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Budweiser, the world’s most valuable beer brand, is to be brewed with renewable electricity as AB InBev UK has signed
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GEA has worked with Almarai Company in Saudi Arabia to build the nation’s largest and most modern dairy processing facility. The
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Tetra Pak now obtains half of its global electricity supply from renewable sources, putting the company firmly on course to meet
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Nestlé, the world’s largest food and drink company, has opened a new wind farm at Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway,
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A Yorkshire-based gin and whisky distillery is one of only three in England to be run solely on green energy. As
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Balmenach, one of Speyside’s oldest whisky distilleries and the home of Caorunn Scottish Gin, is set to become one of
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Carlsberg Group’s brewery at Falkenberg in Sweden is now 100% powered by biogas and green electricity, making it the country’s
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