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Ardgowan Distillery Company Update
Ardgowan Distillery Company Update.
About this update from Distil Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 4897Q\n Distil PLC\n 28 October 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Distil plc\n \n Ardgowan Distillery Company Limited signs equipment supply\nfor Ardgowan distillery project\n \n \n Distil plc (AIM:DIS), owner of premium drinks brands RedLeg Spiced Rum, Blackwoods Gin and Vodka, TRØVE Botanical Vodka and Blavod Black \n Vodka,\n \n is pleased to \n \n note\n that Ardgowan Distillery Company Limited (\"Ardgowan\")\n , a company in which Distil plc recently made a £3 million strategic investment, \n has signed an equipment supply agreement with Briggs of Burton\n Plc (\"Briggs\")\n in relation to Ardogwan's new Malt Whisky distillery\n (\"Ardgowan Distillery\")\n , planned for opening in 2023. \n \n \n \n \n Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, Ardgowan has announced a partnership with Briggs, a globally recognised engineering company with extensive experience in the distilling industry, to realise its ambitious for a new multi-million-pound eco-friendly distillery near Inverkip, west of Glasgow. The partnership goal will be to deliver a carbon negative distillery in 2024 after an initial period of equipment testing and commissioning. The agreement has the following key features:\n \n \n · \n New low carbon technologies at the heart of the agreement\n \n \n · \n Distillery site to be showcase for Briggs technology\n \n \n · \n Companies to cooperate on deployment of innovative solutions\n \n \n · \n Initial operations on the site to start in 2022\n \n Working together, Ardgowan and Briggs are creating a modular distillery, which is being designed to adapt as sustainable technology evolves, ensuring that the distillery will remain at the forefront of sustainability measures.\n \n Briggs, which designs, engineers and builds distilleries around the world, has specifically designed each part of the whisky making process - from mashing to distillation - so that new technologies can be swapped in to ensure that the Ardgowan Distillery will be at the forefront of energy reduction, heat recovery and CO2 capture as new technologies emerge.\n \n The Scotch Whisky Association's Sustainability Strategy launched in 2021 aims for the sector to reach net zero by 2040 - ten years ahead of the UK Government's targets. A study from the SWA published in 2020 cites that the 2018 industry emissions...