Our commitment is clear: by advancing our sustainability priorities and fostering collaboration, we aim to secure the future of our business. Together, we are shaping a sustainable tomorrow for dairy farmers.
Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do – it shapes our actions, informs our decisions, and reflects our responsibility to create long-term value for farmers, their animals and the communities they serve.
By focusing on smarter resource use and operational efficiency, we help farmers produce milk with less environmental impact while improving animal welfare and working conditions. Together with our partners and employees, we build a resilient business that delivers value for all our stakeholders while safeguarding the planet. Sustainability is a shared responsibility, and we are proud to lead progress across the dairy value chain.
Advancing a sustainable future
We amended our sustainability model in 2024 to focus on what we can do to enhance our positive impact. Our updated sustainability model is structured around five Sustainability Focus Areas: Innovations, Animal Welfare, Planet, People and Profitability. Everything is connected to governance, which serves as the natural foundation for our focus areas. In addition, we have topics that were defined through our Double Material Assessment. Our main focus going forward is on these areas and topics – always with our customers in the centre.
Our sustainability topics
- Research and development, innovation and digital services
- Milk quality
- Animal welfare
- Product safety, quality and compliance
- Greenhouse gas emissions and climate action
- Energy efficiency
- Water management
- Employee safety and wellbeing
- Collaboration and partnership
- Customer satisfaction
DeLaval and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
To us, sustainable food production is more than an ambition, it is the cornerstone of our entire business strategy. We have aligned our sustainability work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and concentrated on the goals where we believe we make the greatest contribution.
“We aim to make sustainability a practical and measurable part of everything we do – not just a guiding principle, but an operational focus throughout the business.”
Maria Collin, Head of Group Sustainability at DeLaval.
Our sustainability targets, KPIs and progress
We made progress on our sustainability targets and KPIs in 2024. For the full story, see our latest Sustainability Report at https://corporate.delaval.com/sustainability/
1 DeLaval excluding adjacent businesses. When adjacent businesses are included, the figures are 26.2% (24% in 2023) female employees and 25.7% (25.3% in 2023) female managers.
Innovations
We focus our innovation efforts on delivering maximum impact and value for our customers. We have a process where every new product development undergoes an ‘improvement assessment’ to ensure that each product directly contributes to our sustainability targets. An integrated approach to product development builds a culture of innovation that addresses challenges for our customers, our business and the planet.
Our continuous work with animal welfare
Healthy animals are productive animals, and we strive to develop products that are good for the herd through our product development and customer advisory services. In 2024, we launched several new products that have been developed to make farmers’ and cows’ lives better. We continuously invest in R&D to improve cow wellbeing when interacting with DeLaval products and we remain committed to making sustainable food production possible.