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Read moreFacts & figures
General Form of enterprise: dairy cooperative Location: Westbeemster Spot milk price (2021) €43.50 per 100 kg Number of cattle farmers 402 Number of employees 196 (FTE) Annual turnover (2021) €268 million Milk supply (2021) 406 million kilograms Cheese production (2021)...
Read moreCSR report
As a cooperative, you need to make a contribution to a better world. That is what CONO Kaasmakers understands by corporate social responsibility. CONO's CSR policy is linked to the Sustainable Development Goal of...
Read morePositive on the farmyard
On the farm We are always working to reduce our carbon emissions. Our dairy farmers have been working with the Caring Dairy program for years, using their craft to benefit...
Read moreHonorary Guild of North Holland Cheese 2023
CONO Kaasmakers congratulates Evert Fokker (Korver Kaas, Bodegraven) and Wim Betten (former director CONO Kaasmakers, Westbeemster) on joining the North Holland Cheese Guild of Honor! On August 25, 2023, Alderman...
Read moreProjects and developments
...View the projects in cheese making View the projects in ripening View the projects in packaging View the projects in cheese transportation Compensatewhere we cannot reduce...
Read moreSjoerd Hiemstra of CONO Cheese Makers wins Golden Cheese Drill
During the awards ceremony of the Dutch National Cheese Selection Competition (NNKC) on October 6, Sjoerd Hiemstra, process technologist at CONO Kaasmakers, was awarded the Golden Cheese Drill. There were 250 points to score. With...
Read moreHonorary Guild of North Holland Cheese 2022
CONO Kaasmakers congratulates Eduard Treur (Treur Kaas, Woerden), Peter Verweij (Kaashandel Remijn, Kerkdriel) on joining the North Holland Cheese Guild of Honor! On Friday, August 26, Mayor Anja Schouten intronized the...
Read moreSustainable stories from our cheesemaking: water
"We are a water factory" The climate is changing, sea levels are rising and groundwater levels are falling. So we must use water together in an economical way. In...
Read moreSustainable stories with Wim Betten of CONO Kaasmakers
...throughout the cheese chain we are working to reduce CO2 as much as possible. What cannot be solved further we will compensate. Then we will look at how we can reduce more CO2...
Read moreSustainable water treatment: 12% reduction
CONO Kaasmakers collaborates with Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier for sustainable water purification CONO Kaasmakers and Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier (HHNK) have found a sustainable solution for the wastewater released during the...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Berto Klaver
Berto Klaver from Zuidermeer does have a very human view of how he treats his cattle. "I check myself: if you have to work hard, you wear out sooner....
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Sandra Oudshoorn
Sandra Oudshoorn from Westbeemster really wanted to work on healthy soil. Because that is where the cows graze and the grass, corn and other feed grows. The better the soil...
Read morePositive in cheesemaking
In the cheese factory For making cheese, we use the latest and most economical equipment and are as efficient as possible in our use of heat,...
Read moreSustainable stories with farmer Dick Ubbels
Farmer Dick Ubbels chooses green management without sticks but with herbs on the grassland Cattle farmers love their cows and the outdoors. It is logical that they also have an eye for nature management....
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