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Bacardi Completes Upgrades at Aultmore Distillery
Bacardi has completed a £15 million project to upgrade its Aultmore Distillery in Speyside. The project includes a new tun room, still house, and boiler house, and will double the distillery’s production capacity.
The upgrades will also make Aultmore more energy-efficient as well, with the new boiler designed to operate on either natural gas or hydrogen fuel. The distillery has also incorporated the latest thermal vapor recompression technology to capture and reuse vapors in distilling to improve efficiency.
In addition, Bacardi has also invested in three new maturation warehouses at its Poniel blending and maturation facilities in Glasgow. The state of the art warehouses are designed to increase capacity by 15% over the bond’s other warehouses. The company also recently completed upgrades at its Macduff distillery, which produces The Deveron single malt.
Bacardi Vice President of Supply Chain, Europe, Keith Hogg said in a statement “our investment in Aultmore and Macduff distilleries and our Poniel blending and maturation centre is an important step in the bold plans we have for our premium and ultra-premium whiskies. We are so proud of the exceptional quality of our award-winning Scotch whiskies and are investing in its growth for the long-term.”
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