At High Liner, our commitment to sustainability reaches beyond who we purchase our seafood from.  

We feel a great responsibility to provide you with a quality product that follows the best practices of sustainability from the ocean to your plate.

Here are some of the things we are doing already:

Processing Plants

Among the environmental initiatives we’ve launched over the past two years at our processing plants are: 
• A new start-up schedule that has reduced electrical demand by 10.5%.
• Installation of a new under-floor warehouse heating system that has reduced heating oil consumption by 12%.
• Converted from heavy bunker C oil to 100% recycled cooking oil to significantly reduce emissions.
• Installed low energy lighting and motion sensors so that lights are only on when there are people present.

High Liner has also taken significant steps to reduce and improve our waste products. Our solid waste-recycling program captures 98.5% of all our generated waste, while our liquid separation equipment improves our ability to remove oil and solids from effluent streams.

Further, in 2008, we partnered with the Energy Network Operations Centre (EnerNOC). Through this innovative demand response program, High Liner has been able to reduce plant energy use by more than two megawatts. To learn more about the EnerNOC project, click here.

Packaging Initiatives

Packaging is another area which is key to High Liner’s sustainability efforts. This includes reducing packaging sizes and using low volatile organic compound inks, non-corrugated cartons for shipping and more recyclable materials. Like our other sustainability initiatives, it is an ongoing process and we continue to work closely with our packaging suppliers to identify other opportunities to make High Liner’s packaging as environmentally-friendly as possible.

Other Initiatives

Even when a High Liner’s product is out the door and on its way to market, we are still focused on sustainability. We’ve streamlined our transportation network to eliminate the need for transfers from one transport company to another, reduced dead heading trailers from Lunenburg (transporting empty trailers) by using a local yard for them, cut our pallet wrap use in half by installing an auto-wrap system, and we’ve reorganized order delivery to Newfoundland to reduce shipments from two to one each week.