We take responsibility every day

CULTIVATED RESPONSIBLY

Back in 1997, we decided to invest heavily in organic production. Today, we are the largest processor of organic cereal grains in Finland, and about a third of our products are organic. Although intensive farming cannot be completely abandoned without endangering secure food production, we believe and hope that organic farming will continue to increase in the future.

Soil deterioration and pollinator decline pose significant threats to food production and therefore agriculture needs to develop methods to halt this development. In 2021, we launched an environment and sustainable farming programme together with our contract farmers.

MANUFACTURED WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY

Since 2010, Helsinki Mills’ production facilities have been using renewable energy produced by hydropower. Since 2013, Vaasa mill’s own biopower plant has been producing the heat energy needed for the production plant from the oat husk waste generated in the production process.

Hardly any water is used in the milling process. We began calculating our own emissions (Scope 1 and 2) in 2020 and have offset the emissions from our operations annually ever since.

All our packaging is made from recyclable materials and consumer packaging has clear instructions on how to recycle them. We have replaced shrink plastic packaging used for bulk packaging with cardboard, and we are committed to further reducing our use of plastic. We use FSC-certified cardboard in our consumer packaging. 

WORKING TOGETHER

As a fourth-generation family business, it is important for us to think long term and to create sustainable good around us. Continuity, cooperation, and responsibility are important values in our company.

In total, we employ around 100 people at our production plants in Järvenpää, Närpiö and Vaasa. Skilled staff are the cornerstone of our 90-year-old family business. We are lucky to have professional, dedicated, and nice colleagues that help us to create and sell quality food!