Open
Source

At Chivas Brothers we have made the expertise and learnings from the successful integration of enhanced heat recovery technologies ‘open source’. The move was made after the application of the technology at our Glentauchers site showed significant benefit in carbon emissions reduction, providing insights that will benefit the industry at large if adopted at other suitable distillation sites.

The heat recovery technologies, including Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) and Thermo Vapour Recompression (TVR), are designed to capture and recycle heat generated in the distillation process that would otherwise go to waste.

“Heat recovery forms a critical part of our sustainability ambitions. Findings with such significant impact must be shared; this technology has the potential to transform our industry and accelerate its progress. That’s why we’re making our design process and implementation learnings available to all. As a business with a long history of innovation, we believe this is the right thing to do. Collaboration across our industry will be fundamental if we are to meet collective ambitions around sustainability, safeguarding the long-term future of our products and our planet. Understandably, this technology won’t be right for every distillery, but we encourage our peers to explore whether it has the potential to reduce their own carbon output.” – Jean-Etienne Gourgues, Chairman & CEO

We have ambitious plans to roll these integrations across all viable sites. Chivas Brothers expects these technologies to reduce its overall energy consumption and carbon emissions in distillation by one third.