Claims Form

2009/10
FIA Westpac Food and Beverage Industry Award

Complete one Claims Form for each category you enter. Simply photocopy the blank Claims Form or
download from the Food Industry Association WA Inc website – www.foodindustry.org.au

Sands LNG Green Fuel Initiative for Refrigerated F&B Transport

Product or Project Title ________________________________________________________________________________________

Award categories (please tick as appropriate)

Innovation Best Retail Product Best Food Service Product/Achievement

✔ Environment and Sustainability Best Service to Industry Excellence in Supply Chain Export Best Marketing Campaign

Western Australian Components: (please tick as appropriate)

✔ Manufacturing ✔ Design ✔ Intellectual Property ✔ All

Justification for Award (Please be concise and explain why your entry fits the Award criteria in the section below)
Sands Fridge Lines deserves the Environment award because it is the only refrigerated F&B transport
company that delivers environmental sustainability across Western Australia. It has achieved several
‘Australia’s firsts’ in replacing toxic diesel fuel with cleaner liquified natural gas (LNG) in long-haul vehicles
delivering F&B perishables. Specifically developed for Australia’s heavy transport industry with its own capital
and grants from the federal government’s Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) harnessing the technology
expertise of WA-based Kleenheat Gas, Advanced Engine Components, Orbital Engine Company,
Sydney-based Rare Consulting, Melbourne-based Alternative Fuels Technology, and strategic offshore
experts using prototype engines, Sands’ environmental-sustainability initatives enable a) its road trains to
achieve a 25% and 17% (audited) reduction in tail-pipe emissions of toxic greenhouse gases (GHGs) while
running on 95% LNG and 85% LNG fuel systems respectively; and b) its urban vehicles to further reduce
toxic emissions on 100% LNG. Thus, Sands Fridge Lines enables clients to significantly reduce the carbon
footprint of their F&B supply chain. Today, Sands Fridge Lines is the only transport company in Australia with
a fleet of LNG-fueled heavy transport vehicles and its own LNG refueling station. Sixteen trucks inSands
Fridge Lines’ long-haul fleet of 30 and two in its urban fleet of 20 run on LNG, and this green fleet has
chalked up significant kilometres transporting F&B perishables across WA. Sands plans to progressively
convert its fleet to LNG, and be a catalyst in the F&B industry’s leap to green-fueled transport in Australia.
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Any additional information can be added as an addendum. Judges can only assess the information they are provided, so make sure to include all
package info, relevant to the category criteria in this section.
You can enter a maximum of three categories for each entry for the payment of $165 for FIA members and $230 for non members. If you
wish to enter more than three categories for the one entry an additional fee will be applicable.
You will receive one complimentary award celebration event ticket.

Checklist – ✔ Completed Entry Form

Have you? ✔ Completed an individual Claims Form for each category entered
✔ Named participating companies involved in development of project/product
✔ Selected relevant Award category/categories
✔ Signed Eligibility Statement on Entry Form
✔ Indicated Western Australian components
✔ Attached additional information, if necessary
✔ Marked any proprietary information, if relevant
✔ Retained a copy of Entry/Claims Form
✔ Enclosed a cheque or credit card detail SUBMIT
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2009/10
FIA Westpac Food and Beverage Industry Award

Justification for Award (Continued from previous page)

(Environment Award) As the champion of the LNG Green Fuel Initiative for
Refrigerated F&B Transport in WA since 2001, Sands Fridge Lines has been
instrumental in driving this bold initiative that can accelerate environmental gains
in the entire Australian F&B industry. As a characteristically low-profile family
business run by the publicity-shy Sands brothers Peter, Kevin, and Tony,
Sands Fridge Lines has never made its achievements public till today.

In the eight years it spent developing sustainable green fuel solutions, Sands Fridge Lines feels privileged
and honoured to have attracted the overwhelming support of the Australian Government and innovative
technology companies to help fulfill its vision. Sands’ breakthroughs include running Australia’s first
LNG-fueled road train (85% LNG system) in 2001; installing Perth’s first LNG refueling station in 2003,
running Australia’s first 95% LNG-fueled road train in 2004; and running Australia’s first refrigerated urban
distribution vehicle on 100% LNG in 2009.

Sands’ innovation, environmental sustainability, and service-to-industry achievements are possible only with
the faith of the Australian Government in the form of grants, and the expertise of Australian and offshore
technology companies in building and refining prototype fuel-conversion kits for prototype engines, and
fitting them to prototype trucks to meet Sands’ ambitions and tenacity. These achievements are
substantially shaped by Australian manufacturing, design, and intellectual property input as follows.

In 2001, Kleenheat Gas WA suggested an emerging LNG fuel solution to Sands during a time when existing
green fuel sources were impractical for use by heavy transport vehicles. On Sands’ appeal, the Australian
government (via the AGO) funded Clean Air Power in the US to develop 85%-LNG prototype engines in
2001 (410hp) and 2004 (500hp), the latter of which was further enhanced by WA-based Orbital Engine
Company to improve vehicle driveability and reliability.

When Sands heard in 2005 that there was a 95%-LNG engine available from Westport Innovations in
Canada, it took two years to convince Westport to fly its representatives over to Australia to build a
prototype High Pressure Direct Injection (HPDI) engine kit for installation in a prototype Kenworth truck by
Alternative Fuels Technolgy (AFT) in Melbourne in 2007 under the auspices of Sands Fridge Lines and the
AGO. Having arrived at the cutting edge of green technology for its heavy vehicles, Sands turned to
Advanced Engine Components (AEC) in WA to develop a 100% LNG-fueled refrigerated urban distribution
vehicle, the second of which was delivered a week before this submission.

Green-fueled heavy transport vehicles of this calibre had never been developed in the past due to the
prohibitive cost of R&D, the lack of demand for a green engine to move 90-tonne road trains, and the fact
that many green fuels like solar power, wind, bio-diesel, or compressed natural gas (CNG) could not be
applied to heavy vehicles. Sands Fridge Lines have devoted eight challenging yet exhilarating years and a
significant amount of their own capital on this journey to environmental sustainability for the F&B industry.

About Sands Fridge Lines: As a refrigerated F&B supplies transporter and distributor operating in the most
isolated city in the world, Sands Fridge Lines typically makes 850km to 4,000km round trips in 90-tonne road
trains to customers in remote destinations like Albany, Broome, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, the Kimberley, and
the WA-South Australia border, as well as urban deliveries in metropolitan Perth. Its fleet travels millions of
kilometres per year, and converting more kilometres to green fuel will significantly reduce the carbon
footprint of its F&B customers’ supply chain and provide an innovative, environmentally sustainable service
to accelerate the industry ’s move to green fueled transport in Australia.

Any additional information can be added as an addendum. Judges can only assess the information they are provided, so make sure to include all
package info, relevant to the category criteria in this section.
You can enter a maximum of three categories for each entry for the payment of $165 for FIA members and $230 for non members. If you
wish to enter more than three categories for the one entry an additional fee will be applicable.
You will receive one complimentary award celebration event ticket.