Sustainability
In 2024, TTH prioritized climate actions to meet our long-term Science Based Targets (SBTs), as well as customer demand for lower-carbon food and beverage solutions.
To help us achieve our near-term climate goals and long-term net-zero ambitions, we carried out an assessment of TTH’s total carbon footprint, including Scope 1, 2 & 3.1 emissions. We also developed a reduction pathway to address all impacts, taking into account business growth of 35–40% by 2030 compared to the 2021 baseline. In the coming years, we will focus on implementing this reduction path by continuing to invest in more sustainable practices and innovations.
We also reached an important sustainability milestone for EverSweet®, the first commercial product from Avansya, a 50/50 joint venture between dsm-firmenich and Cargill. A new life cycle assessment shows that, compared to sugar, EverSweet® stevia sweetener enables:
- 81% lower carbon footprint
- 96% less impact on land use
- 97% less water use
Combining the best-tasting stevia with impressive sustainability features, EverSweet® enables a significant reduction in sugars without sacrificing high-quality sweet taste. Earlier in 2024, EverSweet® stevia sweetener received a positive safety opinion from European and UK safety agencies.
Innovation
Developing new food and beverage solutions increasingly depends on the effective use of advanced digital technologies, machine learning and AI for fermentation, laboratory automation, and receptor technologies. In 2023, Taste and Ingredient Solutions launched joint research programs in sugar reduction and plant-based products. In 2024, we strengthened efforts to exploit cross-divisional innovation opportunities and expanded the scope of these programs to all TTH segments.
A good example of cross-divisional innovation is our new alcohol taste solutions, which provide a multi-sensory, believable alcohol perception for low- and non-alcoholic beverages. These solutions create a potentially cost-saving scenario for both producers and consumers by reducing costs associated with taxes and raw materials.
In 2024, at the world’s largest annual food and beverage tradeshow, Gulfood Manufacturing, we won the Digital Transformation Innovation of the Decade Award for Delvo®ONE. Our Delvo®ONE portfolio of all-in-one functional cultures for fermented milk products not only simplifies culture selection through AI-driven technology, but also optimizes taste, texture, and shelf life, delivering enhanced sensory and functional benefits for dairy producers.
Partnerships
Yili Group
In 2023, we signed an agreement with Chinese dairy producer Yili Group to cooperate in research, innovation, and sustainability. In 2024, we followed this by signing a Global Strategic Cooperation Memorandum specifically for our Taste division, focused on taste innovations in dairy and health. In the highly competitive Chinese market, our combined capabilities are particularly attractive to Yili.
ArtSci Biology Technologies Co., Ltd
We acquired the outstanding minority shareholding in ArtSci Biology Technologies Co., Ltd (‘ArtSci’), taking our ownership to 100% in 2024. We have been partners with ArtSci since 2019, when we took a minority stake in the company, followed by a majority stake in 2022. ArtSci, founded in 2005, is a Chinese flavor company specializing in dairy and beverages, as well as baked goods and confectionery. This will further strengthen TTH’s ability to serve the fast-growing Chinese local market and will expand TTH’s geographic reach throughout China.
