Sustainability & responsibility

The soya extraction meal and soya press cake resulting from oil production is generally used as animal feed in animal husbandry. Accordingly, there is no waste in the production of soybean oil and the product is fully recycled. Due to its enormous economic importance, the cultivation of transgenic soya, which has been made resistant to the use of herbicides, is now predominant, especially in the USA and Argentina. If one compares the area under cultivation of genetically modified material with the total area under cultivation of the plant, soya clearly occupies a leading position among all crops. Today, more than half of the world's soybean harvest is GMO soybean. However, no other agricultural crop can produce such a high yield of protein as soya. That is why the importance of soybeans for feeding mankind will continue to increase. The growing plants bind nitrogen and thus have positive effects on soils. This positive characteristic of the plant means that there is no need for artificial nitrogen fertilization on soybean fields.

Soya is traded in bulk product and therefore the differentiation between soybean GMO and GMO free soybean is important already at harvest. Harvest, transport, processing and storage must be clearly separated to avoid mixing. We have organized our quality controls and storage according to the principle of strict separation to ensure that these two products are always clearly and verifiably separated.