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Since March last year, and especially during the lockdowns, we found ourselves holding a product ",{"text":29,"type":22,"marks":30},"with real intention",[31],{"type":32},"bold",{"text":34,"type":22}," and taking a close look at it. How does this company actually operate — and do they belong among the \"good ones\"? Perhaps you recently even held ",{"text":36,"type":22,"marks":37},"one of our products",[38],{"type":32},{"text":40,"type":22}," in your hands and asked yourself the very same questions. We have answers for you!",{"type":24,"content":42},[43,45,49,51,55,57,61],{"text":44,"type":22},"Reducing the carbon footprint in the ",{"text":46,"type":22,"marks":47},"production process",[48],{"type":32},{"text":50,"type":22}," is like tidying up: once you start, you don't stop until the job is done. 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We'd been thinking for some time that something had to change — and in 2020 we finally took action.",{"type":24,"content":104},[105,107,111,113,117],{"text":106,"type":22},"Together with a plumber, we achieved — through innovative structural measures — a ",{"text":108,"type":22,"marks":109},"reduction of more than 50%",[110],{"type":32},{"text":112,"type":22}," in water consumption by capturing the cooling water and now using it in a cascading system. Despite the new commissioning of the Malzwelt, our ",{"text":114,"type":22,"marks":115},"water consumption",[116],{"type":32},{"text":118,"type":22}," remained the same.",{"type":16,"attrs":120,"content":121},{"level":95},[122],{"text":123,"type":22},"Reducing waste through recycling",{"type":24,"content":125},[126,128,132,134,138],{"text":127,"type":22},"The things that end up on your doorstep! \"Where do we put all these ",{"text":129,"type":22,"marks":130},"cardboard boxes",[131],{"type":32},{"text":133,"type":22},"\", we asked ourselves one day. Into the shredder press it is! We now also shred cardboard from suppliers into filling material for our own distillates. 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We too were running out of capacity and needed a larger warehouse. Rather than building a new one, we looked for an existing space: since September 2020, part of our whiskies has been maturing in the magnificent, perfectly temperature-controlled ",{"text":169,"type":22,"marks":170},"cellars of Stift Seitenstetten",[171],{"type":32},{"text":173,"type":22},". A small footnote that we find particularly wonderful: our whiskies are ageing directly beneath the splendid marble hall where the Benedictine virtues are depicted — among them, \"moderation\".",{"type":16,"attrs":175,"content":176},{"level":95},[177],{"text":178,"type":22},"Sustainable heating",{"type":24,"content":180},[181,183,187,189,193],{"text":182,"type":22},"A distillery consumes not only a great deal of water but also a lot of ",{"text":184,"type":22,"marks":185},"heat for firing the stills",[186],{"type":32},{"text":188,"type":22},". 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