MAHOU SAN MIGUEL INVESTS 53 MILLION EUROS IN ITS FACTORIES AND SPRINGS TO BOOST SUSTAINABILITY

53 million. This is the investment that Mahou San Miguel will make in its factories and springs in order to boost their sustainability throughout this year. These resources are part of the sustainability investment project launched by the brewing company, which will focus on projects related to energy efficiency, packaging circularity and the modernization of all its facilities.

This year the company plans to spend more than 53.3 million euros on its eight breweries and four water springs located in Spain in order to ensure their future sustainability and competitiveness, which represents a 68.5% increase in investment compared to the same period last year.

“Our factories have the vocation of being a responsible citizen contributing to the economic and social progress of their surroundings,” said Nicolás Castrejón, Chief Operating Officer of Mahou San Miguel to which he added that “that is why, year after year, we reinforce our investment to provide our facilities with the level of efficiency, quality and competitiveness that allows us to continue generating employment and local wealth, with the minimum possible environmental impact”.

Over the last ten years, the company’s brewing centers and springs have recorded a significant improvement in their environmental indicators, with a 17.8% reduction in unit water consumption, a 26.2% reduction in energy consumption and a 28.7% reduction in CO2 emissions.

Another of Mahou San Miguel’s challenges is to make all its production centers carbon neutral by 2030. In addition, the company has just started up the largest photovoltaic installation in the brewing sector at its Alovera plant, with a total surface area of 55,000 square meters and an investment of close to 3 million euros. It will also invest heavily in the acquisition of new machines so that, in addition to rings, the shrink-wrapping of its product groupings will also be made of biodegradable cardboard. This is a further step in the company’s goal of promoting the circularity of all its packaging and materials and eliminating virgin plastic from them by 2030, ensuring that they are 100% recyclable and reusable.