The cost of CO2 has tripled in the past six months, with breweries big and small struggling through ongoing shortages.
"This is our peak time of the year. It's summer, it's beer-drinking weather and we can't package beer. It's a disaster," Ruffell said.
Since the Marsden Point refinery was decommissioned last year, the only domestic production of food-grade CO2 is at the Kapuni liquid carbon dioxide plant in Taranaki, owned by Todd Energy.
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