Oct 29 2024
The RedoxMaster dryer was installed at Yamagata Shokuhin (Yamagata prefecture, Japan), and a completion ceremony was held on 29th October.
On 29th October 2024, the installation of the RedoxMaster was completed at Yamagata Foods Co., Ltd. (Yamagata Prefecture), which produces fruit beverages and other products, and a completion ceremony was held to mark the start of operations, with many people involved in the project in attendance.
The company produces approximately 1,100 tonnes of apple and other fruit juice residue and 1,200 tonnes of tea and coffee residue yearly. Until now, these juice residues have simply been disposed of at cost, with no practical use being made of them. The waste from the pressing of apples and other fruit can be used as a component of animal feed thanks to the RedoxMaster, which efficiently reduces the water content to 10% with low fuel consumption and low CO2 emissions, without destroying the nutrients. Hopefully, this will contribute to the effective use of waste and local, recycling-based agriculture.
As Japan relies on imports for the majority of its animal feed, the rising cost of imported animal feed, a major cost factor in the livestock and dairy industries, is putting pressure on the industry. For this reason, the introduction of RedoxMaster was carried out with the government’s support, with funding from the Japanese government’s ‘Emergency Measures for Improving Feed Self-Sufficiency Rate Subsidy’.
This year, the company plans to process 450 tonnes of fruit residue. Yamagata Foods has also started working with a local power generation company this summer to use the residue for power generation, and we can expect to see effective use of waste in various ways.
The ceremony was attended by many top figures in the Japanese agricultural industry, including JA-ZENNO’s Chairman Mr Keiichi ORIHARA. The completion ceremony began with a Shinto ritual. In Japan, it is customary for a Shinto priest to perform a ceremony to thank the safe completion of construction work and to pray for the facility’s safe operation in the future. At the ceremony, JA-ZENNO’s Chairman Keiichi ORIHARA expressed his hopes, saying, ‘The price of animal feed is rising. We can contribute to local recycling-oriented agriculture by supplying dried fruit residue to local livestock farmers.’
The ceremony was broadcast on Yamagata TV. You can view it here.
Glencal Technology contributes to the improvement of food self-sufficiency in Japan and around the world, as well as to the reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions, through the RedoxMaster system that utilises our plasma technology.