Lowville’s Kraft Heinz plant to use estimated $22 million federal award to reduce carbon emissions

The Lowville plant of Kraft Heinz Company will use federal funding estimated at $22 million to “upgrade, electrify, and decarbonize its heating process to significantly reduce” carbon emissions, the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) announced Monday. This company-provided photo shows workers at the Lowville plant. (Photo credit: Kraft Heinz)

LOWVILLE, N.Y. — The Kraft Heinz Company (NASDAQ: KHC) plant in Lowville will use an estimated $22 million federal grant award to upgrade, electrify, and decarbonize its heating process to significantly reduce carbon emissions.

The Lowville facility in Lewis County is among 10 Kraft Heinz sites across the country that will use a total of nearly $171 million for similar work, the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (DN.Y.) announced Monday.

The U.S. Department of Energys Industrial Demonstrations Program is awarding the funding, Schumers office said. Kraft Heinz Company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Schumer said the funding is from the Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. It seeks to help accelerate the North Country plants adoption of clean energy to lower greenhousegas emissions, while creating good-paying construction jobs to strengthen the plant boosting the local economy and environment.

This is a major win for Lewis County and our Upstate NYs dairy industry. Lowvilles Kraft Heinz plant has long been the cream of the crop and now the Bipartisan Infrastructure & Jobs Law and Inflation Reduction Act will help power their transition to clean energy, making sure the North Country facility will have the modern upgrades it needs to remain the big cheese, all while creating good paying jobs and fighting climate change, Schumer said in Mondays announcement.

Implementing the technologies at each facility is expected to reduce annual emissions by more than 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, translating to a 99 percent reduction from 2022 levels for Kraft Heinz, all while helping create hundreds of good paying construction jobs.

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The Lowville Kraft Heinz plant will use the funding to replace aging gas and other high carbonemitting technologies with more energy efficient and environmentally friendly alternatives, such as heat pumps, electric heaters, and electric boilers.

In addition to the Lowville plant, Kraft Heinz will also boost its decarbonization efforts in Champaign, Illinois; Columbia, Missouri; Fremont, Ohio; Holland, Michigan; Kendallville, Indiana; New Ulm, Minnesota; Muscatine, Iowa; Mason City, Iowa; and Winchester, Virginia, Schumers office said.

 

 

 

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