Energy

Malteurop engages in ongoing, systematic study of possibilities for energy savings and the use of renewable energy sources. This is a particularly sensitive area given the fact that energy accounts for approximately a third of the total costs of malting and that the Group’s plants taken together consume the equivalent of the energy consumption of a city of 110,000 inhabitants.

For saving energy and securing its supply sources, Malteurop has developed the use of energy from co-generation plants located in close proximity to several of the Group’s malting plants.

In order to promote the use of renewable energy sources, Malteurop now invests in projects to build biomass co-generation plants. They use the principle of producing electricity and heat in the form of steam from combustion of biomass – mainly straw and wood waste. The steam is used in malting and the electricity is sold back to the grid.

  1. Social responsibility

    Malteurop is an international group, with 23 sites in 12 countries on four continents, and thus its approach to sustainable development includes concern for development of the local economies.

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  2. Soil

    Barley is among the cereal grains that require the fewest inputs (fertilizer and phytosanitary products). To rationalize and limit the use of these inputs as much as possible, Malteurop’s teams of agronomists accompany growers in putting rigorous growing itineraries in place.

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