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Water is life.
Water is a precious resource. It is essential for us too – whether it is potable for preparing dough or processing water for washing the potatoes. Did you know, for example, that just for our chips production we need six Olympic-sized pools full of water in a month? It is much too precious to let it just go down the drain.
This is another area where we consistently check our use and employ the most modern technology. The waste water from the potato washing is pre-clarified to filter out useful elements like starch and potato peels. The starch is used in our production and as glue for our cardboard boxes; the potato peels are processed into animal feed.
The pre-clarified water is reused and is brought into the potato washing cycle again. If we need additional processing water we take it out of our own well.
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Big plus: green electricity
Being economical with energy is also good for resources. Another even more important aspect is that it reduces CO² Emissions. This is why we only use eco-electricity at our factories in Neunburg and Hankensbuettel as well as at our headquarters in Neu-Isenburg.
Our energy management system carefully documents and analyses the energy use in our factories in order to continuously improve its use.
If we can find a new way to save energy then we use it. Here‘s a clever example: We use the heat that comes from the outgoing air of our frying and roasting lines to heat our buildings and water.
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No garbage is best
Less garbage is good. But no garbage is even better! That‘s why garbage is a „lost resource“ for us and we do everything we can to avoid, reuse or recycle it. This applies to our primary resources as well as packaging materials.
Here‘s an example: We wash and peel tons of potatoes daily while making our chips . The processing water contains a lot of peels and starch at the end of this process- much too good to be thrown away! Both „waste products“ can be reused – in a bio-gas facility, as animal feed or as a glue base for our cardboard suppliers.
We continuously improve our packaging so that the foils are thinner without harming the safety of the contents. We use recycled material for our cardboard.
At the end of the day, we do things at our factories just the way you would do them at home too: If there‘s no other use for it, we separate our material and dispose of it responsibly.
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Taking new roads
Before our snacks reach your home they have already put quite a few kilometers behind them: mostly by truck, train or ship. Transportation also creates CO² emissions. That‘s why we are continuously on the lookout for new ways to reduce these emissions and unburden the environment.
We plan our transport very carefully. Starting with the development of our packaging, we look at how we can improve the capacity and the load of our vehicles. Modern technology plays a part in this too: for example software that exactly calculates CO² emissions in advance.
Modern technology is also important throughout our complete fleet. New motors produce less toxic substances and use less resources.
So you can be sure: If there are new ways to unburden our environment, we will take them.
