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Sustainability at BENEO: Our healthy planet plan

As a leading manufacturer of functional ingredients from natural sources, our core business is to connect nutrition and health. At the same time, we need to make our value chain sustainable from farm to fork. After all, true health and wellbeing are only possible on a healthy planet.

Learn more about BENEO’s understanding of sustainability in our manifesto.  

The core elements of our Healthy Planet Plan

BENEO’s Healthy Planet Plan is built on 4 pillars which stand for the 10 impact areas that we are working on.

Foster health, nutrition and wellbeing

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sustainable ingredients
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers

Support resilient farming and supply chains

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partnership for long-term viability of farming
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers
support farmers with climate change resilience
BENEO’s ingredients are obtained from the company’s highly-valued farming community
engaging in contingency management
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers

Care for people

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securing health and safety in the workspace
BENEO has continually surpassed and exceeded safety standard expectations and always has the ambition of zero accidents
fostering diversity, inclusion and equility
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers
ensuring sociality responsible sourcing
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers

Mitigrate our impacts on the planet

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decreasing waste while increasing circularity
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers
reducing absolute greenhouse gas emmissions
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers
promoting responsible water use
BENEO works closely with its contract farmers

Growing our business while safeguarding tomorrow’s health

Sustainability has been built into the DNA of BENEO since its early days – and even before its foundation in 2007. The merger of the three companies Orafti, Palatinit and Remy enabled us to join forces to further improve as one company. Since then, we have achieved a wide range of milestones and carried out several projects, initiatives and investments to contribute to a healthier planet. Now we are continuing this journey with our Healthy Planet Plan.

  • Set up of BENEO´s sustainability organization
  • Start of Partnership with Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Puratos in joint Climate Farming Project in Belgium with 15 pilot farm
  • Set up of BENEO´s sustainability organization
  • Start of Partnership with Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Puratos in joint Climate Farming Project in Belgium with 15 pilot farm
  • Set up of BENEO´s sustainability organization
  • Start of Partnership with Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Puratos in joint Climate Farming Project in Belgium with 15 pilot farm
  • Set up of BENEO´s sustainability organization
  • Start of Partnership with Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Puratos in joint Climate Farming Project in Belgium with 15 pilot farm
BENEO 2024
  1. Production sites are SMETA certified
  2. Start of Partnership with Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Puratos in joint Climate Farming Project in Belgium with 15 pilot farms
  3. Start of construction of new pulse-processing plant in Offstein Germany, running on green renewable electricity purchased
  4. First chicory root campaign in Pemuco without using fossil fuel for heat and electricity in the production process
  5. BENEO’s sites in Belgium, Germany and Italy purchase 100% of their electricity from renewable sources
BENEO 2023
  1. Production sites are SMETA certified
  2. Start of Partnership with Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Puratos in joint Climate Farming Project in Belgium with 15 pilot farms
  3. Start of construction of new pulse-processing plant in Offstein Germany, running on green renewable electricity purchased
  4. First chicory root campaign in Pemuco without using fossil fuel for heat and electricity in the production process
  5. BENEO’s sites in Belgium, Germany and Italy purchase 100% of their electricity from renewable sources
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  1. Production sites are SMETA certified
  2. Start of Partnership with Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Puratos in joint Climate Farming Project in Belgium with 15 pilot farms
  3. Start of construction of new pulse-processing plant in Offstein Germany, running on green renewable electricity purchased
  4. First chicory root campaign in Pemuco without using fossil fuel for heat and electricity in the production process
  5. BENEO’s sites in Belgium, Germany and Italy purchase 100% of their electricity from renewable sources
2021 BENEO
  1. Investment into waterway transport to reduce CO2 emissions from rice transport in Belgium
  2. Investment in water recuperation in Wijgmaal
2020 BENEO
  1. Launch of climate farming project in Belgium
2019 BENEO
  1. ENERCO initiative to reduce the use of fossil fuels and energy consumtion
2018 BENEO
  1. Launch of a project in Oreye to promote biodiversity
  2. Pemuco social program “Orafti educa”
2015 BENEO
  1. Launch of biomasss boiler in Pemuco
  2. Social program “Orafti educa”
2014 BENEO
  1. Pemuco health and safety program
2010 BENEO
  1. Hercule energy saving plan
2009 BENEO
  1. Foundation of BENEO-Institute
2007 BENEO Foundation
  1. Foundation of BENEO
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Acquisition of Dutch company Meatless
2021 BENEO
2021 BENEO
Investment into waterway transport
2020 BENEO
2020 BENEO
Launch of climate farming project
2019 BENEO
2019 BENEO
ENERCO initiative
2018 BENEO
2018 BENEO
ENERCO initiative
2015 BENEO
2015 BENEO
Launch of biomass boiler
2014 BENEO
2014 BENEO
Pemuco health and safety program
2010 BENEO
2010 BENEO
Hercule energy saving plan
2009 BENEO
2009 BENEO
Foundation of BENEO-Institute
2007 BENEO Foundation
2007 BENEO Foundation
BENEO was founded in 2007
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Certifications 

