Press Releases 2021
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HKScan’s Rauma poultry unit preparing for strong growth in demand – the investment enabling productivity improvement implementedHKScan’s investment of some six million euros in the new slaughter process of Rauma’s poultry unit has been successfully implemented and put into operation. The investment enables the unit to significantly improve its raw material yield, productivity and operational reliability. With the investment, the company responds to the strong growth in demand for responsibly produced Kariniemen[®] poultry products.
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HKScan Corporation issues a EUR 90 million bond
HKScan Corporation, Press Release, 18 March 2021, 9.30 a.m. Finnish time
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HKScan the first in the world to calculate the water footprint of broiler production using the AWARE methodThe Baltic Sea region with abundant water resources has good conditions for sustainable meat production. AWARE is a new method to calculate the water footprint that takes into account the impact of a product on regional water scarcity. According to the new calculation method, the water footprint calculated on Kariniemen's pilot farm was 0.58 m3AWARE/ carcass weight kg.
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HKScan introduces wood-based plastic for part of its product packaging in FinlandLess fossil materials and closer to carbon neutrality
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Invitation to webcast: HKScan publishes its Financial Statements Bulletin 2020 on 4 February 2021
HKScan Corporation, press release 25 January 2021
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HKScan aiming at carbon-neutral food productionHKScan has set the goal of carbon neutrality of its own industrial production by the end of 2025 and carbon neutrality of the entire food chain from farms to consumers by the end of 2040 at the latest. Climate work is carried out in all our home market areas in Finland, Sweden, the Baltics and Denmark. Achieving the targets requires both a significant reduction of emissions and an increase in carbon sinks together with contract farmers and other partners. This work is led in line with the company's own Zero Carbon climate plan.