Finnish spirits major Altia Oyj has announced that it aims to make its production carbon-neutral by 2025. Rather than using compensation as a means to reduce its emissions; rather, the company’s steps towards carbon neutrality are based on the development of its own production plants, most importantly the Koskenkorva distillery’s bioenergy power plant, and shifting to renewable energy sources.
Altia aims to make its production carbon-neutral by 2025. Altia has published a Sustainability Roadmap extending to 2030, built around a core of the circular economy and carbon-neutral production.
Altia’s production at the Koskenkorva distillery is based on an award-winning bio- and circular economy, built on a long-term basis. This work is continued in Altia’s new Sustainability Roadmap, which extends to 2030.
Sustainability is a strategic priority and a key success factor for Altia. The basis of our products and export marketing is the barley processed at the Koskenkorva plant with the assistance of the circular economy and the pure, protected groundwater at Rajamäki. We have already been able to reduce our CO2 emissions by more than half from the level in 2014, and we’re now aiming for a zero level, said Pekka Tennilä, Altia’s CEO.
The roadmap’s key goal is Altia’s commitment to carbon-neutral production by 2025. The goal covers both Altia’s direct fossil emissions and those generated by purchased energy.
Our new Sustainability Roadmap sets ambitious numerical goals for our sustainability work until 2030. The roadmap is based on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and built on further developing our own operations rather than emission compensation measures, said Petra Gräsbeck, Communications Director of Altia.
The new roadmap is divided into four focal areas of sustainability:
- Production at the Koskenkorva distillery to be carbon neutral by 2025
- Packaging used to be fully recyclable by 2025
- 10 percent of the products offered to be low-alcohol or non-alcoholic by 2030
- Zero absences attributable to occupational accidents by 2030
