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Contributes to:
Water
Even though most AAK products do not contain water
when leaving the sites, vegetable oil processing
requires large amounts of water, mainly for cooling and
steam production.
Water consumption
Combined, the Group’s production sites use approximately
31,000,000 m³ of surface water. This water,
which is used for cooling, has no contact with products
or pollutants and is returned to the source without any
change in quality. The discharged water may, however,
be slightly warmer than when entering the Group’s
system.
Ground water and municipal water used in processing
totalled 3,000,000 m³ which is 9 percent more than in
2017 driven by the inclusion of four new sites and larger
processed volumes.
Water consumption per processed unit decreased
with 0.2 percent on the AAK scope 2016 production
sites. The improvement was small partly due to a
summer with warmer temperatures in Sweden resulting
in too high temperature of the the sea water that
couldn’t be used for cooling purposes. Municipal water
had to be taken into use so that production could keep
running.
The new baseline including the four new production
sites is 1 percent lower than in 2017.
Water discharge
Processing water discharge in 2018 increased by 2.2
percent. However, calculated per processed material
Water consumption
Per unit processed material
0.83 1.30
0.80 1.23
0.75 1.20
0,72 1,19
0.71 1.19
0.68 1.18
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
m3
1.60
1.20
0.80
0.40
0.00
Water discharge
Per unit processed material
New baseline
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
m3
0.90
0.80
0.70
0.60
New baseline
amounted to a 2 percent decrease for the AAK scope
2016 production sites. The new baseline including the
four new production sites is 4.5 percent lower than in
2017.
Discharged processing water from AAK sites is
treated at own or municipal water treatment sites and is
subject to strict control by local authorities.
AAK has several projects ongoing to keep consuming
less water in the future.
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