Updated / Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
09:20
(from left to right) Matthew Kehoe from Gas Networks Ireland, William Flynn, owner and director of MF Nurseries and Martin Flynn, owner and director of MF Nurseries
MF Nurseries, which trades as Flynn s Irish Tomatoes, is to spend €1.8m on a major expansion of its tomato growing facility at Balheary, Swords in Co Dublin.
The company s expansion will see the development of new greenhouse facilities and a two-kilometre connection to the national gas network.
MF Nurseries said that switching to natural gas as its main source of energy will reduce its carbon emissions by up to 10%.
Almost all of the remaining emissions will then be captured and absorbed by the tomato plants, thanks to the company s innovative greenhouse system.