SBL adopts energy efficiency initiative

Dar es Salaam. Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL), is planning to reduce misuse of energy including use of metrics and analysis as the main tools of tracking and verifying energy consumption of all the company’s equipment in all departments.

SBL’s Managing Director Ms Helene Weesie, said the plan aimed at improving efficiency of boilers, efficiency in cleaning regime, adapting production scheduling to take energy reduction as a priority, and replacing key equipment which consume more than the average energy levels.

“We closely monitor and compare the extent of energy consumption in our equipment and departments while ensuring the best practices in tandem with international benchmarks,” she said. She said, pursuant to its quest to ensure environmental conservation and a sound health for its staff and that of the citizens neighboring its brewing plants, SBL in July 2016 commissioned a two-kilometre waste disposal pipeline at its Temeke brewery, effectively solving the perennial challenge of the disposal of the brewer’s industrial waste in the plant.

Constructed at a cost of Sh470 million and covering an almost two-kilometer stretch from the brewing plant to Kurasini, the pipeline, the first of its kind in the country, was lauded by the government through its relevant ministry as an enviable example to be emulated by other companies and industries.

“Clean, safe water is one of the main ingredients in beer production and we recognize that in beer production, waste water is produced and its disposal should have environmental preservation in mind.

Therefore, the launch of this pipeline is meant to ensure maximum environmental preservation as well as preserving the health of the staff and the neighbouring communities”, she said.

Above all, World Environment Day is the “people’s day” for doing something to take care of the Earth- focusing attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern.