The sugar beet, full of possibilities

Sugar is a natural additive-free product that is extracted from sugar beet. Sugar beet contains much more than just sugar. We use all parts of the sugar beet in order to maximise its value. The beet pulp remaining at the end of the sugar production process, for example, is sold as animal feed, the soil attaching to the beet is used to build roads and dykes, molasses are used to make fermentation and yeast products, biomass digesters turn beet tops and tails into green gas that our vehicles drive on, and farmers use the digestate that remains after the gas is produced as a fertiliser on their fields.

Every part of the sugar beet is used, so there is no waste.

135 Applications

Sugar beets as a replacement for petroleum? It could very well be possible. The potential of the beet as a source for innovative and sustainable solutions in the food and non-food sectors is tremendously vast. We can already name 135 possible applications. That's precisely what we do in the Bright Beet Book, the world's first book made from beet paper. Browse through it and let yourself be amazed by the incredible potential of the beet.

Browse through the book

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