{"id":6963,"date":"2022-11-04T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2022-11-04T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T13:52:47","slug":"ardagh-group-and-absolut-vodka-co-invest-in-hydrogen-fired-glass-furnace-in-a-global-industry-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/ardagh-group-and-absolut-vodka-co-invest-in-hydrogen-fired-glass-furnace-in-a-global-industry-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardagh Group and Absolut Vodka co-invest in hydrogen-fired glass furnace in a global industry first"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ardagh Group S.A. and Absolut Vodka’s latest collaboration will enable the global spirits brand to become the first to move to a partly hydrogen energy-fired glass furnace for large-scale production, in a significant step to reduce the CO2 <\/sub>emissions from making its iconic bottles. The hydrogen initiative is an important milestone for Absolut Vodka in becoming completely CO2 <\/sub>neutral by 2030. A prerequisite for being able to meet this goal is in reducing the carbon footprint of its glass packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ardagh Glass Packaging in Limmared, a subsidiary of Ardagh Group, has signed an agreement with Absolut Vodka, to use this partly hydrogen-fired furnace commencing in the second half of 2023. The pioneering collaboration will accelerate the transformation of the global glassmaking process for a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ardagh’s Limmared glass production facility in Sweden has been a partner with Absolut for 40 years and currently uses a combination of natural gas and electricity to power its furnaces. From the second half of 2023, Ardagh will launch a pilot in Limmared replacing 20% of its natural gas with green hydrogen to manufacture all of Absolut’s bottles across its portfolio. This means a full-scale change of the continuous production of Absolut bottles for all markets globally. The hydrogen will be produced onsite at Ardagh by using renewably sourced electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An industry-wide quest for reducing climate impact is taking place. Combined with other innovations and sustainability initiatives, new technologies such as hydrogen-fired furnaces will reduce carbon emissions from glass production significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of hydrogen would reduce Absolut Vodka’s carbon footprint from glass by 20%. It follows other joint initiatives to reduce carbon emissions, such as the light-weighting of glass, increased use of electricity in the current furnace and a significant increase in recycled flint glass \u2013 today reaching 53% with the ambition to go even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Absolut owns one of the world’s most energy-efficient distilleries. It has 98% fewer emissions than an average distillery and has built up a surplus of emission rights as a result. The intent is to use these to invest in green transformation. Absolut will support Ardagh in this project and the parties will work together to fulfill Absolut’s ambitions of a CO2<\/sub> neutral product by 2030, by using today’s and tomorrow’s best available technologies in glass manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bo Nilsson, Managing Director of Ardagh Glass Limmared AB, says: “Our industry needs to be less reliant on fossil fuels and transition at pace to using more green energy. By investing in this new technology, we are embarking on a journey to reduce the carbon footprint of our glass packaging. There are challenges with such innovation, but we are committed to being an early mover in future-proofing our glass manufacturing operations world-wide.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phanie Durroux, Chief Executive of The Absolut Company, says: “Given we’ve been investing in our own production for decades, decreasing our emissions and increasing energy efficiency, we’re now in a position where we also can focus on the parts of our value chain that are outside of our own scope. The glass manufacturing industry is in a transformative journey, and the world can’t wait for the perfect solution. A bold and innovative approach is needed to accelerate radical change that will help solve the significant sustainability challenges that all glassmakers and buyers of glass face.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ardagh Group S.A. and Absolut Vodka’s latest collaboration will enable the global spirits brand to become the first to move to a partly hydrogen energy-fired glass furnace for large-scale production, in a significant step to reduce the CO2 emissions from making its iconic bottles. The hydrogen initiative is an important milestone for Absolut Vodka in becoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,64],"tags":[504,307],"class_list":{"0":"post-6963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-finance","8":"category-latest-news","9":"tag-absolut-vodka","10":"tag-ardagh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}