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Green Plant of the Year: Keystone Potato Products—Mining Sustainability

Cleaned water from an abandoned coal mine and landfill-sourced methane help Keystone Potato Products process potatoes at a nearly 100% utilization rate with no waste -- success stories that helped it win our 2024 Green Plant of the Year Award.

November 7, 2024 

2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 7:00 PM GMT

 Duration: 1 hour 

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Summary

Our 2024 Green Plant of the Year winner, Hegins, Pa.-based Keystone Potato Products, was designed to extract maximum value out of every potato that passes through its doors. Through the utilization of methane from the neighboring landfill to fire its boilers and of water drawn from the abandoned coal mines below it, which is cleaned to potable levels, Keystone has pushed the boundaries of what it means to be a sustainable food processing facility. Join us to learn about these unique initiatives from the Keystone leadership team on Nov. 7, 2024.

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Green Plant of the Year Winner:

Speakers:

David Masser
CEO of the Masser Family of Companies
President, Keystone Potato Products

Masser is CEO of the Masser Family of Companies, an eighth-generation potato company that includes Sterman Masser Inc., Keystone Potato Products, Masser Logistic Services and Lykens Valley Grain. He grew up on a potato farm in Sacramento, Pa., learning the business from the ground up — and is proud of his “pure potato genes.” Masser graduated from Penn State University and returned to the company after college in 1999 as VP of Sales before becoming president in 2008.

Michael McDonald
Food & Beverage Projects Group
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions

Michael has been with Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions for 32 years.  His career has included Application Engineering, System Design Engineering – Sales, and Global Key Accounts, all in the Custom Projects Group, and exclusively in the Food & Beverage sector since 2000.   He currently works on Beverage Ingredient Water projects, and Recovered Water/Reuse (up to Zero Liquid Discharge) Food & Beverage projects.

Michael was graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelors of Science in Physics, and Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Russian Area Studies and Russian Language & Literature.

Moderator

Andy Hanacek | Senior Editor, Plant Operations | Food Processing