Neste helps Valtra save over 15 000 tons of greenhouse fuel emissions at its Suolahti manufacturing unit with the provision of 5 million liters of Neste MY Renewable Diesel.
Finnish Valtra, a globally working tractor producer belonging to AGCO Company, has reached a big milestone by having used altogether 5 million liters of Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ as a factory-fill gas in addition to in testing and in its manufacturing unit forklift vans at its Suolahti manufacturing unit in Finland. By changing fossil gas with Neste’s renewable diesel, Valtra has prevented over 15 000 tons of greenhouse fuel emissions from getting into the ambiance. The quantity is equal to the greenhouse fuel emissions ensuing from the usage of fossil gas in a Valtra T Sequence tractor repeatedly for 390,000 hours at 30 to 40% engine load, when all emissions over the life cycle of the gas are taken under consideration.*
Neste and Valtra have collaborated since 2017, when Valtra turned the primary tractor manufacturing unit on the earth to fill its new tractors with Neste MY Renewable Diesel that reduces greenhouse fuel emissions by as much as 75% or as much as 95%** over the gas’s life cycle when in comparison with fossil diesel.
Neste MY Renewable Diesel is a gas constituted of 100% renewable uncooked supplies, akin to used cooking oil and animal fats from meals trade waste. The brand new Valtra tractors, powered by Neste MY Renewable Diesel, are exported from Suolahti, Finland to over 75 international locations globally.
Mikko Lehikoinen, Managing Director, Valtra EME, mentioned:
At Valtra, we’re dedicated to sustainability, and amongst our initiatives, we work on emission discount, vitality consumption, waste administration and the environment friendly use of sources.
“With our determination to modify to Neste MY Renewable Diesel as the primary fill gas, we now have lowered our personal emissions and proven our prospects, tens of 1000’s of farmers globally, that their tractors can run on renewable diesel. Additionally older Valtra tractors run effectively on renewable diesel,”
Joni Pihlström, Vice President, Advertising & Providers, Neste, mentioned:
Neste’s goal is to assist its prospects cut back their greenhouse fuel emissions by at the least 20 million tons yearly by 2030.
“I’m happy with our long-standing partnership and Neste MY Renewable Diesel supporting Valtra’s emission discount targets, which additionally helps improve the attention of Neste MY Renewable Diesel as a lower-emission resolution amongst farmers. Just lately, we expanded our collaboration after we joined the Finnish Future Farm undertaking, a three-year EU-funded program going down on the bioeconomy campus in Saarijärvi, Finland. This system allows the use and growth of options that reduce greenhouse fuel emissions and enhance financial profitability of arable farming of grass and grain. When combating local weather change, each already current and new options are wanted,”
*) Calculation methodology complies with the EU Renewable Power Directive II (EU) 2018/2001
**) The GHG emission discount varies relying on the region-specific laws that gives the methodology for the calculations (e.g. EU RED II 2018/2001/EU for Europe and US California LCFS for the US), and the uncooked materials combine used to fabricate the product for every market.
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Neste helps Valtra save over 15 000 tons of greenhouse fuel emissions at its Suolahti manufacturing unit with the provision of 5 million liters of Neste MY Renewable Diesel. supply
