Fazer is building a bio-heating facility, which utilises the side streams from oats, in Lahti, Finland
Fazer has agreed with Lahti Energia Oy to have a bio-heating facility built on Fazer’s factory area in Lahti. The heating facility will produce bioenergy to be utilised by the mill, bakery and rye crisp production lines as well as the new Xylitol production facility, which will be ready in autumn 2020. The fuel for the new heating facility will be derived from the side streams of the production in the factory area, mainly from the oat hull mass which will be left over following the xylitol production process. In March 2019 Fazer stated that it will invest 40 million euros in Lahti in a