Nutreco-wide

• Nutreco made the strategic choice to embed sustainability in its business model.
• The Nutreco Supervisory Board established an Innovation and Sustainability Committee.
• Nutreco established an international Sustainability Group to represent all Nutreco business sectors and Nutreco Corporate. The Sustainability Group was key in developing the Nutreco Sustainability Policy and will facilitate its implementation. Pages 16–21.
• Nutreco developed a sustainability policy, prepared for its implementation and set Nutreco sustainability targets. Pages 18–19.
• Nutreco organised the multi-stakeholder agribusiness conference Agri Vision 2009, where feeding the world in 2050 was a main topic of discussion. Pages 12–15.

• Better coordination and more efficient transport for feed raw materials and finished goods are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and waste. Pages 32, 33.
• Advances in understanding of nutrition make better use of a wider choice of feed raw materials and reduce environmental impact on the farm.
  Pages 28–31.
• The MicroBalance™ feed concept provides for effective fish feeds with far lower levels of fishmeal. Page 29.
• Nutreco cooperated in and provided information for the first Environmental Report of the European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation. Page 27.
• Packaging development provided more compact, lighter and fully-recyclable packs for poultry products. Resultant savings in storage and transport reduce environmental impacts.
• Nutreco actively participated in value-chain-wide initiatives to improve sustainability. Pages 28, 37.

Feed-to-food quality

 

• A key performance indicator (KPI) was agreed for each of the five Nutrace® standards in 2009. Page 39.
• In 2009 the process of harmonising the risk assessments of all raw materials and feed additives progressed and by the year end the database contained details on 140 products, representing over 90% of feed raw materials. Page 40.
• The Nutrace early warning and rapid alert system, introduced in 2008, developed during 2009 into an effective communications platform on feed-to-food quality and safety. Page 40.

 

• The Nutreco Health, Safety, Environment and Quality team audited and inspected Nutreco operating companies with the health and safety of employees as a top priority. Page 44.
• The Nutreco-wide standard software tool, known as P@CT (People and Career Tool), was implemented globally during the first months of 2009, in 29 countries. By 31 December 2009 there were around 2,500 employees with access to P@CT. Pages 45–46.
• The August edition of the Spanish financial magazine Actualidad Económica ranked Nutreco España at number ten in its annual survey of the best companies to work for. Page 47.
• Nutreco supports an integrated agriculture project to raise living standards in the delta region of Bangladesh. The project developed in 2009 and two Nutreco businesses are providing knowledge of animal nutrition, feed production and feed management. Page 49, together with further examples.