Kettle Foods

Kettle Foods uses B99 and B50 biodiesel blends in its vehicles, including its fleet of "bio-beetles."

The Oregon-based company says Jim Green, Kettle Foods Ambassador, "On average, for every 7,600 bags of Kettle™ brand potato chips we produce, we create one gallon of waste vegetable oil. This waste vegetable oil is stored in a tank and, when enough accumulates, it is picked up and taken to Sequential Pacific Biodiesel right here in our home town of Salem, OR. That facility can make one gallon of 100% biodiesel for every gallon of waste oil we give them."

At Kettle Foods, we consciously use the healthiest sunflower and safflower oils, which is why we think it's fitting that we run a growing fleet of company vehicles on biodiesel. In fact, 100% of the waste vegetable oil from our production process is converted into biodiesel. This rich nectar that we like to call "Flower Power®" is a natural alternative to petroleum diesel fuel. Its use benefits all of us by saving as much as eight tons in CO2 emissions every year.

More information about Kettle Foods can be found at: http://www.kettlefoods.com.

Spring 2010