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Muntons’ sustainability programme awarded platinum medal
Muntons, the Stowmarket-based malt and malted ingredient manufacturer, has been awarded a platinum medal in sustainability performance by EcoVadis. This rating puts the maltster in the top 1% of global companies assessed and further highlights it as a leader in sustainability. EcoVadis is the world's largest independent corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating agency and assesses over 85,000 businesses in 160 countries and 200 industries. It reviews a company’s performance in four key pillars: environment, labour and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. Across the board, Muntons scored 75 out of 100 in the audit, well ahead of the global average of 47.
Muntons added the accolade to its everexpanding list of recent achievements, including the Environmental Leadership Award at the 2021 Food and Drink Federation's awards and the Baking Industry Awards' Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award. The 100-year-old business impressed judges with its investment and innovation carried out on its new biomass heating system along with the co-generation of electricity. This, in part, represents Muntons' commitment to sustainability and reduces its environmental footprint in line with a net-zero carbon emissions target. The company is on track to achieve its sciencebased target early and will decarbonise by over 60% based on 2010 emissions.
Director of Technical and Sustainability at Muntons, Nigel Davies, said: “It’s an honour to be awarded the EcoVadis Platinum Award. As a business that has set science-based emissions reduction goals as part of our sustainability strategy, the medal recognises our commitments as an industry leader. “We’re serious about our sustainability initiatives, and the work we do allows us to support our customers and suppliers build greener supply chains and therefore improve the industry’s methods throughout. The platinum award recognises our performance is consistently high in the wider sustainability issues, such as ethics, human rights and procurement."
Muntons sales manager presented with accolade to celebrate the country's highest malt industry exam results Joe Fifield, a sales manager from Muntons, has been recognised for achieving the country's highest result in his industry exams. Joe completed the General Certificate of Malting (GCM) last year and achieved a credit grade. The malting industry’s trade association, the Maltsters’ Association of
Great Britain (MAGB), named Joe as its highest-scoring exam candidate for 2020. This led to The Macpherson Memorial Trust nominating him for the Association’s prestigious award, the Macpherson Quaich. Speaking about receiving the Macpherson Quaich, Joe said: “I'm honoured to have received the Macpherson Quaich; it's a
tremendous achievement for me and it’s something I’m really proud of.” During an award ceremony at Muntons' headquarters in Stowmarket, Suffolk, Macpherson Chair of Trustees, Adrian Dyter presented Joe with the Macpherson Quaich.
Murphy & Son launches new PCR service As the industry recovers from the impact of the pandemic, ensuring the purity of yeast slurries, clean fermenters and serving consistent quality beer has never been more important. Murphys is therefore proud to announce the launch of its new PCR service that will serve as an important quality control measure across the brewing process, from yeast slurries to packaging. Despite the pandemic thrusting PCRs into the public eye, PCR (Polymer Chain Reaction) tests have been around since 1985, enabling scientists
to amplify a low concentration of DNA to millions of copies in the space of a few hours. This technology has now been harnessed by Murphys for its new service which provides a rapid and reliable PCR based method to detect a range of beer spoilage microorganisms. And as there is no need for culturing on foreign medias, the entire process can be completed in situ. With only a small volume of beer, Murphys can extract DNA and amplify using specifically targeted primers, permitting the species-level identification of beer spoilage yeasts and bacteria and a full PCR run can be completed, analysed, and reported within only a few hours. Through the new service Murphys
aims to return all customer samples by the end of the next day. The new service can also be used on yeast slurry to confirm the absence of any key beer spoilers and also the absence or presence of any diastatic variant, and swabs of other areas of the brewery such as the canning line or containers can also be tested for contaminants. For more information about the new PCR service email techsupport@murphyandson.co.uk
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