At Inghams, we don’t take water for granted. It’s a resource we have a duty to use responsibly — and one that our teams work hard to manage every single day across our sites in Australia and New Zealand.
This World Water Day, we’re proud to share the scale of what we’re achieving as a business, and the people making it happen on the ground.
In FY25, our teams recycled more than 1 billion litres of water on-site across four facilities in Australia and New Zealand. Over the long term, we’ve driven a 13% reduction in total water withdrawn intensity, measured in kilolitres per tonne of product, against our FY19 baseline.
Behind every number is a team doing the work.
At our Lisarow site in New South Wales, Dallas Newlands, Aaron Tuddenham and Paul Andrews recently oversaw the installation of a new spiral freezer that replaces the traditional hot water defrost system with waste heat recovered directly from the refrigeration plant’s ammonia discharge. In other words, heat that would otherwise go to waste is now doing a job — and eliminating the need for on average of 1,000-litres of hot water for defrost cycles every working day.
The investment was primarily driven by the expansion of the site’s capability to produce fully cooked products, with the water savings a genuine added benefit. Once fully operational in April, the new system is projected to save up to 245,000 litres of water per year.
It’s a great example of how thoughtful investment and the right people add up to real, measurable change — not just for our business, but for the communities and environments where we operate.
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