Building green saved Kettle Foods money

Building green saved Kettle Foods money
September 16, 2008
One year after the grand opening of America’s first LEED® Gold certified food manufacturing plant, Kettle Foods is seeing the savings of building green.

When we decided to go for green, or in this case gold, with LEED® certification of our new factory, we knew it was the right thing to do, said Tim Fallon, Kettle Foods president, North America. The bonus is that making our Kettle Brand Potato Chips in a more environmentally friendly way is also proving to be good business.

The factory, which produces thousands of bags of the companys Kettle Brand Potato Chips for shipment to the East Coast, began production on May 9, 2007. In line with initial energy- and water-saving estimates, the Beloit, Wis., facility is yielding both environmental and economic benefits, including:

  • Annual energy savings (gas and electric) of 20 percent, translating to an estimated cost reduction of $110,000 on natural gas and $51,000 on electricity.
  • Annual water savings of $34,000 due to reclamation systems capturing and reusing 3.4 million gallons of water.
  • Monthly recycling of 2,300 gallons of waste oil with conversion to biodiesel, an alternative fuel used to power a company fleet of diesel-engine cars called BioBeetles.
  • Annual reduction of more than 3 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the elimination of shipping lines between Oregon and the Midwest.
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