Green ice cream: Mackie's debuts emissions-slashing biomass freezer technology

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Scottish ice cream maker begins installation of multi-million pound freezer powered by ammonia made from on-site biomass boilers

"One of Europe's greenest and most ambitious" freezers is set to be installed at ice cream maker Mackie's family farm in Aberdeenshire, in a move designed to cut both costs and carbon emissions for the...

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