  • Südzucker AG (Group) has been awarded a Silver medal as a recognition of their EcoVadis Rating in October 2023. 
  • The Science Based Targets initiative has validated that the corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target(s) submitted by Südzucker AG (Group) have been deemed to be in conformance with the SBTi Criteria and Recommendations (version 5). The SBTi’s Target Validation Team has classified the company’s scope 1 and 2 target ambition (i.e., reducing absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 50.4% by 2030 from a 2018 base year) and has determined that it is in line with a 1.5°C trajectory. As BENEO, a division of Südzucker Group, we contribute to achieving these targets. 
  • Südzucker AG (Group) has achieved a CDP score of B, in a range of A to D, which is higher than the food & beverage processing sector average of C. 
  • BENEO’s five sites in Belgium, Chile, Germany and Italy have passed the SMETA 4 Pillar Audit on Labor Standards, Health & Safety, Environmental Assessment and Business Ethics. SMETA stands for Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit. 
  • The raw materials that BENEO processes are sourced according to different standards and certifications. These depend on the type of raw material. Certifications and standards for sustainable sourcing at BENEO include ISCC EU, REDcert-EU, 2BSvs, Vegaplan, Austrian Agricultural Certification Scheme (AACS) and FSA (Farm Sustainability Assessment). 

Sustainability news

Major ingredient players unite to support sustainable farming
Major ingredient players unite to support sustainable farming

Raffinerie Tirlemontoise, BENEO and Puratos have joined forces to launch a Climate Farming Project. It supports Belgian farmers in implementing more sustainable farming practices and promotes regenerative agricultural principles.
Sustainable farming @BENEO

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BENEO reduces CO2 emissions at Wijgmaal plant
BENEO reduces CO2 emissions at Wijgmaal plant

BENEO reduces its CO2 emissions by installing a large-scale industrial heat pump that will enable the company to recover energy from waste water at its Belgian rice ingredients plant.
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BENEO provides local rice farmers in Laos with farm machinery
BENEO provides local rice farmers in Laos with farm machinery

BENEO’s rice ingredients production site in Wijgmaal, Belgium, has changed the long-term working life of more than a hundred small-scale farmers in Laos, thanks to the provision of harvesting and threshing machinery.

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More chicory root fibre capacity, less specific energy consumption
More chicory root fibre capacity, less specific energy consumption

BENEO, one of the leading manufacturers of functional ingredients, is demonstrating how supply security and sustainability can go hand in hand.
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BENEO Acquires Meatless B.V. to Expand its Portfolio of Plant-based Solutions
BENEO Acquires Meatless B.V. to Expand its Portfolio of Plant-based Solutions

BENEO has announced the acquisition of Dutch company, Meatless B.V., ensuring it becomes a major player in the field of plant-based texturising solutions for meat and fish alternatives.
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