monaghan mushrooms - future in food ireland, 2014
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Donna McKennaEnvironmental Manager
Agenda
our companyMonaghan Mushrooms:
our products
our process
Future in Food: environmental sustainability
what have we done?
success through sustainability
what happens next?
Thank You
Monaghan Mushrooms
No. 1 Mushroom Substrate ProducerNo. 2 Fresh Mushroom Producer
Monaghan Mushrooms is one of the world’s largest and most progressive fresh mushroom companies.
29 locations worldwide
3,800 employees
41 nationalities
1.65 million kg mushrooms weekly
Mushroom Substrate
• Straw bales dunked• Blended with:
Horse manure Poultry manure Gypsum Amm. sulphate
• Phase 1 bunker processTransferred11-12 days
• Phase 2 tunnel process Pasteurisation 6 days
• Spawning
• Phase 3 process Spawn run 15 – 16 days Dispatch
Mushroom Growing
• Shelves filled with substrate, layered with peat• Controlled & monitored environmental conditions• Mycelium develops into pins, pins into mushrooms• Grown in flushes; 1st flush 16 – 17 days after casing• Hand-picked ‘one touch’ technique
Grown indoors, all year round
Mushroom Packing
Products are:
scanned for foreign objects graded to customer specification weighed, wrapped, packed
Product is loaded onto 40ft containers and dispatched to our customer depots
75 lorries depart our pack houses daily
Monaghan Mushroom Products
White Mushroom
Portabello Mushroom
Organic MushroomForestiere® Mushroom
Chestnut Mushroom
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental protection is
essential and it is expected
Monaghan Mushrooms continuously strive to incorporate sustainability into all avenues of the business
Raw materials Manufacturing processes Social sustainability
What have we done?
Energy Management
-11% -17% -14%
Substrate
Production
Mushroom
Growing
Mushroom
Packing
100% Green
• Fancom systems
• Heating / cooling batteries
• Cascade heating system
• Low energy lighting
Water Management
surface rainfall building rainfall run-off capture100%
Water Harvesting
Automatic Watering Systems
Control of - water application- water usage- optimum conditions
Odour Management
Raw materials hall Mixing hall Phase 1 bunkers Forced aeration Covered, aerated tank Scrubbers / Biofilter
Biodiversity
Research & Development Centre
R&D Centre
Compost, Casing &
Microbiology
Food Science & Technology
Biosciences
raw materials
quality
monitoring
new systems
improving
sustainabilitytechnologies
sciences
engineering
developing
Health & Nutrition
Mushrooms are a vitamin heavyweight
One portion of mushrooms counts as one of your 5 a day
One portion of mushrooms contains over 3g of high quality protein
Mushrooms are a source of many essential minerals; Potassium, Selenium, Copper
Mushrooms contain natural compounds called ‘statins’ –inhibiting the absorption of bad cholesterol
All your daily Vitamin D requirements in just one portion
New product launched 6th September 2014
Vitamin D Mushrooms
MM in the Community
Giving Back
FundraisingSponsorshipDonations
Opportunities
Success through Sustainability
International client base Supply 5 of the world’s top 10 food retailers Leading mushroom company in the UK UK is Europe’s largest fresh mushroom market
What happens next?
Origin Green
Plan submitted, awaiting approval
6 main target areas;
o Mushroom packagingo Peat usageo Wasteo Biodiversityo Energyo Social Sustainability
Opportunity
Success
Future
Future
