What is the outcome?

By providing a safe, healthy, affordable source of food protein and achieving a high ratio of fish-in-food-out (yield), Milarex helps cover the world’s growing nutrition needs. Additionally, Milarex promotes a sustainable production cycle by sourcing sustainability-certified salmon (95% of raw materials in 2021), using recyclable plastics (35% of consumer packaging) and moving into 100% green electricity at factory from 1st January 2022.

Who are the stakeholders?

Milarex mainly sells its products to consumers through retailers in Germany, Eastern Europe, Italy, UK, France, North America and Australia.

How big is the effect, and does it last?

Milarex sold around 24m kg of edible products in 2021. 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…

By improving consumer access to healthy, safe, sustainable, and affordable proteins, Milarex has a meaningful impact on our society. Through processing of salmon with maximum usage of the raw materials for human consumption, efficient and more environmentally friendly handling of waste from production, and utilization of all fish waste, Milarex makes healthy seafood more accessible and reduces the environmental impact from salmon processing.

Impact risk: what can go wrong?

The quality of Milarex' products is dependent on the quality of sourced raw materials. Though regulations of salmon farming are strict, the industry still has challenges in biology, animal welfare and sustainable farming practices.