Inalca-Eni agreement: meat waste becomes “petrol”

Castelvetro, innovative and first national agreement between the giants of the meat and fuel sector: Inalca, Eni and Havi Logistics to produce biomethane useful for fueling transport

CASTELVETRO. An old farmer adage recalls that “nothing is thrown away from the pig”. But not even any other type of product that enters the Inalca factories, given the innovative capacity that the Cremonini Group company has been developing for several years. And now, alongside the biogas, composting and anaerobic digestion plants, there is a new, ambitious goal to be achieved, also thanks to the partnership with two world-class brands.

THE DEAL. Inalca has in fact signed with Eni and Havi Logistics the first national agreement for the production and use of biomethane for automotive produced from agro-food waste in the meat sector. “The initiative – reads a joint note – concretizes an innovative energy supply chain for the transition towards a low impact transport system based entirely on renewable sources”.

THE PROJECT. This is not an agreement on paper that will have future developments but still all to be declined in strategies. In fact, Incalca has already identified how it intends to move and what will be the area within which to develop the production of biomethane, a fuel that is increasingly taking market share and gaining credibility but which so far, at least in the Modena area, had been limited to the transformation of waste and vegetable biomass or household waste.

BIOGAS. The plan sanctioned between the three major industrial operators is based on the energy conversion of the Inalca biogas production plants, as the main national operator in the beef sector, from electricity to biomethane.

Inalca currently self-produces 100% of the energy necessary for its needs, of which 50% from renewable sources.

SCRAPS. “Thanks to Eni’s technological support – explain the company – for the management of the complex energy conversion process of the plants and the commitment of Havi Logistics for the use of bio-methane in the new fleets of vehicles used in the transport of meat, it will create an integrated energy supply chain, capable of enhancing waste and processing waste for their reuse in the context of the same system that generated them, creating a concrete example of circular economy ».

NEW SUPPLY CHAIN. Industrial waste that becomes fuel: Inalca, not without controversy and critical branches, has long chosen to undertake a form of recovery of its waste so much so that the biogas plants built in the plant of Ospedaletto Lodigiano, Pegognaga, Milan and the Corticella company of Spilamberto have over time become a virtuous source of energy sustenance that produce 3.5 Mw of energy compared to 150 thousand tons per year of processed waste. And now we are going to explore biomethane, a new ecological frontier increasingly in vogue.

“This synergy – they conclude from the corporate headquarters – can make a decisive contribution to the achievement of the emission targets set by the European directive 2018/2001 / EC, including that of reaching at least 14% of transport fuels from renewable sources”. –