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Work starts on the world’s most sustainable wine bottling facility – and its right here in the UK!


Work has started on a major development in County Durham which aims to be the first of its kind to be powered entirely by renewable wind and solar energy - and heated with wine.


The Lanchester Group - which includes wine merchant Lanchester Wines and contract bottler, Greencroft Bottling – has brought forward by 12 months plans to develop a purpose built £20million, 220,000 ft2 (20,439m2) wine bottling facility at its site near Stanley. With work set to be completed in 2020, this will be the most modern and environmentally sustainable wine bottling facility in the world, housing new filling lines and increasing capability to 400 million litres per year, from 105million litres at present.


However, this isn’t your average build project. When complete, the facility will be powered using energy generated by Lanchester Group’s three on-site wind turbines and will be built with 1,000,000 Watts of solar panels which alone will generate 850,000 kWh per year.


It will also be the first business in the world to take heat from the cooling of wine to provide heat for its building, using technology developed by Lanchester Group. And, the first to work with battery manufactures to install an electricity storage


c 22 20 April 2019 www.venue-insight.com


Julian Critchlow, Director General of


Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)


officially launched work on Greencroft Two. Pictured here with Lanchester Group’s Adam Black (right)


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