Following the opening of its latest facility in Malaysia, the company’s third CSR report further establishes the responsible values of Palsgaard across its global network.
Palsgaard has set an overall target of becoming CO2-neutral by 2020.
“This is an extremely ambitious target for a company with very energy intensive production processes,” said CEO Jakob Thøisen. “It is therefore gratifying to note that Palsgaard in 2012 managed to keep its CO2 emission per kilo of finished product at 2011 levels.”
One of the key contributions towards this target involved installing a solar cell system at Palsgaard’s factory in Mexico. This ensures that min 85% of the Mexican facility’s electricity consumption is CO2 neutral.
Other initiatives include using energy from wind farms, replacing fuel oil with natural gas and using straw from its own fields as a renewable energy source for heating, and implementing a wide variety of energy friendly plant optimisations. New considerations include a possible biofuel plant in its Danish plant.
Source: Palsgaard
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