Our sector has already reduced factory emissions by 51% between 1990 and 2018 and is transitioning to more sustainable fuels.

Because of the rural location of sugar factories and limited access to high-voltage grids, full electrification is neither a cost-effective nor even feasible decarbonisation pathway for our sector. This is why we are relying on the energetic self-use of biomass, especially own-produced (from residues and waste).

In beet sugar processing nothing is wasted: a use is found for every part of the beet. Water is re-used in factory processes, the pulp is processed into animal feed or biogas, and molasses is used in animal feed or as a fermentation feedstock.