Dairy processes consume energy in the form of steam and electricity. The latter is mainly required in process equipment use and cooling.
Large amounts of thermal energy are required in drying powder products, the heat treatment of some products, for cleaning, and in heating buildings. The boiler rooms at Valio plants are maintained by subcontractors.
Energy production results in emissions into air. The quality and quantity of emissions depends on the fuel used in that energy production.
Valio’s Lapinlahti and Seinäjoki boiler plants are included in the emissions trading system under the Kyoto Protocol.
Valio’s most significant environmental investment in 2010 was to add a Fines Recovery System to the other powder drier at the Seinäjoki plant.
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