Royal Canin partner Crown Pet Foods achieves sustainable energy milestone

Royal Canin's manufacturing partner Crown Pet Foods has succeeded in switching to operating using 100 percent renewable electricity.

The firm is one of 12 UK-based Mars companies to achieve this goal thanks to Mars UK's partnership with energy company Eneco UK, who has just opened a new 20-turbine wind farm at Moy, south of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.

With a capacity of 60MW and an annual output exceeding 125,000 megawatt-hours, the Moy Wind Farm provides enough energy to power the group's 12 UK factory and office sites.

Mars UK has slashed its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent in the last nine years, with the new Moy Wind Farm agreement set to reduce them by a further 67 percent in the UK, while increasing its global use of renewable electricity by more than 13 percent.

Crown Pet Foods has also implemented solutions such as including smart systems to save 410 kWh of energy per day, plus delivery systems to minimise road transport and the sending of zero production waste to landfill.

Pauline Devlin, director of corporate affairs at Crown Pet Foods, said: "In terms of the pet food industry, here in the UK and across the world, we believe that we are leading the way in terms of sustainability and reducing our environmental impact significantly."