Can ice cream be cooled with biomass heat & ammonia?

We’re now using sustainable energy sources – biomass heat and ammonia, a natural refrigerant gas with no climate warming threat to cool our ice cream and store it. It’s a first for Scotland, an innovative mix of technology, combining an ammonia plant and an absorption chiller to cool with heat from a new biomass boiler.

Why do we make our ice cream the greenest in the world?

We generate twice as much energy as we use and are a huge step closer to achieving our goal of self-sufficiency in renewable energy, with the aim of making our ice cream the greenest in the world! Here’s how we make our ice cream from Sky to Scoop. Scotland is one of the windiest places in Europe!

How many wind turbines do we have?

We have 4 wind turbines – with capacity of 3MW. We generate 8570 MWh per year from wind alone – that’s roughly equivalent to the amount of energy for over 2000 homes! Solar energy complements our wind energy production, particularly in the summer months when it’s less windy.

Why do we make our own ice cream packaging?

High speed and high pressure – the mould locking pressure is 240 tonnes – about 40 African elephants! Making our own packaging means that we reduced our carbon miles – it saved 50,000 miles of transport per year from our former supplier – now it is only 200m from our packaging store over to the ice cream dairy.