Tate & Lyle’s Lafayette South Plant Awarded 2015 Energy Star Certification

01 Mar 2016 --- Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of food ingredients and solutions, is pleased to announce that its Lafayette South corn wet mill in Lafayette, Indiana, US has been awarded Energy Star certification by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its superior energy efficiency performance in 2015.

This certification is awarded by the EPA annually and Tate & Lyle’s plant in Lafayette was one of nine plants to earn certification for the first time.

Edward Butt, VP Sustainability, Tate & Lyle commented: “At Tate & Lyle, we place great importance not just on what we do, but how we do it. We are working continuously wherever we can to reduce the environmental footprint of our operations, our products and their packaging, and of our supply chain. We are very proud that Lafayette South is the only corn processing plant in the US to achieve the EPA’s Energy Star certification in 2015.”

Daniel Kirk, Plant Manager Lafayette South, Tate & Lyle added: "The Energy Star certification is the result of the hard work and long term commitment to sustainability of our operations team at Tate & Lyle. It shows our sustainability approach is resulting in real improvements in our environmental performance."