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SustainabilityDe Heus’ commitment to sustainable aquaculture: Insights from VIETFISH 2024
At VIETFISH 2024, De Heus was proud to reflect on its progress in the aquaculture sector and outline the steps it continues to take towards building a sustainable future. Representing De Heus Asia and Vietnam, Sustainability Manager Thuy Nguyen (Emily) highlighted the company’s commitment to responsible aquaculture practices, emphasizing the importance of long-term collaboration with farmers, industry stakeholders, and local communities.
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SustainabilityCare for quality and food safety
At De Heus, we will always do our utmost to guarantee quality and food safety. Naturally, we are GMP certified.
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SustainabilityEffectively reducing consumption
We always remain critical regarding our production and logistics processes. Whenever we spot an opportunity to consistently reduce our energy consumption, we will seize it. This is demonstrated by the following concrete examples (the Netherlands):
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SustainabilityStimulate the efficiency of phosphates and minerals
In Europe dairy farmers are limited in their business management by the phosphate regulations introduced on 2 July 2015. If they want to grow without purchasing extra land or extra phosphate rights, they simply have to produce more milk per kilogramme of phosphate. This requires a careful strategy, which may vary from one company to the next.
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SustainabilitySharing knowledge and insights
To ensure that our specialists around the world would be able to keep themselves up-to-date regarding the latest developments, we founded the Feed Academy in 2015. It is a unique initiative that allows us to combine online learning with practical training courses on livestock farms. All knowledge and new insights thus acquired by our own professionals, they will happily share with livestock farmers in the region where they operate. In addition, we help them improve their professional skills in other ways as well. For example, we organise seminars and training courses for our customers, concerning the application of animal feed, livestock farming, and stable management.
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SustainabilityHow the global HR listening survey will help De Heus develop as a learning organisation and drive our success
Earlier this year, De Heus conducted its second global HR listening survey. About 10,000 colleagues were asked questions, covering a number of areas, about their experience of working at De Heus and how engaged they feel with the company. Wichard Bieze, Group Director Human Resources, tells us about the results and how they will help us build a future-oriented, learning organisation as we grow and develop.
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SustainabilityDemonstrably raising the logistic efficiency
In everything we think and do, we are demonstrating our awareness of the necessity to handle energy more efficiently. By continuing to invest in new ideas and systems, we succeed in structurally reducing our energy needs. Thereby reducing our environmental footprint even further. We do this in a number of ways, including the following (based on examples in the Netherlands).
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SustainabilityInternational professionalisation of local livestock farms
As an internationally oriented animal feed supplier, we consider it our duty to promote professionalisation of local livestock farming. And we do not limit ourselves to the optimisation of efficient conversion of raw materials into animal proteins, we also make use of local raw materials, and help to improve both the quality and the food safety of the produced food products
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SustainabilityDe Heus opens three brand new factories in Uganda, India and Kenya
In a significant and unprecedented milestone, three new De Heus feed mills are commencing operations in Uganda, India and Kenya — all within a period of just three months. By providing safe, high-quality feed, these facilities will help local farmers improve their business performance and contribute to sustainable food supplies in these countries. This remarkable achievement demonstrates De Heus’ capacity to rapidly scale its impact across multiple geographies, reinforcing its long-term vision for responsible food production.
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SustainabilityHow Asia and Brazil can bring out the best in each other
Reflecting on key sustainability issues and developments in the regions where they operate with Rinus Donkers (Brazil) and Gabor Fluit (Asia).
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