Baking the world a better place...
We are committed to leaving this world as we found it and we always have future generations front of mind. Having built a world-class sustainability-focused baking facility and made significant reductions in our overall environmental impact, our challenge now is to maintain this energy and drive to identify further opportunities to improve. From packaging, to water and energy efficient bakery design, we look for opportunities to reduce our environmental footprint. We also try to encourage awareness of how we can each improve our world. Sustaining generations takes more than quality products and services. It takes personal responsibility, innovation and a willingness to think of new ways to do business.
About Ferguson Plarre’s Bakehouse
- Status
- Website
- Visit Website
- Employees
- 100 - 500
- Industry
- Food & Beverages
- Country
- Australia
- Founded
- 1901
Ferguson Plarre’s Bakehouse Sustainability Actions
Ferguson Plarre’s Bakehouse Sustainability Commitments
2007
Launched Victoria's First Hybrid-Diesel Truck
Supported by Sustainability Victoria, it allows up to 20 per cent improved fuel economy than a similar conventional truck, and to achieves greater emission control.
2007
Established the Ferguson Plarre Forest
Our forests now include over 40,000 trees and while they’re doing a great job of turning CO2 into oxygen, they’re also helping to support our natural Australian fauna and reducing soil erosion.
2013
Reduced Waste in Bakery by Over 90%
Using the latest bulk raw material handling equipment and a piggery for food scraps, halving he landfill requirement and saving 600 tonnes of emissions from being emitted.