Sustainability
Our business depends on the availability of barley. No barley, no malt. No malt, no beer. The best barley provides the best malt, which in return provides the best beer. To secure a sustainable barley production, we work together with farmers, knowledge institutions, breweries and distilleries.
Sustainable Agriculture
We are committed to sustainable agriculture and are part of multiple platforms that certify and enable farmers. We are a member of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) and Skylark Foundation. In addition, we are also involved in a few other local initiatives, such as ‘Farmer Beer Water’ at Lieshout maltings and local sourcing at the Koningshoeven brewery. With these initiatives, we tackle the wide ambitions that sustainable agriculture has, such as safeguarding biodiversity, ensuring healthy soils, protecting crop sustainably, using green energy, empowering farmers and sharing knowledge.
Environmental
responsibility
Improving our water and energy efficiency has long been a focus for us. Over the past 10 years we have taken significant steps. We developed new targets for 2025 and 2030 and investigated ways to replace our natural gas usage with other renewable sources.
Our ambition is to reduce our CO2 emissions with 35% by 2025 and 70% by 2030. Our CO2 emission and water usage for 2018 were: 193kg C02 per ton malt, and 3m3 water per ton malt.