Canada Malting adds carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions

Canada Malting Co. has been operating for more than a century, working alongside farmers across the Canadian prairies to supply North American brewers and distillers with premium malt products. CMC is also part of the United Malt global family of brands that share a culture of sustainability, working together to continuously implement environmental conservation efforts across the malt supply chain.

To that end, Canada Malting Co. partnered with CleanO2 Capture Technologies Inc. to install its CarbinX technology — small-scale carbon capture device used in commercial building heating systems — to reduce its carbon footprint. Canada Malting Co. installed the CarbinX unit in November 2022 and it’s been fully operational since January 2023.

The CarbinX unit, which is about the size of two refrigerators, permanently sequesters CO2 emissions from flue gas and converts it into commercial-grade pearl ash (potassium carbonate). Pearl ash is an inorganic compound that looks like table salt and can be used in various household products. CleanO2 upcycles the pearl ash to manufacture high quality soaps and cleaning products.

The CarbinX unit at CMC recovers CO2 emissions created during the pelleting process used to turn barley byproducts into cattle feed, another sustainability effort to reduce waste. This one CarbinX unit can lowers total emissions by six tons to nine tons of carbon dioxide per year and can reduce heating costs by 20 percent and reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent or more.

Here’s a bit more on how that CarbinX works:

Those attending the 2023 Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville this year can visit Canada Malting Co.’s booth with Country Malt Group at space #1345 to pick up a sample of CleanO2’s quality soap products, while supplies last.