Joining forces for seriously ill children

We are very proud to support @teamrynkeby which uses to cycle all the way to Paris in order to help children with critical illnesses and their families. Together with a community of a few thousand members, we support the Children’s Cancer Foundation and Children’s Lung Foundation. The donations are used to finance vital research and to enable ill children and their families to benefit from family weekends, providing an urgently needed break in difficult times.

Together, we can make a difference!

This year’s “GO GREEN Clean Up the World” campaign took place on October 8th. Traditionally, four primary schools from the municipality of Łososina Dolna took part. Around 300 students and their teachers set about cleaning up “our world”.

We are very pleased that events of this kind have a positive impact on young people’s environmental awareness, which is reflected in the decreasing amount of waste collected.

We would like here to sincerely thank you for your visit, your time and your strong interest in our products and innovations. We hope that the past days were just as interesting and informative for you as they were for us.

The desire for interaction and presence, the face-to-face contact and the nice opportunity to develop and implement projects together delighted us.

The planning for Fi Europe 2023 in Frankfurt from November 19-21, 2024 is in progress.

For the eighth time, almost 300 children from four local primary schools collected rubbish from the area.

Due to the great commitment of the participants and the ecological awareness it creates, we are extremely pleased that the amount of rubbish thrown away in our areas is decreasing with every further campaign with our GO GREEN initiative.

This year a large-scale photovoltaic system with 2,100 KWp was put into operation at Mainfrucht.

The green electricity generated is used entirely on site and has a savings potential of >1,000,000 kg CO₂ per year. For comparison, a person causes an average of 8,700 kg of CO₂ per year.

We are proud of the successful implementation of another measure on the way to a climate-neutral future.

After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the seventh edition of the Go Green – Clean up the World campaign organized by Agrotex took place on October 7th, 2022.

240 students from three primary schools in the region took part. Thanks to the great commitment of the participants, half a ton of waste was collected.

We are proud that with every further action, the amount of rubbish thrown away is noticeably reduced.

Thanks to the Go Green program, we promote the development of ecological awareness among the young participants, who always take part in the campaign with full commitment and great joy.

We congratulate our colleague, Mr. Michael Kaltenbacher, on his graduation to industrial master for fruit juice and beverages.

In the past two years, Mr. Kaltenbacher has completed the education as industrial master at the IHK Koblenz in Germany. Despite the additional challenges due to the Covid-19 situation in the first year (distance learning/homeschooling), our colleague was not dissuaded from the way to completing his education. Mr. Kaltenbacher has been with us since 2014 and uses his knowledge and manpower in the juice processing department.

We congratulate very warmly and are happy about this great achievement!

We sincerely congratulate our colleague Mr. Jürgen Lernpaß for having completed his purchasing management diploma program.

This training was completed very successfully!

The purchasing management training program is dedicated especially to all topics that go beyond the operational day-to-day business. The global focus is oriented towards connecting purchasing to the value chain in the company, with a long-term orientation towards guaranteeing supplies. This training program updates and deepens the specialized practical knowledge in purchasing.

The present training program focuses mainly on the demands of personal management skills to meet the ever-growing challenges in strategic procurement management.

We are very pleased with this really great completion!

War is raging in the heart of Europe and many people are on the escape and need help.

A big thank you to all employees who took part in our donation campaign for those in need in the Ukraine.

A fully loaded truck with the most important relief supplies, including hygiene items, medicines, blankets, sleeping bags, clothing and food has set off on March 11th towards Ukraine.

For the overwhelming commitment and the spontaneous willingness to help thank you again!

The project of the Winnenden Community Foundation started the annual scattered fruit gathering in the past few weeks. About 500 hard-working helpers from schools, associations and daycare centers harvested a total of 7.5 metric tons of apples from 18 urban and private orchards that were made available.

The goal of the project under the motto “Protect through Utilizing” is to bring children and teenagers in closer contact to nature and the biological diversity of meadows where scattered fruit trees grow. The gathered apples are processed by the Winnenden-based “Ernteband” company and the financial proceeds, along with the contribution markups, will be paid out to the class piggy banks of the gathering groups.

The initiative was voluntarily organized and supervised by the team of the Winnenden Community Foundation. Thank you very much for it!

