Our Group is already very far ahead in decarbonization and energy savings and is committed to further reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 23.3% by 2030 compared to 2019. This ambitious trajectory of industrial and agricultural decarbonization has been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative. Cristal Union is also aiming for energy independence on its sites by 2050, while pursuing its energy consumption reduction policy.
And because water is a precious and limited resource, Cristal Union has set itself another essential mission: to preserve and manage this resource in the most virtuous way possible. The results speak for themselves. All of the Group’s sugar factories are already water self-sufficient: a first in France and Europe! The distilleries will follow suit by 2030.
To take this even further, Cristal Union will have ten biological water treatment units in place by 2035, five of which are already installed. Essential for water recycling and the decarbonization of our operations, these systems have been deployed at all of the Group’s sugar factories, as well as at the Arcis-sur-Aube distillery.
Alongside its cooperative members and employees, the Group makes every effort to ensure sugar-beet cultivation and sugar, alcohol, bioethanol and animal-feed production, bring together the highest quality control standards and the lowest environmental impact on the market!
For more information, please see our CSR report
