TINE Bergen, Norway

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

• Cooperative owned by Norwegian milk producers.
• 31 dairies in Norway and 7 subsidiaries in six foreign countries.
• Main products: milk, cheese and other dairy products.
• Annual turnover in 2018: NOK 23.5 billion.
• Dairies traditionally use high temperature steam for high temperature needs.

THE PROJECT:

• In 2017, TINE set out to build “the greenest dairy in Europe”.
• TARGET: Overall energy reduction of 40% compared to traditional dairy.
• The chosen solution featured integrated energy recovery using heat pumps.
• Hybrid Energy was chosen as the main supplier, delivering a complete heat recovery system built around a GreenPAC.
• The GreenPAC made it possible to cover the whole temperature range using recovered heat with district heating as backup.

RESULTS:

• No fossil boilers. No chimney.
• Dairy said to be “modernizing the dairy industry”
• Annual savings: Approx. 4.2 GWh.
• Most energy efficient dairy in Norway.
• In 2019 TINE won the Norwegian Heat Pump Awards.
• Later in 2019, TINE won the prestigious European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) Heat Pump City of the Year Award.