Craig Mostyn Group unveiled a new $20 million investment in the livestock industry’s circular economy yesterday, with the official opening of a new poultry line at our Talloman facility in Hazelmere, WA.
We were honoured to have the facility officially launched by WA Minister for Agriculture and Food; Fisheries; Forestry; Small Business; Mid West, the Hon. Jackie Jarvis MLC and attended by our Chair Neil Kearney and Board members David Foote, David Keyte, Andrew Mostyn and Nicki Anderson.
Part of the Group’s $100m capital upgrade program across our processing sites, the new poultry line will process 50,000 tonnes per year of chicken byproducts into stock and aqua feed, pet food, biofuel feedstock and fertilisers.
Talloman is WA’s only chicken renderer, ensuring chicken byproducts from abattoirs, boning rooms, butchers and supermarkets around WA are converted into valuable products instead of being consigned to landfill.
Craig Mostyn Group CEO Wayne Crofts said although the Group had a significant focus on supplying protein for families both domestically and around the world through its V&V Walsh, Linley Valley Pork and Jade Tiger Abalone businesses, Talloman’s rendering facility was an important company asset to ensure circularity.
“The circular economy, where products and materials are reused, repaired or recycled as the case may be, for as long as possible to minimise waste and maximise resource efficiency, is important to the Craig Mostyn Group,” Mr Crofts said.
In addition to increasing capacity, the new facility uses less gas, improves wastewater quality, and suppresses odour through a negative pressure room, and biofilter.
The delivery of this project is a credit to the entire team at Talloman and their extra efforts working in and around the comissioning of the facility and in particular General Manager Ben Baron, Project Manager Andrew Cahill, and Operations Manager Greg Cotter.
The tallow industry maintains a special place in our Group’s history. Craig Mostyn was founded more than 100 years ago by Robert Mostyn and George Craig to trade tallow to the United Kingdom.