MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The Maple Leaf Meals Heritage facility in Hamilton, Ont. has been awarded the Management in Power and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification by the Canada Inexperienced Constructing Council. LEED is a global certification recognizing sustainability excellence and inexperienced constructing management.
The corporate acquired a $2.6 million grant from the Metropolis of Hamilton supporting the incorporation of many progressive and environmentally accountable design options which offer environmental and group advantages.
Maple Leaf Meals formally opened the Hamilton, Ont. plant in 2014, permitting it to carry collectively operations from 5 different smaller websites into this extra environment friendly and automatic facility. The plant spans roughly 500,000 sq. ft. of ground area and employs greater than 900 workforce members.
The Heritage facility has applied a number of initiatives which have led to gradual reductions within the firm’s environmental affect, together with a nationwide LED lighting retrofit program, tools effectivity and optimization upgrades, ammonia warmth restoration and wasted warmth restoration methods, composting and recycling applications, management measures and closed-loop methods for water use and enhancements to storage, dealing with and worker coaching to scale back meals waste.
Consequently, the ability has decreased its electrical energy depth by 72.9 per cent, pure gasoline depth by 47.2 per cent, water depth by 54.8 per cent (all from a 2014 baseline), strong waste depth by 51 per cent (from a 2015 baseline) and meals waste depth by 45.4 per cent (from a 2016 baseline). Key constructing options that went into creating the inexperienced facility embrace encouraging various transportation, akin to a bicycle storage space and using low-emitting and fuel-efficient automobiles, optimizing power efficiency, enhancing refrigeration administration, lowering water use, utilizing low-emitting supplies and maximizing open area to encourage interplay with the setting, amongst others.
“We’re actually happy with what we’ve achieved at our Hamilton, Ont. facility, and deeply admire the assist we’ve acquired from the Metropolis of Hamilton,” says Randy Huffman, Chief Meals Security and Sustainability Officer, Maple Leaf Meals. “It has been a journey to get right here, and we sit up for leveraging our learnings as we proceed to pursue our imaginative and prescient of being essentially the most sustainable protein firm on earth.”