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Arla Foods Ingredients cuts CO2 emissions

30 November 2020

Arla Foods Ingredients has achieved CO2 savings of around 60,000 tonnes a year by using energy from biogas. 

The initiative forms part of ‘Green Ambition 2050’, the sustainability strategy of parent company, Arla Foods amba, which aims to become carbon net-zero by 2050.

Arla Foods Ingredients and Arla Foods amba have received methane from a biogas plant since 2019. The biomass primarily comprises manure from Arla farms, as well as production waste.

At each of Arla Foods Ingredients’ two largest production plants, there are two 4000 horsepower biogas engines which convert the methane into over 50 GWh of electricity each year. 

In 2019, CO2 emissions from the two plants totalled 105,000 tonnes. Without the use of biogas, they would have emitted 167,000 – a reduction of 62,000 tonnes. A similar saving is forecast for 2020, despite increased production.


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