Australian beef exporter, Kilcoy Pastoral Company is improving its productivity, reducing costs and enhancing competitiveness through an air compressor system upgrade.
Australian beef exporter, Kilcoy Pastoral Company is improving its productivity, reducing costs and enhancing competitiveness through an air compressor system upgrade.
Dean Goode, Kilcoy Pastoral Company’s CEO, states that the $240,000 upgrade of its air compressor system is part of the processor’s ongoing program to improve its performance sustainability and reduce plant carbon emissions.
“This upgrade is part of a continuing series of improvements aimed at delivering world-class environmental operations,” he notes.
With compressed air responsible for 10 to 15 percent of industrial electricity use nationwide, there are considerable savings to be made by ensuring compressed air systems are energy efficient.
CAPS Australia will deliver the upgrade, which will provide compressed air for the meat processors, pumps, tools and packaging lines. The upgrade will not only boost performance substantially, but will also help to improve equipment lifespan and eliminate production downtime, according to Quentin St Baker, CAPS Australia’s national manager of energy efficiency services.
He estimated air compressor energy savings of more than 40 percent and a reduction in maintenance costs by about 30 percent.
Finance from Low Carbon Australia will cover the upfront costs of upgrading equipment. Kilcoy Pastoral Company estimates the compressed air upgrade payback period at four years.
