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January 2026

• Beet campaign 2025 successfully completed

December 2025

• Tailor-made agreement with Royal Cosun on sustainability

November 2025

• Global market prices continue to decline, Europe expects another beet area reduction
• Our Beet Cultivation: Once Again FSA 3.0 Gold
• Van Gilse Innovates with the Sugar Beet as Its Hero

September 2025

• Beet campaign launched: smaller acreage, higher yield

July 2025

• Discover the power of beet fibre

May 2025

• Discover the world of thick juice: an insight into our sugar production

January 2025

• Sugar Beet Campaign: Efficient Processing After a Challenging Growing Season

September 2024

• Sugar Beet Campaign starts after challenging growing season

February 2024

• This sugar campaign goes beyond sugar alone

September 2023

• Annual beet campaign started again

June 2023

• The use of sugar beet for bio-based materials and the effects on food security

May 2023

• What exactly is in those big tanks?

January 2023

• The Dutch beet campaign has ended

December 2022

• Fidesse®: a new functional ingredient for meat substitutes

November 2022

• Revisiting the past with the Beet Tour
• Optimal biodiversity in sugar beet growing

October 2022

• Highest FSA level once again for Dutch beet cultivation

September 2022

• Puttershoek solar park with 67,000 panels officially inaugurated
• The beet campaign has started

May 2022

• Timely construction of infrastructure leads to potential savings of 8.5 megatons of CO2 in Central and West Brabant region
• Sustainable bag based on sugar beet pulp wins at EUROSAC Grand Prix
• The thick juice campaign has begun

March 2022

• Sugar beet carbon as an alternative for fossil carbon
• New Scientific Opinion EFSA on the Tolerable Upper Intake Level for dietary sugars

February 2022

• Cosun Beet Company achieves EcoVadis platinum rating
• Subsidy for sustainable biorefinery from sugar beet pulp

January 2022

• Dutch beet campaign has been completed
• Last part of former sugar factory site in Puttershoek sold

November 2021

• Launch of the Bright Beet Book: more than 130 versatile sugar beet applications

October 2021

• Cosun Beet Company’s speciality factory runs on self-generated green energy
• Online launch of the Bright Beet Book on 25 November 2021

September 2021

• Dutch beet campaign has started
• Transport of 270,000 tonnes of beet more sustainable by ship

July 2021

• Van Gilse kilo granulated sugar bags made from sugar beet paper

June 2021

• Cosun Beet Company 100% owner of Limako trading company

May 2021

• Cosun Beet Company starts refining thick juice

April 2021

• Cosun Beet Company joins forces with Avantium
• Online talkshow 'Bright Beet Solutions'

February 2021

• Beet paper packaging for industrial customers

December 2020

• Lean & Green Star for transport using our own green gas
• Cosun Beet Company piloting “beet by barge” to reduce CO2 emissions

October 2020

• From sugar beet pulp to sustainable paper
• Appeals Tribunal decision: Commercial linking wrinkles to sugar was misleading

September 2020

• Later start to the Dutch beet campaign
• Beet Advisery System (BAS) nominated for Computable Award

July 2020

• EcoVadis awards Cosun Beet Company Platinum medal
• Announcement co-operation Cosun Beet Company with Achard International
• Suiker Unie going forward under the name Cosun Beet Company

June 2020

• Suiker Unie to present new strategy under a new name on 2 July

May 2020

• Suiker Unie refining thick juice
• Multiyear practical study of strip cropping: Nature Field

March 2020

• Coronavirus: health and safety first
• Cosun Solar Park Puttershoek: 20 megawatts of sustainable energy

February 2020

• Suiker Unie Roosendaal: Excellence Award for Consistent TPM

January 2020

• Beet sugar more sustainable than cane sugar
• Sustainable Industry Challenge 2020: Suiker Unie selects Bioextrax as winner with the best innovation

November 2019

• Beet growers were awarded the highest SAI sustainability level: FSA Gold
• Major international challenge for green solutions in the chemical and energy sectors

October 2019

• Suiker Unie to produce protein from plant leaves
• Suiker Unie wins 2019 FNLI award

September 2019

• Early but staggered start to the beet campaign
• Suiker Unie awarded EcoVadis gold rating for fifth year in succession

April 2019

• Furthering sustainability together with Green Circles

February 2019

• New bulk trucks running entirely on Suiker Unie’s own green gas

January 2019

• First consumer products launched with Betafib®

July 2018

• Unveiling of the world’s first completely circular car