Fazer is exploring new opportunities within recycling

The demand for pure and sustainable elements is rising throughout varied industries, and Fazer has entry to many potential uncooked supplies. Over the previous years, Fazer has invested closely in creating plant-based merchandise and pioneering varied sustainable options based mostly on Scandinavian oats. Along with meals improvements, Fazer is pursuing alternatives in new areas of the corporate, comparable to private care.

To speed up innovation, Fazer has launched a three-year analysis and growth program referred to as Fazer Upcycled. With this program, Fazer takes a proactive management place in creating sustainable elements for the meals business on a recycled side-stream foundation. The concept is to experiment and develop fully new prototypes of various options which may then be developed into sustainable shopper merchandise. One other vital aim is to encourage entry into non-food markets, comparable to private care, in addition to to advertise internationalization and export efforts particularly in B2B useful parts.

In March 2023, Enterprise Finland – a state group for financing innovation, commerce, journey and funding promotion – awarded funding to the Fazer Upcycled programme.

“Enterprise Finland’s funding for our Fazer Upcycled program is crucial, and we tremendously recognize their assist. The concrete aim of this program is to develop many new recycled plant-based elements that can be utilized in industries starting from meals and vitamin to non-public care and different non-food functions, says Jussi Luponen, Vice President of Fazer Group R&D.

There are various similarities between the methods of Fazer and Enterprise Finland. Sustainability performs an vital position in our operations, and Fazer goals to cut back meals loss and the environmental affect of its manufacturing and in the complete worth chain. We see the Fazer Upcycled program as a possible and essential initiative in working in direction of these objectives. With our funding, we need to assist Fazer in its efforts, and Finland in changing into a superpower for sustainable growth,” says Senior Marketing consultant Alexei Lipanin of Enterprise Finland.

Fazer Foodtech combines sustainable elements with know-how

The Fazer Foodtech enterprise unit was created to reply a number of the well being and local weather challenges of the fashionable world. On this enterprise unit, botanical uncooked supplies are moved via innovation and utility of newest applied sciences in sustainable elements. Partially, Fazer makes use of its personal facet currents and creates new merchandise and options via recycling.

“We’re continuously creating new options that permit us to enhance our materials effectivity and add worth to untapped manufacturing streams or facet streams – that is what we name recycling,” says Luponen.

Fazer Xylitol is a good instance of round economic system and recycling. Fazer Xylitol is produced from oat husks – a facet stream from our oat mill – at our state-of-the-art xylitol manufacturing unit in Lahti, Finland. Fazer Xylitol is a pure sweetener and different to sugar, but it surely additionally gives a number of alternatives. Others are for product growth, for instance within the discipline of private care and the pharmaceutical business,” provides Luponen.

Fazer’s sustainability work is split into 4 principal focus areas: local weather and cycle, sustainable merchandise and improvements, sustainable sourcing, and folks and well-being. Innovation to create new sustainable meals options via meals know-how and to cut back meals loss and waste are built-in into these ambitions that information Fazer’s enterprise.