AB InBev Water Strategy
Solutions for Sustainable Water Use
February 24, 2011
Ludo Degelin
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AB InBev Company
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The world’s leading brewer
One of the world’s top five consumer products companies
Well-balanced geographic footprint
No. 1 or 2 position in 19 key markets
More than 200 key brands, operating in 23 countries
116,000 employees
Production volume 2009: 408.6 Mio hl
6 geographical zones among which Western Europe
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AB InBev Supply in Western Europe
15 Breweries in 5
countries
4200 Employees
> 30 Mio hl beer
Global Brands
Budweiser, Stella and
Beck’s
Multi Country Brands
Hoegaarden and Leffe
165 Beers
Breweries
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950 SKU’s
Best Beer Company in a Better World
Reputation
Responsible
Drinking
Environment
People
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Community
Global Environmental Goals 2012
WE
Water Usage of 3,5 hl/hl production
Energy Usage
and Greenhouse gas Emissions
99% Waste & Byproducts Recycling Rate
Compared to 2009
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-28%
-10%
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+1%
We use water …
In 2010, Western European breweries consumed
± 15,5 Mio m³ water
 Ground water
78 %
 Municipal water 22 %
 All water is treated to comply with our quality standards
 Usage of water
 20 % is transformed into beer
 10 % is evaporized in production
 70 % becomes waste water after use as process
or cleaning water
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… and give it back to the environment
Treatment of waste water before discharging to surface water
 40% external treatment (municipal WWTP)
 60% internal treatment (own WWTP)
 Compliant with all legal requirements
 Anaerobic treatment, 4 Mio m³ biogas recovered for
electricity and heat production
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Water Reduction Targets
Belgium
5,55
Western Europe
4,89
4,19
3,50
Actual 2009
Actual 2010
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2011
2012
2009
2012
Target of 3.5 hl/hl
production by end of
2012
Water reduction of
28% in 2012 versus
2009
Water saving of
± 4,3 Mio m³ water
in 2012 versus 2009
Equal to annual
water use of
± 78.000 persons
Our Water Reduction Strategy
Actions are focusing on
 Process Optimization
 Capital Investment
 Employee Engagement
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Process Optimization
 VPO, our AB InBev way to operate our breweries
 Best Practice Sharing
 PDCAs
 Shared targets driving right focus
 Increased visibility of water consumption, additional
meters (per department, line, machine, …)
Energy & Water KPI’s – KEG LINE
 Enhanced Maintenance and Leakage repairing
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Process Optimization
 Optimization of cleaning processes, water reduction
while maintaining standards, Quality First!
Breakdown of Water
Consumption
Other,
incl.
Losses;
25%
Heat
Transfer;
11%
Raw
Material;
20%
Cleaning
Duties 45%
Cleaning
Duties;
45%
Relation LEF - Water Usage
4,5
 Focus on production line performances
3,5
Water Usage (%)
reduces energy and water usage
4,0
3,0
2,5
2,0
1,5
1,0
0,5
0,0
60%
65%
70%
LEF (%)
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75%
80%
Capital Investments
 Water Reduction Projects
 Leuven: narrowing the diameter of the rinser nozzles
 water reduction of 47.000 m³ per year
 Leuven: optimization of the cooling towers
 water reduction of 37.880 m³ per year
 Jupille: investment in water treatment installation
 water reduction of 40.000 m³ per year
 Water Reclaim Projects
 Leuven: one way bottle line, rinse water of the empty
bottles is reused to rinse the filled bottles
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New Investments
New Power Plant Leuven
 75 Ton steam/hour
 5MW electrical capacity
 10% more energy efficient
 Rainwater collection and
treatment for steam
production
 5% water saving
New Bottlewasher Jupille
 120.000 bottles/hour
 15% reduction in energy use
(steam)
 20% reduction in water use
or 30.000 m³/year
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Employee Engagement
Energy and Water Saving Program launched
 Employees focusing on
reduction of base load
ENERGY AND WATER
SAVING PROGRAM
During which production stop?
FULL PRODUCTION
CIP
STOP WEEKEND/
HOLIDAY
Energy/Water Point
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BREAK DOWN
Energy/Water Tour MATRIX
Energy/water Checklist
Department/Zone: Packaging ...
Before the production stop, switch off the listed equipment.
What?
After the production stop, switch on the listed equipment.
N°
Description of equipment to be switched off = ENERGY/WATER
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Lighting Office
Lighting Machinery
Lighting Floor
Lighting Canteen
Lighting Lab
Lighting Toilets
Lighting Workshop
Lighting Locker room
Lighting Canteen
Lighting Basement
Lighting waste storage
PC office FLM
PC filler
PC office basement
Conveyer belts washing machine
Conveyer belts WA-line
EBI device
Laser
Photocopier office FLM
Vaccuum cleaner lazer
Packing machine labels
Syscona
Lamp basement
Gate warehouse labels at outside
Gate warehouse labels at side bottle line
Gate warehouse packaging at outside
Gate warehouse packaging at side bottle line
Door HK3
Door bottle line at side of the street
 Energy Days in all breweries
Identified water saving 115.000 m³
 Energy Tours for finding leakages
 Training on technical skills and awareness
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Production Stops
Weekend /
Holiday
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Employee Engagement
World Environment Day,
annual UN event June 4th
 Central theme 2010 WATER
 Focus on behaviour change on water
use
 Best Idea Water Saving Contest
356 ideas
 Celebration of Winner Leuven Brewery
 “We Run for Water”, a charity
project for WaterAid, 700 employees
ran 4000 km
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Employee Engagement
Competition between breweries
 Better World Trophy for the brewery with the best
improvement in water usage
 Yearly celebration at the Supply Convention, Jupille
in 2010
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On track in 2010
 Wernigerode brewery is a benchmark for water usage
with 3,2 hl/hl production
 N° 1 Western Europe
 N° 4 AB InBev Globally
 Best performer worldwide: Cartersville US
water usage of 3,04 hl/hl production
 Germany, water usage of 3,92 hl/hl production
 Belgian breweries achieved a water reduction of
11,9% in 2010 versus 2009
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Concluding
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Water reduction as part of our Better World Dream is a
priority for our company as it is for the broader
society to which we belong
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Key strengths of our organization are commitment of
our people, top down target setting, standardized
processes and focus, which make us reach challenging
goals
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We have still a lot to do, but we take it as a challenge.
Our drive is strong and we are making steady progress,
we will achieve our ambitious targets
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