Carbon Neutral Distillery.

Gray was selected to perform fully integrated services on the 72,000 s.f. bourbon distillery and dried grain facility. The facility features an automated distillery process including a granary, mash cooking, fermentation distillation, and barrel filling. Through the Gray family of brands, complete turnkey solutions have been integrated into this project.

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

Gray Solutions, a Gray company is currently overseeing the process along with the automation & controls of 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 is responsible for the development of the mass and energy balances, PFD and P&ID development, equipment general arrangements and stack-ups, process equipment procurement, and vendor management. Gray Solutions is also providing the overall manufacturing network architecture design, installation, and integration with the business LAN.

Diageo recently announced the 10M proof gallon distillery will be carbon neutral when production begins in the first half of 2021. Taking its sustainability objectives to an even higher level of commitment, no fossil fuels will be consumed for the bourbon production.

“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.”

The new bourbon distillery and Distillers Dried Grains (DDG) process will be situated on approximately 144 acres in Marion County and will produce up to 10 million proof gallons per year.