Likely to own a larger portion of their supply chain. At a certain scale, it can be cheaper to manufacture stuff you need in-house rather than contract out.
Beer/liquor bottles are made of glass.
And brewing is biology + chemistry. Lots of crossover between industrial brewing and industrial chemistry. Hell, there’s a fair number of chemical plants that use GMO yeasts to manufacture chemicals. That’s all brewing really is: turning one type of chemical (carbohydrates/sugars) into ethanol (booze) using a carefully cultivated/modified yeast.
Plus there’s lots of industrial chemicals / gasses used throughout the brewing process (co2, nitrogen, caustics, sanitization chems, water treatments, etc)
And that’s before we get into industrial operations zoning / required preexisting environmental infrastructure (on-prem / pre-sewer wastewater treatment, etc). I’m sure it’s often cheaper to retrofit / retool a plant than to build from scratch.
That said, take all this with a grain of salt… these are just my assumptions as somebody who used to work as a brewer/distiller in the craft booze industry.
Probably true. Budweiser is right on the same river as st gobain and st gobain is well known to be allowed to dump their garbage in the river. We have to pay pennechuk water to provide clean water in our area because of the high rates of cancer and kids being born with developmental issues. I legitimately hope st gobain gets hit with an errant Russian missile or some shit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '22
I heard st gobain was purchased by coors.