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Energy consumption
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AAK is a processing company with impact on the environment
that has to be managed and minimized. There
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our improvement work. AAK has different plants that
differ in size, capacity, types of processes used and
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each site but the focus on continuous progress in line
with the AAK Environmental Policy ambitions and key
indicators is the same at all our sites.
During 2019 we have continued to improve the
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More frequent extreme weather and external hazards
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of highest importance. However, according to the 2019
Global Risk Report published by the World Economic
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likely and impactful global risk over the next ten years.
Going forward, we will not only see system transfor-
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also initiatives built on external hazards such as climate
change.
Our production site in Karlshamn, Sweden experienced
a really hot summer in 2018 which increased
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on the ability to use sea water for cooling purposes.
Instead of sea water, municipal water had to be used
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process changes going forward.
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integration into management and environmental plans,
it will take some time to get new sites on track with the
AAK standard. However, we can see good progress
already and with more best practice sharing, benchmarking,
scalable solutions and engagement on the
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forward.
in order to avoid production stop. During 2019, projects
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reduce sea water consumption by 50 percent. Extensive
research was completed and solutions which also aim
to reduce the overall energy consumed by the watercooling
station are planned to be implemented in 2020.
This is one example of an initiative based on external
hazards.
In order to mitigate the impact of extreme weather on
our production facilities, AAK has initiated a third-party
climate change risk assessment to be completed at all
production sites by the end of 2020. This will include a
full water-related risk assessment, which you can read
more about on page 47.
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Water consumption
Per unit processed material
-2.3%
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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