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Lion Brewery helps develop animal feed supplement
The Lion Brewery Ltd has helped develop an animal feed supplement based on spent yeast which could save millions of rupees in foreign exchange from importing expensive animal feed supplements for pets. Spent yeast is a brewery by-product.

The product will be available in power and capsule forms, in different pack sizes and will be distributed by Hector Pietersz & Co Ltd (HPCL), the company said at the launch of the product last week.

Hector Pietersz, Managing Director, HPCL told the Sunday Times FT that his firm buys the spent yeast from Lion Brewery and transforms it into products such as food supplement for animals. The product is also available in large pack sizes and it could be given to cattle, poultry, pigs, cats and dogs.
Dr Chad Kanagachandran, Manager, Special Projects, Lion Brewery said that the waste water sludge spent yeast is transformed into organic fertilizer, packed and marketed by HPCL. Around four metric tons per month is turned out as animal food.

He said the beer company has installed machinery worth around Rs 7 million to dry the sludge into flakes and HPCL powders and turns them into capsules.
Earlier Lion Brewery had paid for the disposal of this waste, but the company hopes to earn a profit by turning the spent yeast into animal feed in the future.

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