Close the loop: Recycling and reusing water

Water is essential to malting, but is also a scarce resource 🌍

At Boortmalt, we’ve made water efficiency a key pillar of our sustainability strategy. Together with Pantarein Water, we implemented a Reverse Osmosis water reuse system at our Antwerp plant. This innovation enables us to reuse 500,000 m³ of potable water per year.

What does that mean concretely? 
💧 80% of the wastewater from our steeping process is treated to potable quality and reused. 
💧 50% less of our overall water intake is drawn from the city of Antwerp. 
💧 We lowered our heating costs thanks to the natural temperature of reused water.

🎯 By 2030, we have the ambition to reduce our water consumption to below 2 m³ per tonne.

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