Climate protection has been a headline issue for years and many DMK customers have set themselves ambitious targets. They report on their emissions every year and in order to do that, they need data from their suppliers such as DMK. For some customers, up to two thirds of all their emissions come from milk and meat suppliers, making it all the more important for them to receive emissions data from DMK every year.

To give customers this information, we needed to establish and provide the Product Carbon Footprint for goods as simply as possible – along with finding ways to reduce emissions internally. Our production program is so varied that it is difficult to calculate the data manually, as greenhouse gas emissions naturally depend on the product in question. But software solutions proved the way to find the data needed.

For every single one of our products, we know the recipe and how much energy is consumed to create it. We use special databases to calculate the emissions involved in making each particular product. One important part of that is the data that comes from the farms we work with, transmitting the carbon footprint through the agri climate check. That data allows us to figure out the carbon footprint of our raw milk.

Customized software solutions enable us to calculate and communicate the emissions generated for individual items as well as the total emissions involved in what customers buy from DMK. That helps us internally too as we can look closer at the ways we can cut greenhouse gas emissions.