Carbon Neutral Distillery.

Gray was selected to perform fully integrated services on the 72,000 s.f. bourbon distillery and dried grain facility, which is located on a 144-acre site in Lebanon, KY. The facility features an automated distillery process, including a granary, mash cooking, fermentation distillation, and barrel filling. Leveraging its deep industry experience and resources, the Gray family of brands integrated complete turnkey solutions for the project.

Gray provided full civil, structural, architectural, and mechanical/electrical design and construction for the distillery and barrel-aging warehouse. Gray’s onsite technical team handled coordination of all building trades with mechanical, electrical, and equipment installation subcontractors.

Gray Solutions, a Gray company provided automation & controls for the project, including I/O panels and PLC coding for the distillery process. As the process integrator for the Diageo Lebanon Distillery project, Gray Solutions was responsible for the development of the mass and energy balances, PFD and P&ID, equipment general arrangements and stack-ups, process equipment procurement, and vendor management. Additionally, Gray Solutions provided the overall manufacturing network architecture design, installation, and integration with the business LAN.

The distillery boasts an annual production capacity of 10 million proof gallons and will bring more than 30 full-time jobs to the area. Even more impressive, the facility is completely carbon neutral, powered by 100% renewable electricity throughout the cooking, distillation, and dry house processes.

“Gray is proud to play a role in the carbon neutral efforts happening at the Diageo Lebanon facility,” said Stephen Gray, president and CEO of Gray. “Diageo’s commitment to sustainability will no doubt impact and challenge the industry toward advancement.”