Bühler Networking Days focus on accelerating positive impact on environment
Bühler has brought together 1,000 decision makers from the food, feed, and mobility sectors at its Networking Days in Uzwil on June 27-28 to “accelerate impact together.”
At the centre of the many keynotes, panels, and technology demonstrations is the question: How can we enable 10 billion people (by 2050) to live a good life within the boundaries of our planet?
The event focuses on leadership, technology, education, inspiration, and action across international industry boundaries. It highlights examples of companies that provide tangible impact on mitigating climate change, eradicating poverty, creating employment, protecting and restoring nature, and improving food security.
“Global industry has excellent examples of companies that are highly responsible, applying innovative technologies at the heart of their transformation, and through this, becoming economically healthier and addressing sustainability at the same time,” said Bühler CEO Stefan Scheiber. “In fact, despite all the challenges we are facing – from climate change to food and energy insecurity to supply chain issues and social disruptions through to wars – I am convinced we can turn things around. Innovative technologies offer many business opportunities when they also address sustainability issues. We must not shy away from seizing these opportunities.”
During the event, customers and partners along with Bühler will demonstrate that the rate of innovation is accelerating.
Highlighted are solutions from global companies, entrepreneurs, start-ups, academia, and NGOs.
Tangible examples of companies that balance nature, humanity, and economy in their decisions are shared at the Networking Days. Among them: a coffee company from Norway, which reduces CO2e emissions by 85% in its new facility; an entrepreneur in Angola, who has built a gigantic industrial food complex as a huge first step towards providing self-sufficient food security across the country; a battery manufacturer in the UK who is building Europe’s first Gigaplant with new mixing processes, reducing waste in the production process by 80%; and a miller in India who is making tortillas in a plant that reduces water consumption by 84% and eliminates wastewater.
Bühler established the Networking Days in 2016 to bring together and nurture its growing global ecosystem of partners.
“We need massive collaboration among industry, start-ups, academia, educators, politics, NGOs and the public to manage and limit the effects of climate change, loss of biodiversity, and eliminate poverty,” said Bühler CTO Ian Roberts.
At the event, Bühler will celebrate and announce multiple partnerships that will facilitate the transition towards more efficient food and feed production and accelerate the transformation towards sustainable mobility.
Bühler will also showcase services, technologies, and solutions that can optimise existing assets, provide a pathway to CO2e reduction in new plants, and support the development of new, more sustainable diets and mobility solutions. “Our biggest impact comes from supporting our customers in reducing their energy consumption, waste generation, and water usage and at the same time ensure productivity and yield. We have clear targets on these topics. By expanding our collaborative ecosystem, we can accelerate meaningful and lasting impact in the food, feed, and mobility industries,” said Stefan Scheiber.
