Ammonia plants, which aid in fertilizer production and also give off CO2 to be captured, have been offline for off-season maintenance, according to Gasworld, which predicted a “long, hot summer ahead” for the U.S. This time, disruptions to other CO2 streams are causing the problem. The beer industry dealt with a shortage during Summer 2020, when production of CO2 – often a byproduct of ethanol production – plummeted along with demand for gasoline. Since finding out its supply was about to be cut, Night Shift has called several other suppliers, only to be told that there is no CO2 available for purchase.ĬO2 is used to move beer throughout the production process, to package it into cans and bottles and to push it through draft lines for taproom service. “We just learned last week,” Oxton added. “We’ll probably run out of CO2 sometime today.” “CO2 is definitely a catalyst for this, or maybe the final straw in a lot of ways,” Burns said. If employees are still sidelined by October 1, the company will offer them severance packages, Burns said.īurns and co-founder Michael Oxton pointed to supply chain disruptions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a driving force behind the immediate production pivot to other locations. We don’t have all the answers, like we would like, today.” After that, we’re still unsure because we’re reacting to this news and we wanted to be transparent and forthcoming to the staff and give them as much notice as soon as we knew. “Then, if they have to sit at home, that’s what’s going to happen. “What we’ve told the production staff is like there might not be any work after today, but we are going to guarantee everybody’s paycheck till October 1, so two months,” co-founder Rob Burns said.
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