Two people are holding and examining a sugar beet in a field

The circular economy in sugar production

Green economy?
It’s how we roll!

Sustainability Climate and the environment Circular economy

We make sugar beets disappear completely. And from them we conjure not only sugar, but also stockfeed, bioenergy, and fertiliser for new beets. Magic? We call it an efficient circular economy.

Everything revolves around sustainability

We don't produce any waste: we utilise 100 per cent of the sugar beet. One of the beet's main components, namely water, is too valuable for us not to use. That's why we naturally think in terms of cycles here.

Beet sugar

our end product

Sugar beet pulp

is transformed into bioenergy

The sugar beet washing process at a sugar factory

Water from the beets

utilised in processing in the factory

Pressed or dry pulp

used as stockfeed

Two glass vessels, a flask and a shallow container, filled with a dark liquid against a neutral background

Molasses

serves as stockfeed and as raw material for the fermentation industry

Close-up of hands examining a green leaf from a sugar beet plant in a field

Sugar beet leaves

return to the fields as fertiliser

Sustainability in all areas

Sustainable, regional sugar beet farming

Two people are sitting at a table with lots of food on it

Sustainable nutrition

A worker wearing protective clothing inspecting equipment in an industrial hall among pipes and machinery.

People at the heart