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Kompania Piwowarska is striving for a decrease in the amount of the waste-
water produced by partial re-use of water. It is possible thanks to the following
(Kompania Piwowarska Sustainable Development 2013 ):

• using water from the brew kettle condensate to pre-rinse whirlpools,
• using water from the inal rinsing at the clean in place for external rinsing,
• using the excess water from the bottle wash to wash empty crates,
• feeding conveyor sprinklers with water returning from can and bottle washes,
• using cascade water for foam fractionators.

3.5.2 Grupa Z Ǚ ywiec

The Heineken Group, which owns breweries in 70 countries worldwide, is also
trying to increase effectiveness of using this material in production. The corpora-
tion has committed itself to lowering the water consumption rate to 3.7 l per 1 l of
the beer produced before 2020. It will mean a 25 % reduction in comparison with
the result achieved in 2008. In 2012 the average water consumption at 165 brewer-
ies of the Heineken group was decreased to 4.2 l per 1 l of beer.
The breweries of Grupa Ǚ ywiec which are part of the Heineken concern have
for many years consistently been cutting the consumption of water used in beer
production and currently belong to the most ecological and efficient ones in the
world. Grupa's breweries in Ǚ ywiec, Warka, ElblǛg, LeǙajsk and Cieszyn use,
on average, 2.9 l of water to produce 1 l of beer. In terms of water consump-
tion, as many as 4 out of 5 breweries of Grupa Ǚ ywiec are in the top ten most
ecological ones among 165 plants of the Heineken Group. An effective way of
limiting water consumption applied by the Group has been implementing semi-
dry and dry lubrication systems on the lines where beer is poured into bottles at
the breweries in LeǙajsk and Warka. Trials conducted at the LeǙajsk production
brewery have shown a decrease in the amount of water and wastewater on this pro-
duction segment by 70 and 85 % in Warka in contrast with the traditional method.
These systems are among the most advanced ones in the world (Corporate Social
Responsibility Report of Grupa Kapitałowa Ǚ ywiec S.A. for 2012 ) (Table 5 ).
In 2012 the total amount of wastewater produced at the breweries of Grupa
Ǚ ywiec constituted 60 % of the water used. Wastewater from the plants in Ǚ ywiec
and Warka is partially deprived of pollution in the pre-treatment plants operating
at the breweries before it gets to the municipal treatment plant. Due to increasing
beer production, wastewater emission rose at all breweries apart from the one in
Warka where the wastewater quantity fell by 2.8 % in relation to 2011. The plant

ywiec (in m 3 ) (adopted from Table 5 Consumption of water in individual breweries of Grupa Ż

Corporate Social Responsibility Report of Grupa Kapitałowa Ż ywiec S.A. 2012 )

Ǚ ywiec Cieszyn ElblǛg LeǙajsk Warka

Year 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012

21,040 21,621 701,458 701,082 375,776 446,417 838,791 845,968 1306,660 1374,866

Water
consumption