As a global leader in the supply of fish and shrimp feeds, Skretting contributes to the aquaculture industry’s sustainable progress through the provision of feeds that have been formulated from responsibly sourced raw materials. An equally important part of this commitment is to ensure that our own house is in order when it comes to the production of these feeds, and this responsibility drives our focus areas of reducing energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water use across our operations globally. Skretting production (Scope 1) contributes approximately 5% of the carbon footprint of feed.
A core objective in global operations is to support local operations as they build high levels of competence among the people operating our plants. Through this competence, and with high levels of participation in global projects, we fully expect to achieve our operational targets and be world leaders in fish and shrimp feed production. Skretting has always maintained strong collaborative global networks, working across many different disciplines. Local teams have faced many common challenges, and this has promoted a high level of sharing and listening at all levels.
Our footprint is always evolving, with new production facilities under construction, closures or plant extensions underway in most regions. We continually monitor and report four key environmental KPIs, the data quality of which is continuously improved by having a third party taking a critical look at our reporting process. Two of the largest global projects in 2020 were energy reduction and KPI measurement.
Our local teams have many projects focused on energy reduction. Successful projects are presented globally and, where appropriate, taken up by other plants so that they too can benefit from them. To-date, the largest energy saving gains have been made in the areas of steam boiler efficiency, dryer operation, and heat recovery solutions. Projects in these areas are having the largest impact on production kWh per tonne. Below is an example showing gas reduction in Skretting Spain over the last three years.
In addition, CO2 emissions have been radically reduced in some operations. Globally, Skretting last year achieved a reduction of CO2e of 7.5% from 2019 values. Some of these reductions were due to overall energy reductions, but the main driver of this decrease was the sourcing of greener energy.
Shown below are the results from those Skretting plants that made the largest contribution to the total reduction.
This is a trend that we expect to continue as better options become available in the market and new energy contracts are negotiated. A key target in the coming years is to continue the yearly reduction of 2% energy consumption per tonne, while in the longer-term, we will look to make a 30% reduction in our CO2 emissions by 2030 in Scopes 1 & 2 (from 2018 baseline data).
In 2020, Skretting launched a project to get 100% compliance to global production KPI reporting. Our goal is for our operations to have a standardised and documented way of working, with programmes put in place to facilitate continuous improvement. The first step is to ensure the accuracy of our data, and already we have been successful in getting all of our plants reporting these production KPIs in the same way every month. This data will now be used to further drive improvements to reduce waste and save energy.
At the same time, Skretting’s global and local teams will continue to work closely together on innovations and improvements that will help us achieve our production goals – a challenge that is large in scope but equally exciting.
