Proud to be at the forefront of of plant-based innovation and biodiversity protection! Ecotone announces €20 million investment to meet growing demand for plant-based beverages in the european market. “Ecotone is committed to developing agroecological practices that go beyond the organic specifications to promote more biodiversity, and to cultivate more than 35 plant species, thus stimulating cultivated biodiversity and the diversity of diets,” the company said in a statement. To carry out its mission of “Food for Biodiversity”, Ecotone relies on a vast network of more than 100 producers of 100 percent organic cultivation, grown without any pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, or synthetic fertilisers, throughout Italy.
An innovative co-generator, which recovers energy from the factory’s production processes, also supplies the site with 40 percent of its energy. The production site, which operates exclusively on renewable energies, has also been equipped with sustainable solutions, including the implementation of a system of total circularity of water, whereby industrial washing water undergoes biological treatment with activated sludge and is then reused in agricultural production processes. Allowing for more efficient palletising, the new installation also reduces the use of plastic by 15 percent and optimises transport with the elimination of 58 tons of CO 2. The aim is to make the Badia Polesine site a flagship of Industry 4.0, with the investment focus on automation, including the implementation of an internal pallet flow management system via laser-guided vehicles.Ī reorganisation of the factory’s production workshop also allows for increased automation – with 50 percent of its intralogistics requiring no human intervention, and a fully automated production flow between bottling and loading pallets into trucks.
The factory, which produces organic plant-based drinks for brands including Bjorg, Bonneterre and EcoCesta, now employs 163 people across its five production lines, and produces 120 million litres of plant-based drinks each year, 50 percent of which are sold in France.
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