Teamwork targets saving in China

The impressive results won the site our first annual award for the best-performing water-saving brewery in Asia in 2022.

Liangping’s winning approach is all about teamwork. Brewery workers were asked to come up with ideas about where water could be saved based on their experience on the frontline of our operations.

More than 80 of their ideas have been translated into action, and workers whose suggestions led to significant water savings received rewards for their teams.

Process adjustments ranged from the relatively simple to the more complicated, from water loss elimination to water recovery and reuse. Most cost little or nothing to implement, making these water-saving solutions highly cost-efficient with strong potential to be applied at other breweries in the region.

These seemingly small changes add up to make a big difference, contributing to a 26% reduction in water use over two years and enabling the brewery to achieve a high efficiency rate of 2.0 hl of water for every hl of beer produced in 2022.

Lessons learned through this pilot at Liangping, and a similar trial at Dazhulin, will be adopted at other high-risk breweries across Asia from 2023, building on the same team ethos.