NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE September 2025 97 At its flagship customer event, Networking Days 2025, held on June 23-24 in Uzwil, Switzerland, Bühler presented a comprehensive quantification of the environmental footprint of 15 value chains across the food, feed, and advanced materials industries, along with the corresponding Environmental Impact Services. This assessment offers a clear view of key impact hotspots and provides companies with actionable insights on where and how to improve operations while advancing sustainability goals. “Sustainability is often perceived as a burden or cost factor,” said Samuel Schaer, Head of Services & Sales at Bühler. “With this assessment and our Environmental Impact Services, we can clearly demonstrate how business objectives and sustainability are closely interlinked – with sustainability serving as a driver of long-term business success.” Early adopters have already proved this approach, according to the statement. Bühler has hosted its Networking Days every three years since 2016, bringing together industry leaders, partners, and experts to collaborate on solutions to the most pressing global challenges. At Networking Days 2022, Bühler made a clear commitment: “In 2025, we want to have solutions ready to multiply which reduce energy, waste, and water in the value chains of our customers by 50%.” Now, only three years later, this ambition is beginning to materialize. The scale of what is achievable is illustrated by Bühler’s comprehensive analysis of 15 value chains, spanning from raw materials to finished products – such as grain to pasta, or maize to pet food. Read more>> Bühler reveals environmental hotspots and solutions across value chains Photo: Courtesy of Bühler A groundbreaking field demonstration of the Methane Eradication Photochemical System (MEPS) successfully proved that dilute methane emissions from dairy barns can be effectively eliminated at commercial scale, Denmark-based Ambient Carbon unveiled. The field trial represents the first real-world validation of a scalable technology capable of eradicating methane emissions from livestock barn air. Methane has 84 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20-year period. Livestock emit approximately 30% of worldwide anthropogenic methane, with dairy cattle generating half of those emissions, highlighting the importance of the MEPS system in supporting the dairy industries journey to net zero. The large-scale field trial was conducted at the Hofmansgave Foundation farm in Denmark, where the MEPS unit, housed in a standard 40-foot shipping container, processed air samples from a 250cow open-sided dairy barn. This marks a significant scale-up from the previous laboratory prototype, demonstrating the technology’s viability for commercial deployment. Read more>> New trial validates methane eradication from dairy barns Photo: Ambient Carbon
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