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Sustainability

Responsibility for the future

SUSTAINABILITY

Our company was founded in 1967 to process apples that were too small, too big or not colourful enough. Throughout the whole production process of our fruits and apples, we implement environmental sustainability in different dimensions: for us, it comprises the three pillars of social, ecological and economic sustainability.

 

The three pillars of sustainability are embedded in our corporate strategy.

Strategically, we work on 6 core topics

Ecological sustainability

  • Water and wastewater
  • Energy and climate protection

Economic sustainability

  • Regional value creation
  • Innovation, research & development

Social sustainability

  • Health and occupational safety
  • Healthy products

6,000

Fruit growing families from the region

250

Qualified

employees

20%

Proportion of women in the workforce

960

mwh electricity from photovoltaics

WATER

Water is an important resource for us. We use water sparingly and reuse it several times.

ENERGY AND CLIMATE PROTECTION

We are aware of our responsibility: Energy-efficient plants make a significant contribution to saving energy and reducing our CO2 emissions.

HEALTH AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY

The health and safety of our employees is of great importance to us. We focus primarily on training, further education and raising awareness.

HEALTHY PRODUCTS

Our apple growers' workshop is nature itself - and using natural products, we produce the best juices and purees that are healthy, safe and natural.

REGIONAL VALUE CREATION

Our valuable raw material comes mainly from around 6,000 fruit-growing families in South Tyrol. As a cooperative, we want to pay our members, the south Tyrolean fruit cooperatives, attractive payout prices.

INNOVATION, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Innovation, research & development is a common theme for all our corporate activities - also in the area of sustainability.

Our contribution to achieving the SDGs

The 17 (Sustainable Development Goals / SDGs) with their 169 sub-goals are the core of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda. They aim at sustainable development on an economic, social and ecological level - worldwide.

Our implemented and planned measures contribute to the 17 SDGs - whereby we prioritise seven SDGs:
 

DOCUMENTS

EPD puree

EPD juice

Code of Ethics

Sustainability report 2022-2024* (archived document, the report reflects the situation at the time of its publication.)

Code of Conduct

Environmental policy

Quality and food safety policy

Health and safety policy

[Translate to English:] ©Südtiroler Apfelkonsortium
[Translate to English:] ©Südtiroler Apfelkonsortium
[Translate to English:] ©Südtiroler Apfelkonsortium

Biodiversity

Sustainability in the supply chain

Around 6000 producers - mostly small family farms - supply our members, the fruit cooperatives and producer organisations in South Tyrol. Through the cooperative structure, we are closely connected with each other. Various management systems, certifications and recognitions cover the entire value chain, from cultivation and harvesting through storage, sorting and packaging to loading and distribution. These include, among others, GLOBALG.A.P. IFA, the standard for Good Agricultural Practices, and the GLOBALG.A.P. GRASP Add-on, which evaluates social practices and workers’ conditions of employment.

Bees

Sustainability in the supply chain

Around 6000 producers - mostly small family farms - supply our members, the fruit cooperatives and producer organisations in South Tyrol and Trentino. Through the cooperative structure, we are closely connected with each other. That is why sustainability along the entire supply chain is particularly important to us.

MEHR ERFAHREN
Sustainability
Bee meadow on the Sonnenberg in Kortsch

The grand opening of the bee meadow on the Sonnenberg in Kortsch on May 28, 2024, marked another strong commitment by VOG Products to sustainability.

MEHR ERFAHREN
Sustainability
“Organic apple juice is no longer a niche”

South Tyrol has been the largest organic apple supplier in Europe for many years. That is why the quantities delivered to the fruit processor VOG Products have more than tripled in three years.

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