50% less wood consumption with CleanSmoke
According to a new study from the Thünen Institute for Forest Ecosystems, the proportion of trees with healthy crowns in Germany has never been so low since 1984. So far, 180,000 hectares of forest have already died. It is not without reason that the United Nations, in its " Sustainability Development Goals", therefore also calls for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems and the sustainable management of forests. "Smokehouses are increasingly viewed critically in terms of wood consumption, probably also favored by climate change," says Uwe Vogel, Chairman of the CleanSmoke Coalition, a joint initiative of primary smoke product manufacturers, food producers and retailers. "With CleanSmoke, smoking enterprises as well as trade and consumers can easily show more responsibility for the forests and clearly lower the wood consumption".
The coalition looks to have a new approach on technology used to smoke food products in order to preserve the environment.
Compared to conventional smoking processes (friction or smoulder smoke), the innovative CleanSmoke smoking process can save a lot of wood - namely around 50%. CleanSmoke uses so-called pre-cleaned primary smoke condensates, which are produced exclusively from untreated residual wood. These are sawdust and wood chips from sawmills and the furniture industry or thinning, crown and branch wood from forestry.
According to calculations of the German Institute of Food Technologies (DIL), the potential for wood savings through the application of CleanSmoke amounts to approximately 3,400 tonnes per year. This, for example, could be used to build more than 100 wooden houses. The classic smoking process uses approx. 3.75 kg of wood per ton of smoked meat. The primary smoke condensate for the required amount of CleanSmoke can be produced from 1.9 kg of wood.
According to the DIL, the consumption of wood for conventional smoking is almost twice as high as for CleanSmoke. The use of about 6.8 million tons of wood for smoulder and friction smoking is compared to only about 3.4 million tons of residual wood for the production of primary smoke condensates. CleanSmoke can therefore also be understood as active protection of the native forests. Not least for this reason, the CleanSmoke Coalition (CSC) demands that products smoked with CleanSmoke should be labeled as resource-friendly.
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