Bühler Plans to Slash Environmental Footprint of Customer Value Chains Through Plant-Based Meat, Bio-Based Materials & Other Initiatives

Bühler is focused on reducing the environmental footprint of its customers' value chains, with a recent assessment revealing significant reduction potentials in key environmental dimensions. Through its Environmental Impact Services, the company aims to support companies in achieving these reductions, including energy, waste, and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. Bühler's industrial transformation is based on the pillars of switching to alternatives like plant-based meat, adopting efficient technologies, and optimizing existing installations with services, with a significant investment in R&D to facilitate this shift.

Several Bühler customers have already been successful in implementing sustainability measures, with companies like Planted using Bühler's technologies to produce plant-based meats with significantly lower CO₂e emissions compared to animal counterparts. Bühler emphasizes that sustainability is integral to long-term business success, highlighting the close relationship between business objectives and sustainability goals. The company aims to drive decarbonization and resource efficiency in industries such as food, feed, and mobility through its innovative solutions and services.