Health and climate action

What is the outcome?

By providing a safe, healthy, affordable source of food protein (SDG 3)6 and achieving a high ratio of fish-infood-out (yield), Milarex helps cover the world’s growing nutrition needs. Also, replacing other, more carbonintensive, protein sources such as livestock with salmon reduces GHG emissions (SDG 12). Milarex also acts to avoid harm to life below water (SDG 14) by sourcing sustainability-certified salmon. 93% of the company’s raw materials were certified in 2019.

Who are the stakeholders?

Milarex mainly sells its products to consumers through retailers in Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe, UK, US, and other countries. Salmon is a premium protein, increasing the availability through affordable solutions makes salmon more accessible for more consumers.

How big is the effect, and does it last?

Milarex sold around 17 m kilos of edible products in 2019. Going forward, the company expects a continued stable demand for salmon on the back of increasing health and sustainability awareness amongst consumers.

If Milarex didn’t exist…

What differentiates Milarex to its industry peers is its ability to produce high-quality salmon protein with high raw material yields and a stringent approach to food safety at a low cost for the consumers. Thus, by improving consumer access to healthy, safe, sustainable, and affordable proteins, Milarex has a meaningful impact on our society. Further, through selling processed fish with a longer shelf life, and utilizing the whole fish by selling by-products, Milarex contributes to reducing food waste.

Impact risk: what can go wrong?

The quality of Milarex' products is dependent on the quality of sourced raw materials. Though regulation is strict, the industry is still plagued with diseases, sea lice and high fish mortality, which can have negative effects on their surroundings in addition to impacting the quality of the fish meat.