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Puttershoek solar park with 67,000 panels officially inaugurated
More than 67,000 solar panels that generate as much
electricity as 8,200 households consume annually: that is exactly what the Puttershoek Solar Park in the municipality of Hoeksche Waard in South...
The beet campaign has started
Today marks the start of the beet campaign at the Cosun Beet Company factories. The campaign in the Netherlands is expected to last 19 weeks this year, which means that the factories in Dinteloord and...
Timely construction of infrastructure leads to potential savings of 8.5 megatons of CO2 in Central and West Brabant region
The business community in the Central and West Brabant region is ready to make a significant contribution in coming years to a more sustainable Dutch economy. Six companies have prepared plans for CO2...
Suiker Unie
aims to make
the most out of
sugar beets.
It develops, produces, and sells sugar and sugar specialities. Furthermore, all parts of the sugar beets are processed into products that can be used in food, biobased products, the generation of green energy, animal feed, and Betacal (lime fertilizer).
Sustainable bag based on sugar beet pulp wins at EUROSAC Grand Prix
A paper bag that is strong, food safe, recyclable, compostable and both offset and flexo printable. Due to a unique synergy in the value chain, five partners have created this sustainable and innovative...
The thick juice campaign has begun
Apart from the beet campaign, which starts in September and usually lasts until mid-January, the Cosun Beet Company sugar factories also carry out a second campaign: the thick juice campaign. This usually...
Sugar beet carbon as an alternative for fossil carbon
In the field of sustainability, the focus often seems to be on renewable energy and decarbonisation, but this is not an option for the chemical and material sector. As these are entirely based on the use...
New Scientific Opinion EFSA on the Tolerable Upper Intake Level for dietary sugars
Cosun Beet Company is very pleased with the publication of the EFSA Scientific Opinion on a Tolerable upper intake level (UL) for dietary sugars.The Agency could not set a science-based UL for dietary...