range of pork products and was also a major exporter and importer of seafood, marketer of food service products, trader in protein and exporter of fresh fruit.
“But one of our main businesses is in service rendering, providing an indispensable foundation for livestock industries in WA.
“That is why we are here today – to open our new service rendering plant with higher capacity than the old one and a new low temperature technology that will deliver environmental outcomes that meet community expectations,” Mr Kennedy concluded.
