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2 Taylor Preston Company Profile Taylor Preston operates a modern export meat processing plant in Wellington, New Zealand. Privately owned by Andrew Taylor, Rod Preston and Christopher Grace. The Taylor and Grace families have been farming in NZ for around 150 years and the Preston family have been butchers for over 100 years in the Wellington region. The multi species plant processes around 1,500,000 head of sheep, lambs, goats, and beef annually.

3 Company Personnel CEO - Simon Gatenby Chief Financial Officer -Bruce Shelley Marketing Manager - Chris Pyke Plant Manager - John Taylor Technical Manager - Alisa Bradley HR Manager - Carolyn Thomson

4 Taylor Preston Company Profile The majority of livestock originates from the fertile and lush pastures of the Wairarapa, Manawatu, Rangitikei and the rolling hills of southern Hawke s Bay. Strong supplier relationships also exist in the South Island to provide year round supply of livestock. The plant operates at close to capacity from October through to June and operates a single shift five days a week in the low season. The slaughter chains and further processing departments (including our integrated onsite cold store) are double shift operations.

5 Taylor Preston statistics Export sales $270m Exports to over 60 countries Employs 850 people directly 2000 jobs indirectly Wages/Salary s over $30M/year Processes 52 weeks of the year 5% of the NZ lamb kill 2-3% of the NZ beef kill 85% of product is sold after further processing with 15% sold in carcass form 6 th biggest processor of stock in NZ

6 Export Markets Most of our products are exported to customers around the world. Often these are sent fresh (chilled) by sea and air to people in places such as Belgium, Switzerland, UK and France. Our frozen products are sent to many other regions around the world including the Middle East, USA, Asia, and many European Union countries such as France, and Spain. We export meat to over 60 countries internationally. Meat processed at Taylor Preston is also sold locally. Taylor Preston is halal certified and fully EU and USDA licensed for the export of sheep, lambs, goats, and beef. We also hold BRC AA grade accreditation.

7 Volume/Return Statistics Ovine The largest export market by volume is China The largest export market by $ return is France Bovine The largest export market by volume and $ return is the USA Exports to Malaysia between 2014 and 2016 equated to just under 72,000MT (Ovine and Bovine combined)

8 Brands Taylor Preston is our housebrand. It carries our company name so we have gone to great efforts to make this a brand people can rely on for quality, value and product integrity.

9 Brands Natural farm was launched at the beginning of the new millennium and is a mark of supreme quality. Only the highest value cuts are carefully selected for this brand.

10 Brands Natural Farm Angus and Hereford are recently added lines of superior beef cuts. They are chosen carefully and against a strict set of criteria to ensure only the highest quality is packed.

11 Site Odour Improvements Installation of a bio-filter Major rendering plant upgrade with new extraction ducting from rendering to bio filter New enclosures for the effluent treatment New enclosure for milli-screening/contra-shears Changes to cleaning down of yards Stock trucks stopped being able to dumping their effluent on site Improved wash down facilities for truck to wash out Covering of waste water pits/interceptors Covers on main waste bins and specified pick-up times for waste bins Odour neutralising sprays on perimeter fencing in yards, rendering and effluent treatment areas Running the rendering main drier at a lower temperature Locals directly reporting odours to TPL

12 . Process flow of stock and product

13 . Waste water process flow

14 . Bins and Truck wash

15 Water blasting off site of waste bins on long weekends Improved washing facilities for trucks Covers on all product bins and waste bins Twice daily wash down of the area

16 . Yards

17 Yards Daily wash down of the yards in the off season and twice daily wash downs during the on season Odour neutralising sprays around perimeter chlorine dioxide All stock is washed on site

18 . Rendering

19 Rendering Process odour sources extracted to the bio filter Ducts are cleaned on a maintenance schedule Labour continually monitoring rendering and washing down to keep plant clean with no product left over at the end of the processing day No off site product brought on to site to render and all rendering product is fresh Main equipment is PLC controlled and data logged Improved contacts/relationships in place to remove product from site in the event of a breakdown Processing Manager is notified of any breakdown over one hour

20 . Effluent treatment

21 Effluent treatment and waste All sumps are cleaned on maintenance cycles DAF by-product is loaded out between 11pm and 5am each day and sent for composting All by-product loadouts are carried out with trucks trays covered and extracted to the bio-filter No product left in the bin over the weekend Scheduled pick up times for waste bins Wash down of the areas every shift Water blasting off site of waste bins on long weekends

22 Technical review findings Balancing of air flow between rendering/effluent treatment. The current consent specifies extraction rates on specific items of equipment. By not specifying extraction rates the extraction can be changed to be more efficiently balanced giving better/more air removal a point source Better capture of odour at source Given the ability to change extraction rates a number of improvements have been identified 2 Decanters Separator drain enclosure Mill area General rendering area Sumps in and around the rendering process Rendering temperature and humidity This items needs future investigation and may be very difficult to achieve Monitoring of the bio filter bed pressure drop This modification is being arranged

23 Odour protocol 24 hour phone line for notification of odour issues to security Security notifies yards and rendering Supervisors/Foreman and Txt s Plant and Processing Manager about notification Supervisors/Foreman go through their areas to identify any issues as well as putting in place extra clean downs and spreading odour neutralisers Security walk through areas to assess and identify odour issues Supervisors/Forman feed findings and actions back to Security Security feedback to person findings and actions taken if the person has ask for feedback Plant Manager forwards complaint to WRC

24 TPL odour notification

25 Keeping the Community updated and informed What do individuals and the community want?

Company Profile Turnover No of employees 7 million 75

Company Profile Turnover No of employees 7 million 75 John W Munro Ltd West End, Dingwall IV15 9QF Phone 01349 862158 Fax 01349 856047 Website www.munrodingwall.co.uk EC license 1125 GM Charlie Munro 01349 862158 scotchbeef@munrodingwall.co.uk Production