Increasingly More of Fazer’s Bakery Products Go by Gasum’s Low-Emission Biogas

(Gasum) Gasum also uses Fazer’s food waste to produce biogas. -- Nordic energy company Gasum and the food and confectionary group Fazer have entered into an agreement on the use of biogas in the transport of Fazer’s bakery products. The inedible food waste generated at the bakeries is used to produce biogas in Gasum’s biogas plants.

This means that some of Fazer’s products travel across Finland using energy produced from Fazer’s own waste.

Fazer aims to cut its carbon footprint by at least 42% by 2030. Concrete ways to achieve this include using more renewable energy in production, making transport fossil-free and replacing natural gas with biogas.

Fazer currently uses two biogas trucks and biogas is used in 8% of transports. The aim is to steadily increase the number of biogas and e-vehicles so that at the end of the decade all of Fazer’s transports are emission free, either by using electricity or renewable gas.

“Cooperation with Gasum is very important to Fazer Bakery and working together allows us to achieve significant benefits for the environment. We have calculated that by using our own food waste, we can run all the bakeries' full trailer combination routes for a year on biofuel,” says Jarno Hämäläinen, VP, Supply Chain at Fazer Bakery Finland.

“This collaboration with Fazer Bakery is a great example of Gasum's role as a partner to our customers in reducing emissions. It’s great that we can help in many ways, both in putting waste to good use and in low-emission transport. Only by working together can we effectively reduce emissions from industry and logistics in the years ahead,” points out Ville Pesonen, Vice President, Industry and Traffic at Gasum.

Also e-methane in use going forward

Fazer Bakery has already cut its carbon footprint by 33% over the past four years. The aim is to reach a reduction of as much as 80% during the next few years.

Both biogas and e-methane are fully renewable fuels with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions on average 90% lower than using fossil fuel.

Gasum’s strategic goal is to bring seven terawatt hours (7 TWh) of renewable gas yearly to market by 2027. Achieving this goal would mean a total yearly carbon dioxide reduction of 1.8 million tons for Gasum’s customers.

The energy company Gasum is a Nordic gas sector and energy market expert. Gasum offers cleaner energy and energy market expert services for industry and for combined heat and power production as well as cleaner fuel solutions for road and maritime transport. The company helps its customers to reduce their own carbon footprint as well as that of their customers. Together with its partners, Gasum promotes development towards a carbon-neutral future on land and at sea.

Fazer is the bakery industry market leader in Finland. Fazer’s large bakeries are located in Vantaa, Lahti and Lappeenranta, Finland. The company has 139 in-store bakeries within grocery shops where artisanal bakers make bread by hand in the shop premises using Finnish flour. In Finland, Fazer Bakeries employs approximately 1,600 people. In the manufacturing of the bakery products, 94 per cent of the ingredients are Finnish.

Fazer, The Food Experience Company, enables people to enjoy the best moments of their day. Our mission, Food with a purpose, builds on our strong more than 130-year heritage, consumer first approach and innovations to create the sustainable food solutions of the future. With our dedicated team of approximately 5,000 professionals, we focus on fast-moving consumer goods and our direct-to-consumer business in Northern Europe, and beyond with exports to more than 40 countries. Fazer’s operations comply with its Code of Conduct that is based on the Group’s values and the UN Global Compact. In 2024, Fazer Group had net sales of 1.200 million euros. READ MORE