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Healthy Earth
Healthy potatoes come from healthy soil. It is crucial that we take good care of our planet. We work every day to produce safely and in an ever more sustainable manner. Together with the chain, we are building an entirely circular process from potato to product, whereby we minimise water and energy consumption and prevent (food) waste.
Healthy Earth
‘We have to do it together. And that is a great match with the cooperative spirit of
our parent company, Cosun.’
Jeroen Zwietering - Aviko
OUR PROJECT STORIES
Jeroen Zwietering, process engineer energy at Aviko Rixona: ‘The e-boiler is a wonderful way of shaping our energy transition.’
Guido van der Steen, operational director at Aviko Rixona: ‘We want to be leading in our industry.’
Frank Scholten, transport manager at Aviko: ‘We are proceeding with electrification. That is certain.’
Marlies Meijer, environmental and sustainability advisor at Aviko: ‘Aviko is becoming CO2-neutral. You do not do that in one go, but in small steps.’
Valerie Beerens and Gerwin Beukhof, sustainability coordinators at Aviko Rixona and Aviko, on sustainability: ‘Together we take a close look at the chain.’
TARGETS
CIRCULARITY
100%
recyclable packaging
2025
CIRCULARITY
50%
reduction food waste
2030
CIRCULARITY
No waste
2025
CLIMATE
45%
reduction CO₂
scopes 1 and 2
2030
CLIMATE
50%
reduction CO₂
scope 1
2030 - Aviko Rixona
CLIMATE
No scope 2 emissions
2025
CLIMATE
Scope 3 reduction
targets determined
2024
CLIMATE
Net zero
scopes 1, 2 and 3
2050
WATER
15%
reduction water consumption
WATER
30%
reduction water consumption
per tonne produced product 2025
- Aviko Rixona
Maximum value, minimum waste
Aviko is continuously searching for possibilities for what are known as waste flows. Residual product remains as part of the production of fries and other products. We use this residual product for other purposes. Our aim is to ‘extract maximum value’ from the potatoes and to half our food waste in 2030.
‘Misfits’
Products that are entirely in order in terms of quality but for some other reason did not reach the market now do have that opportunity. We started a process with a retailer to return such products to the market as food and thus prevent food waste.
Specials
We combat waste by taking a critical look at our processes and activities: we do not throw away good products whose packaging has been rejected, but we repackage them in new packaging. We also market successful trial productions as specials.
