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Read moreFacts & figures
...34 thousandtons History 1901 Founding of cooperative 2001 Receipt ofCourt Supplier designation 2002 Start of active encouragement of grazing dairy cows 2008 Start of sustainability program Caring Dairy 2012 Start of construction of new cheese factory 2014 Opening of...
Read moreCSR report
As a cooperative, you need to make a contribution to a better world. That is what CONO Kaasmakers understands by corporatesocial responsibility. CONO's CSR policy is linked to the Sustainable Development Goal of...
Read morePositive on the farmyard
...and supplemented with feedfrom the region such as brewer's grains. In this way, the footprint is slowly (and sustainably) going down. Furthermore, in reduction pilots we are investigatingthe possibilities of circular agriculture and ...
Read moreHonorary Guild of North Holland Cheese 2023
...the North Holland Cheese Honorary Guild Foundation was established in Alkmaar. The foundation aims topromote craftsmanship,quality and distinctionof North Holland cheese. Participants in the foundation...
Read moreProjects and developments
...On the farm, we are exploringthe possibilities of such things ascircular farming andcarbon farming, which is about sequestering CO2 in the soil. And as soon as there is a proven...
Read moreSjoerd Hiemstra of CONO Cheese Makers wins Golden Cheese Drill
...variety, stage of maturation, taste andquality. Whether he also tasted a CONO cheese during the inspection? "Absolutely," says Hiemstra. Ijust recognize the taste of ourcheeses. I...
Read moreHonorary Guild of North Holland Cheese 2022
...Cheese founded. This foundation aims topromote the craftsmanship,quality and distinctionof North Holland cheese. Every year, CONO Kaasmakers, as part of the Honorary Guild of North Holland Cheese Foundation,...
Read morePositive in cheesemaking
...ourregion for obtaining heat sustainably. We have also installed solar panels. And as soon as there's a proven innovation for ourcheese factory that suits us, we'll hook up....
Read moreSustainable stories from our cheesemaking: water
...to use drinking water quality when making ourcheese. For the remaining water we need, forcleaning, for example, we use so-called process water. In the end, there goes...
Read morePositive in milk transport
...Reception) ofthe Netherlands. In addition to the electric RMO, Danmel Transport has had an RMO running on liquid natural gas (Lng) for two years, ultimately reducing CO2 emissions by 20%. Oursecond milk transporter...
Read moreSustainable stories with Wim Betten of CONO Kaasmakers
...and continuity for ourdairy farmers. Cow in the Pasture thus remains a spearhead. The program includes 18 indicators, many of which affect ourclimate score. Ourdairy farmers ...
Read moreSustainable water treatment: 12% reduction
...purifiedby itself. So we can discharge at the right time. Untreated, but asclean as possible. And that in turn saves on the assessment for the water board tax," says Roeland."Climate ambition CONO...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Berto Klaver
...fitted so that the pump automatically selects a lower (and thus energy-efficient)setting when only a few cows are being milked or none at all. Thanks to a digital weather station, the...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Sandra Oudshoorn
...got. "Of course we keep close track of everything," says Sandra. For the baseline measurement, we hired an independentsoil biologist toexplain the datafrom the analysis, and another...
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