Canada Malting Co. has been in operations for more than a century, working alongside farmers across the Canadian prairies to supply North American brewers and distillers with premium malt products. Briess LogoNew American Honey Malt from Briess is a modern take on a traditional melanoidin-style malt. The finished malt is rich in simple sugars and Maillard reaction compounds, resulting in flavor notes of honey, toffee, and biscuit. Recommended usage rate is 5-20%.
To that end, Canada Malting Co. partnered with CleanO2 Capture Technologies Inc. to install its CarbinX technology — small-scale carbon capture device used in commercial building heating systems — to reduce its carbon footprint. Canada Malting Co. installed the CarbinX unit in November 2022 and it’s been fully operational since January 2023.
The CarbinX unit, which is about the size of two refrigerators, permanently sequesters CO2 emissions from flue gas and converts it into commercial-grade pearl ash (potassium carbonate). Pearl ash is an inorganic compound that looks like table salt and can be used in various household products. CleanO2 upcycles the pearl ash to manufacture high quality soaps and cleaning products.
Here’s a bit more on how that CarbinX works:
The CarbinX unit at CMC recovers CO2 emissions created during the pelleting process used to turn barley byproducts into cattle feed, another sustainability effort to reduce waste. This one CarbinX unit can lowers total emissions by six tons to nine tons of carbon dioxide per year and can reduce heating costs by 20 percent and reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent or more.
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