F&B Sound Bites Beca

What does it take to build one of Australia's largest beverage facilities? On this episode, Mark Robertson chats with Mark Toomey and Paul Woods from Frucor Suntory Oceania as they share their ambitions for latest multi-beverage facility in Queensland, and the career opportunities that the greenfield site provides.

Energy efficiencies and sustainability have been the name of the game in the F&B space. But if you're managing a food production facility, where do you start in getting those quick energy saving wins?  On this episode, we speak to Adrian Dickison (Senior Technical Director) and Mathieu Duguay (Business Director - Industrial Digital) to discuss the ultimate low-hanging fruit for energy savings at food production facilities: your refrigeration system. 

What's a green building? What certifies one? And why would a F&B facility choose to build one? Today we're talking with Ethan Duff - Senior Building Scientist at Beca, to share about his award-winning work with Cloudy Bay Wineries, and how developing a green building has supported their decarbonisation efforts and elevated their standing as a business strongly committed to sustainability.

We flew a couple of our engineers to Munich in September 2022 to attend one of the biggest beverage conferences, and no we’re not talking about Oktoberfest (much to their dismay), but just as exciting – Drinktec!

Price spikes, supply shortages, and delivery delays are wreaking havoc on businesses, and everyone is struggling to control cost overruns. But fear not, as there are solutions that can help rein in the budget in this volatile pricing environment.

In a utopian world, Food and Beverage manufacturers wouldn’t have to forgo the long, confusing, and costly transition to cleaner energy sources to power their manufacturing plants. The ‘dirty’ grid would be miraculously funded by the government, transitioning it to green energy, flicking the magic switch to green. 

But like all great dreams, we are (against our own will) jolted back to reality.