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Decarbonisation Pathway Update 2025 - Australian Red Meat Processors

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This project will deliver a technically rigorous, commercially actionable and strategically aligned update to AMPC’s decarbonisation roadmap. The updated roadmap will support AMPC in its strategic leadership on emissions reduction, and provide clear, practical guidance for its members on the pathway to carbon neutrality.

27 Oct 2025 - 2 Mar 2026

New South Wales, Australia

DETA Consulting Pty Limited

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Heat Recovery "as a system" - new to industry case study

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

AMPC’s Decarbonisation Pathway has estimated that Industrial Heat pumps will need to carry a significant portion of the electrification task for red meat processor decarbonisation. Electrification makes up 16.4% of our sectoral decarbonisation strategy, and so far only one Industrial Heat Pump has been adopted by the processor sector. This...

24 Jul 2025 - 20 Nov 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Gundagai Meat Processors (GMP)

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Managing the Energy Trilemma for the red meat processor sectors single largest energy task – refrigeration (stage 1)

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This stage 1 project will design a case study for smart management of clean, affordable, and reliable electricity. The management system design will include; time of use emissions and cost benefits, network reliability signals, and flexibility of management using thermal storage for load shifting and peak shaving. A later second...

28 Feb 2025 - 30 Sep 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Minus 40 Pty Ltd

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Rendering energy efficiency and savings through Double Effect Disc Drying

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

The most thermal energy-intensive activity on the plant is rendering (cooking drying). Natural gas is the sector's single largest source of thermal energy, providing 54% of total process heat (AMPC EPR2024). In addition to high volumes of sectoral gas consumption, some members have experienced gas price increases of up to...

5 Dec 2025 - 28 Apr 2028

New South Wales, Australia

Pinches Industries Pty Limited

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Techno-economic study for a coal fired boiler conversion to biomass co-firing

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

Despite the fact that the AMPC 2024 Environmental Performance Review revealed that the use of on-site coal fired boilers has been shrinking, there is still 15% of total sector thermal energy coming from coal fired boilers. This is most likely due to the significant cost in replacing systems and a...

7 May 2025 - 30 Sep 2025

New South Wales, Australia

NRG-ONE

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RACE 2030 – Pilot Biogas Reactor Installation and Wet Commissioning

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This project is the 2nd stage installation and commissioning of two special purpose pilot-scale anaerobic co-digesters (i.e. 2x500L) that were acquired in Dec 2023 through the 1st stage AMPC project 2024-1003 (A). This project now establishes a centralised testing facility for red meat processing waste streams and co-feedstocks that will...

8 Sep 2025 - 13 Mar 2026

New South Wales, Australia

Tessele Consultants Pty Ltd

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Advancing ACoD within the Red Meat Industry: Digestate quality assessment and standardisation

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

Challenges: Australia’s food processing industries, including red meat, face growing pressure to decarbonise and reduce the costs associated with organic waste management. Anaerobic co-digestion (ACoD) of red meat and other food industry by-products can generate renewable energy and nutrient-rich digestate. However, current regulatory frameworks classify digestate as biosolids, limiting its...

17 Nov 2025 - 30 Nov 2027

New South Wales, Australia

Race for 2030 CRC

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LEAP4Beef – Module L4B01 Project 3 - Beef Striploin Automated Chine Removal Extended Use Readiness for Data collection (Beta prototype)

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

Problem: The alpha prototype system for automated beef striploin chine removal (AMPC projects 2024-1038 and 2025-1048) is currently in use at JBS Brooklyn. While yield improvements are being validated and reportedly match the performance of JBS’s best operator, the prototype’s processing speed remains a challenge. It takes approximately 2 minutes...

2 Jun 2025 - 30 Oct 2026

New South Wales, Australia

JBS Australia Pty Limited

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Automated Hock Height Cutting

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

This project aims to improve the hook cut station in lamb kill floor at Brooklyn, which has been causing over cutting on fore shanks HAM 5030, leading to waste and inefficiency. The current manual height adjustment system at the hook cut station is inefficient and prone to human error, leading...

2 Jun 2025 - 1 Jun 2027

New South Wales, Australia

JBS Australia Pty Limited

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LalDas: A First Prototype Machine for Deboning Lamb Legs

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

Deboning lamb hindquarter legs has been attempted under AMPC Project 2025-1038 using an established machine for turkey legs (TakiDas). The results encourage an enthusiastic development for a machine that may be built and tested in an Australian Lamb processing plant. The testing of the machine delivering as automated prototype machine...

11 Jun 2025 - 15 Dec 2026

New South Wales, Australia

Mayekawa Australia

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Decarbonisation Pathway Update 2025 - Australian Red Meat Processors

Heat Recovery "as a system" - new to industry case study

Managing the Energy Trilemma for the red meat processor sectors single largest energy task – refrigeration (stage 1)

Rendering energy efficiency and savings through Double Effect Disc Drying

Techno-economic study for a coal fired boiler conversion to biomass co-firing

RACE 2030 – Pilot Biogas Reactor Installation and Wet Commissioning

Advancing ACoD within the Red Meat Industry: Digestate quality assessment and standardisation

LEAP4Beef – Module L4B01 Project 3 - Beef Striploin Automated Chine Removal Extended Use Readiness for Data collection (Beta prototype)

Automated Hock Height Cutting

LalDas: A First Prototype Machine for Deboning Lamb Legs

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