Rowan Food & Biomass Engineering

Rowan Food & Biomass Engineering was established in 2007 as a family run business and has gone on to manufacture and supply high quality, affordable depackaging machines around the world.

Amongst other applications, food waste is a particular environmental, economical and commercial issue they support, with their primary mission being to avoid such waste going to landfill. Using their engineering expertise, they do this by enabling the separation or removal of outer packaging so the inner food waste can be processed and used for other purposes such as the production of green energy (a process known as anaerobic digestion),animal feed or composting. The separated packaging can then be sent for recycling, further saving waste, harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and cost.

Key to their success if that Rowan Food & Biomass Engineering understand the need to balance environmental targets with commercial reality. Their solutions seek to make both motivations work hand-in-hand, when so often one seems to be at the expense of another. Through their innovation, expensive landfill costs can be mitigated and potentially additional revenue lines added by turning waste into a valuable resource.

Last year, the resultant recovered organic food waste produced by Rowan’s machines was found to be an amazing 99.939% pure. In this programme, it’s Directors will tell us why this matters, and why it should be a key consideration in order to maximise the yields of biogas for both commercial and environmental benefit.

We will also learn about how a depackaging machine such as theirs differ to other solutions, and how not all depackaging machines are the same. At a time where the UK Government is rolling out mandatory food waste recycling across its remaining councils and providing grants for the redistribution of edible food waste from farms, there needs to be more focus than ever on how to best get value for money. Director, Matt Rowan, explains the importance of the finer details to consider, such as water consumption, energy consumption and purity of output, in order to maximise upon technology and investments.