Our green agenda
At KMC, sustainability means continuously improving how we produce and how our ingredients are used.
We work to harness the potential of the potatoes to develop solutions that create value for our owners and customers, while supporting a more responsible food system.
Topics of action
At KMC, sustainability priorities are business priorities.
Through a double materiality assessment, KMC gains a clear, data-driven picture of where the greatest value can be created – for owners, customers and the planet.
The assessment identifies the topics that matter most, including climate impact and energy performance, responsible potato cultivation and strong collaboration with farmers and factories.
This insight is the compass for KMC’s sustainability roadmap and investments, ensuring targeted initiatives, reliable supply, documented climate benefits and safer, more future-fit potato-based ingredients. Read more about KMC’s double materiality assessment in the Sustainability Report 2024/25, page 12–15.
Working with the potato
Potato cultivation is one of the most important focus areas and a key driver of KMC’s overall climate and environmental footprint.
KMC works closely with more than 800 Danish farmers – who are also the owners of the KMC Group – to optimise yields while reducing impact, for example by testing new cultivation methods, developing more disease-resistant potato varieties and aiming to cut the use of plant protection products by 50% by 2032.
Through data-driven advisory services, the TraceIT system and Farm Sustainability Assessment, KMC turns field insights into concrete action. This ownership-based collaboration strengthens supply security, supports more resilient potato crops and creates a steadily greener foundation.
Towards climate neutrality
KMC is working towards climate neutrality no later than 2050 by reducing both energy consumption and climate emissions across the KMC Group. The focus is on real, long-term reductions in Scope 1 and 2 – from optimising energy use in production to increasing the share of low-carbon and renewable energy and improving efficiency in every factory, without relying on certificates.
To document progress, KMC provides externally verified carbon footprints at product level for key ingredients. These life cycle assessments follow recognised international standards and are shared openly, enabling transparent climate accounting and closer collaboration across the value chain.
In this way, KMC combines concrete reductions in energy use and emissions with robust, product-level climate data, strengthening the climate profile of both KMC and the food systems built on KMC’s ingredients.
Our sustainability report
A more detailed overview of KMC’s priorities, data and progress can be found in the Sustainability Report 2024/25, which is available for download.
For questions about KMC’s sustainability work or to explore potential collaboration, KMC’s team is ready to discuss how potato-based solutions can support ambitious product and climate goals.
