ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2024 43 “Not only must we carefully measure and reduce our own environmental footprint, but we must also develop market-leading solutions to help our customers meet their climate targets too if we are to thrive as a cutting-edge animal nutrition business worldwide. One such sustainable feed additive solution represents a new way to mitigate the risk of acidosis in dairy cattle.” Volac is a family-owned business that has produced high performance animal nutrition products for over 40 years. Passionate about ruminant nutrition, we are excited by the opportunity to use our technological know-how and operational solutions to help the animal feed industry and its farmer customers lighten their carbon footprint. Today the business focus is firmly on products and services for the feed fats, forage additives and feed additive market sectors with an unwavering commitment to developing products that support sustainable farming. Feed is a key input for all farms, and we now provide feed additive solutions that support livestock efficiency at many critical stages of animal production. These solutions also help mitigate the emissions associated with farm outputs. As we all focus on our own respective sustainability journeys to Net Zero, Volac takes its own environmental impact responsibility extremely seriously (see latest ESG report)1. The Volac International ESG goal is to achieve Net Zero by 2045. To do this we are focusing on three main strategic pillars: Sustainable Farming, Net Zero manufacturing and stakeholder alignment. Under the umbrella of sustainable farming, we are focusing on ruminant efficiency, carbon footprint reduction and nutrient utilisation and preservation through a number of internal and external trials and product developments. Volac environmental targets (see supporting graph): • Full carbon footprinting of Volac products by 2025 • 100% recyclable packaging on Volac branded products by 2030 • Net Zero for Scopes 1 and 2 by 2030 • Reducing Scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2045 In 2023 we completed carbon footprint analyses for the rumen protected fat product Megalac and forage preservative Ecosyl. Also, through changes to refrigerant used at our manufacturing site at Port Talbot, from R134a to CO2, we have reduced the 100-year global warming potential of these systems from1430 to 1. But not only must we carefully measure and reduce our own environmental footprint, we must also develop market-leading solutions to help our customers UNLOCKING RUMINANT POTENTIAL WITH VOLAC Sarah Banks Head of Sustainability and Marketing Volac International Ltd
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