The P-Seminar of the Olympia Morata Academic High School led by director of studies Barbara Schug has created a planet trail between the Gochsheim and Sennfeld municipalities after months-long work. Starting with the Sun, all the planets of our solar system were placed true to scale on columns along the approximately three-kilometer hiking trail. A lot of interesting information about the respective planet can be found on the trail. The school received the support of many volunteers, among them scientific advisors of observatories, artists, craftsmen and stonemasons, as well as municipal employees, who performed the installations with the local students. We were very impressed by how the student vision has now became a reality, and the great effort made is recognizable in every detail. We gladly helped to support this fantastic project and are happy about “our” Earth, which will now hopefully delight all visitors of the planet trail.

As part of the expansion of our company headquarters, more than 13,000 broadleaved woody plants were planted as young trees and shrubs at the Gochsheim at Hexenhügel site and on the edge of the Gochsheimer Oberholz on two ecological compensation areas having a total surface area exceeding 2 ha.

The following tree species were planted: sessile oak, European hornbeam, common beech, winter and summer linden tree, field maple, wild service tree, true service tree and sweet cherry. In the first years, a game fence prevents forest dwellers from biting the trees. In the outer forest mantle, wild shrubs like hazelnut, goat willow, elderberry, wild roses, hawthorn, common dogwood, European spindle, privet and the wayfaring tree were used.

A flower-rich meadow mixture was sown outside of fence. In the first years, the rootstocks serve animals as hiding places, nesting opportunities and forage. Rootstocks and the topsoil were transferred to the reforestation area from a formerly forested area. The soil contains plant parts, seeds, soil animals, fungal spores, mycelia and microorganisms too like forest soil bacteria. This should support the development of soil fauna and vegetation typical of the forest.

We are pleased to announce that with PODGORINA FRUCHT now all of our companies have been successfully audited according to social and ethical criteria.

As a leading service platform, SEDEX is committed to ethics and commitment in the field of sustainability. We show our customers and partners that we
live sustainability and social responsibility by making our social and ethical processes transparent.

As a member of the VEA initiative “Climate-friendly companies”, as an internationally active group of companies, we take on additional corporate and social responsibility for climate protection and set a good example. Our premise is to use energy more efficiently, to rely on climate-friendly energies and to support climate protection projects.

With our own GoGreen initiative, we support sustainable cultivation in close cooperation with our farmers and suppliers. State-of-the-art technology, such as photovoltaics, energy-saving boiler systems, wastewater and heat recovery enables us to handle the environment and resources carefully. And with lively contacts to public institutions and schools, we want to motivate as many people as possible to deal responsibly with nature and to take climate-friendliness and CO2 savings seriously. Come join us.

Pomerania – our plant in northern Poland – was successfully audited as a SEDEX (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) member according to social and ethical aspects according to the SMETA4Pillar principles.

As a leading service platform, SEDEX is committed to ethics and commitment in the field of sustainability. In addition to Agrotex, all of our Polish plants are therefore integrated into the SEDEX network.

We show our customers and partners that we live sustainability and social responsibility by making our social and ethical processes transparent.

We know that the number of bees around the world has now been in decline for years. Research hur­ries along to find out exactly why that is and what to do about it. Meanwhile, the fact that bee colonies ensure the pollination of almost 90% of our crops causes a devastating ecological problem: no bees, no crops. At Grünewald International we aim at supporting our farmers in achieving a bountiful harvest efficiently and in harmony with nature. Our programme promotes the use of the mason bee for pollination as one environment-friendly cultivation strategy on the path to ecologi­cally sustainable farming. If the crops are to flourish so must the bees.

The mason bee (Osmia rufa) from the Megachilidae family of solitary bees lives in the wild all across Europe. Its name originates in the characteristic us­age of clay in nest construction. Rather than build­ing from scratch, the mason bee seeks shelter in pre-existing cavities such as hollow stems, poles and rotten tree trunks. These are furnished with small nesting cells made of clay and filled with pol­len. During the completion of a single nesting cell one bee may pollinate more than 1,200 blossoms from among 150 different plant varieties. The ability to gather large amounts of pollen and their versatile taste ranks mason bees among the most effective pollinators.

Our programme currently employs mason bees in the cultivation of apples, strawberries, raspberries, black currants and cherries. The small and harmless in­sects are extremely easy to keep and do not require the allocation of extensive beekeeping equipment. But, given that natural nesting places on groomed fields are scarce, we have to provide the bees with what little they need to make our growers’ orchards their home. Since the autumn of 2012, Grünewald International has already supplied 70 plantations with over 100 simple nesting kits to encourage permanent mason bee colonization. We are thrilled that the program has become this popular with our farmers and hope that fields buzzing with mason bees will lead to increased annual yields and further enhance the quality of our farmers’ crops.