Nordzucker to use beet residue biomethane at two Danish factories from 2025

In Denmark, by signing cooperation agreements with Nature Energy, Nordzucker is setting a major milestone on the road to producing CO₂-neutral by 2050. Nordzucker supplies Danish beet residues to Nature Energy who produces biomethane for sugar production. From 2025 on, Nordzucker will use it for decarbonization of the sugar production in the two Danish factories. It is planned to reduce the CO₂ emission in these plants stepwise up to 37,000 tons until 2030.

The agreement concerns Nordzucker’s two Danish factories in Lolland-Falster in the southeastern part of Denmark operated by Nordzucker’s Danish subsidiary Nordic Sugar.

Nordzucker supplies residual beet pulp to Nature Energy’s biomethane plant on Lolland. The goal is that Nordzucker uses the biomethane for decarbonisation of sugar production and to reduce the CO₂ emission in the two Danish sugar factories stepwise up to 37,000 tons by 2030. The withdrawal from fuel oil and coal and the transition to natural gas and biomethane has been made possible by the new gas pipeline established by the Danish government in Lolland-Falster that was opened in September 2024.