Fat benefits for food firm
YORKSHIRE Crisps, the Sheffield-based gourmet crisp firm, is turning used vegetable oil into biofuel to save the environment and costs.
The biofuel will be used to power lorries delivering parsnips to the factory from the firm’s farm.
The lorries will then collect the used vegetable oil to take back to the farm where it will be processed into biofuel.
Tony Bishop, Yorkshire Crisps managing director, said: “”This used sunflower oil is a bi-product of crisp manufacture.
“If this can be used as fuel for deliveries to our factory, then everybody’s costs are reduced, from production to delivery and it is a great way to help the environment.”
Yorkshire Crisps is working in partnership with Phoenix Fuels, which is providing the recycling technology.
The company, which recently installed a new agri biofuel production plant, works in harmony with food production businesses to provide sustainable fuels.
Phoenix fuels director Jon Hammond of Hammond’s Produce, said: “Phoenix Fuels is one of the first British models for bio fuels. We are proud to offer an affordable, quality, sustainable fuel option.”
Established in 2005, Yorkshire Crisps was founded by businessman Ashley Turner whose family businesses have been established in Sheffield for over 100 years.
The crisps are sold in Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Co-operative stores across Yorkshire.
The crisps are also available at farmers’ markets in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and various independent retailers across the UK, including Fortnum & Mason, Harvey Nichols, Selfridges. It is the sole crisp supplier to all Andrew Lloyd Webber theatres.
Yorkshire Crisps also distributes to Spain, France, Denmark, Norway, Greece and Thailand.
