Bernard Matthews, the UK’s largest turkey farmer and supplier, is to install a biogas plant to improve the companys waste handling and energy costs.

Xergi is to supply Holton Renewable Power Ltd, a joint venture between Bernard Matthews and Glendale Power, with a biogas plant.

Holton Renewable Power Ltd is a development company specialising in anaerobic digestion and will be located close to Bernard Matthews’ current processing site in Holton in Suffolk, with the biogas being generated solely from waste matter from the production plant.

So far the company has delivered its waste to an external service contractor for processing, but with the biogas plant everything will be managed onsite reducing over 1000 lorry journeys each year and enabling the company to handle all its own waste.

The biogas produced will be used for the production of electricity and heating, supplying 16% of the companys energy needs and it will also lead to a CO2 reduction of 2,800 tonnes.

“We have built and efficient plant based on vegetable waste with the grower Staples Vegetables, and now we will be building a plant based on waste from a turkey processing plant. This udnerlines the fact that our technology is able to create balue out of waste and organic residue across a range of industry,” commented Jorgen Fink, Sales Manager in Xergi’s International Sales Department.

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