Doing small and big things for the environment

Environment

The aim at Paulig's modern roasteries is contently to improve operational environmental friendliness. The roastery in Vuosaari completed its fourth full year of operation and the Tver plant completed its third. By fine-tuning the building's functions and the production processes, we were able to further optimise energy use. In environmental matters, the aim is also harmonisation throughout the Paulig Group. We seek to deploy common main benchmarks for monitoring environmental impacts in all Group units over the next few years.

Considerable reduction in consumption of packaging materials

At Paulig, the environmental impacts of packages are reduced in three different ways: reducing the quantity of material used, the greenhouse gases from package production, and the use of non-renewable natural resources.

Great progress was achieved in this work in 2014, as over 96,000 kg less packaging material was used in Vuosaari than in 2013, and Paulig sent out the first coffee in totally aluminium-free laminate packages.

Energy consumption and wastes closely monitored

In 2014, state-owned organisation Motiva, which encourages companies to greater energy and material efficiency, carried out an energy survey at the Vuosaari roastery. This showed that energy efficiency has been factored in at the roastery very successfully. The hardware is modern and the personnel's awareness of the subject is at a high level. There were also opportunities for improvements found, such as more precise control of the ventilation running times and loadings, and the recovery of energy from exhaust gases could be made more efficient. Lisätään Mitä toimenpiteitä poiki?

Energy and water consumption at the roasteries is monitored closely. The roasteries' electricity consumption last year held steady at the previous level, at Vuosaari consumption grew slightly, 1.3% per tonne of output. The combined energy consumption at Vuosaari (electricity, natural gas, district heating) was down by 3% on the previous year, however. natural gas consumption declined by 5.6% and district heating by 8.2%. These figures were calculated per tonne of coffee produced. The savings were generated by optimisation of the production process and building automation.

Water consumption is small in the roastery's manufacturing. In 2014, the water consumed at Vuosaari was 0.21 m3 per tonne of coffee produced, and in Tver it was 0.16 m3. In the future, the aim is to differentiate more effectively the water consumption arising from manufacturing and office work so that action to reduce consumption can be targeted more efficiently on the right things.

Quantities of waste have been systematically monitored at Paulig since 2002. The objective is for all wastes to be reutilised as material or energy. In the course of the past five years, the total quantity of waste at Vuosaari has been halved in practice, and no mixed waste is produced any longer at all. In 2014, the quantity of energy waste was reduced by 6.5 per cent and the overall waste quantity by 6.4% on the previous year.

The total quantity of organic waste declined at Vuosaari by 6.7%. The majority of organic waste is comprised of coffee wastage formed during production. The reduction in organic waste is accounted for by better possibilities for the recycling of coffee wastage.

It is also intended to reduce the quantity of mixed and organic waste in Tver and to increase the proportion of wastes being recycled. During 2014, the quantity of mixed waste declined in Tver by 15% per tonne of output relative to the previous year, and organic waste was reduced correspondingly by 6%.

 

The year 2014 in figures

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