Arla Boosts Climate-Friendly Production

18 February 2014

With an ambition to double its exports of European dairy products to growth markets outside the EU by 2017, Arla has announced a new investment plan for the coming year containing investments of up to EUR 290 million (DKK 2.2 billion), of which a portion is set aside for climate improvements in production:

“This year we are increasing our investments to dairy sites that contribute to our export out of Europe. Our sales on the growth markets outside the EU are growing at a fast pace, and we must prepare ourselves to meet the rapidly growing demand in years to come. In Arla we are determined to create good growth, and we are therefore also investing more than 125 million DKK in projects that will make our production chain even more climate-friendly,” says Vice-CEO in Arla Foods, Povl Krogsgaard.

State-of-the-art heating pumps and water-saving equipment

All of Arla's 67 dairy sites around the world are all working to reduce their carbon emissions. Arla's investment of more than EUR 16 million (DKK 125 million) will thus be allocated to projects that will deliver environmental improvements at individual dairies in order to reduce energy consumption:

“The target set in our climate strategy in Arla is to reduce our overall CO₂ emission by 25% by 2020. Our production plays a key role in the efforts to reach that target, and therefore we are investing in new state-of-the-art heating pumps and water-saving equipment. This will reduce our energy consumption and our emission of CO₂,” says Povl Krogsgaard.

Arla’s investments in environmental improvements are expected to reduce the Group’s overall energy consumption in production by 2.3% in 2014, which is equivalent to a reduction of 62,115 MWh (or the same as the annual energy consumption of approximately 13,800 standard households).

About Arla

Arla Foods is a international dairy company owned by 12.000 farmers from Denmark, Sweden, The UK, Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg. Arla Foods is one of the strongest players in the international dairy arena, with a wide range of of dairy products of higest quality. Well known brands like Lurpak® and Castello® belongs to the Arla family. Arla Foods is also the worlds largest manufacturer of organic products.

Read the entire press release at Arla's website.

Source: Arla

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