Flor de Caña Rum: Environmentally Friendly

The Flor de Caña distillery is known as one of the most efficient and eco-friendly such facilities in the world.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Compañia Licorera de Nicaragua has made a strategic commitment to the protection of the environment and to the recycling of manufacturing by-products, both requiring substantial investments. A comprehensive manufacturing process virtually eliminates product residues, as well as environmental pollution.

One example of by-products from the manufacturing process being recycled and used in other industries is the generation of 45 Megawatts of renewable electrical energy from the processing of sugar cane. The energy so produced meets the needs of the company’s sugar mill and the distillery in full. The remainder is turned over to the country’s power supplier, so that ...

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