From now on, HKScan Latvia will only use natural gas-powered trucks for deliveries

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“Decision to use more environmentally friendly products”Scania The R 410 CNG car is another step for the company to achieve the group’s goal of ensuring carbon neutrality for its industrial production by the end of 2025 and carbon neutrality at all stages of the food production chain by the end of 2040, from animal husbandry to the final product. consumers, “explains Heino Lapins, Sales Director of HKScan Latvia.

According to the company’s calculations, the use of new cars will allow to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 tons annually.

The new trucks will only be used to deliver HKScan products. Each car can carry 66 pallets of products. At the insight – it is possible to place 864 packs of “Mārtiņš grildesiņu” or 576 packs of “Doktora extra” sausages on each pallet. Each car can carry about 19 tons of such products at a time.

In order to achieve carbon neutrality, HKScan Latvia already last year started using only renewable electricity.

HKScan Latvia was founded in 1922 and is part of the Finnish HKScan, which is one of the largest food production companies in the Nordic countries.

In 2020, the company’s net sales revenue reached almost 1.8 billion euros. HKScan Latvia’s turnover last year was almost 50 million euros, but profit after taxes was 614 thousand euros, “Lursoft“available data.

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