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We harvest better together: sustainable rice on its way to Belgium

Belgian cookies made with Vietnamese rice? Yes, please! – and they are sustainable too. Thanks to a new partnership between BENEO-Remy and the Tan Binh cooperative, Belgian and Vietnamese partners are building a fair and sustainable rice supply chain.

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From field to oven: baking bread with less CO₂

The European industrial bakery industry launched the ‘Sustainable Wheat Initiative Europe’: a widely supported action plan to reduce the climate impact of wheat production. 

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From waste stream to praline: Vandenbulcke makes chocolate circular

Reinventing chocolate? Chocolatier Vandenbulcke does it with waste streams from cacao fruit. With Pulp ‘n Choc Fruity Mix they make a praline from the white pulp surrounding the cacao bean: the pulp normally left behind on the field. It gets a second life here as a fresh fruit filling.

Barry Callebaut harnesses wind power to reduce CO₂ emissions
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Barry Callebaut harnesses wind power to reduce CO₂ emissions

With the arrival of a new wind turbine at its production site in Halle, just south of Brussels, Barry Callebaut is taking another step toward a climate-neutral future. The turbine powers the production process and cuts the chocolate company’s annual CO₂ emissions by 1,200 tons.

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Limar accelerates the green transition: new high-tech chocolate factory is the largest in Belgium’s Campine region

In Turnhout, family-owned praline producer Limar has officially opened its brand-new chocolate factory, the largest of its kind in Belgium’s Campine region. With 12,000 m² of floor space, the new site combines industrial-scale production with energy-efficient features.

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Vondelmolen brings gingerbread to the Japanese market

Vondelmolen is putting Belgium on the Japanese map with its iconic gingerbread, or pain d’épices.

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Tiense Suikerraffinaderij introduces innovative industrial heat pump as a European first

Small country, great technology: Tiense Suikerraffinaderij is taking a new step in sustainable industrial innovation with the introduction of a unique industrial heat pump.