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On the road with biofuel

14. January 2025
ONLINE Systemlogistik Zentral-HUB in Schlitz

A good start to the new year: with immediate effect, we will be using only biodiesel for the line hauls to our French partner network Astre Palet System. The trucks that travel to the Astre hubs near Paris and Lyon will now only use B100 biofuel. The advantage: Compared to fossil fuels, biofuels reduce greenhouse gases by at least 60 per cent; in 2023 alone, 12 million CO2 equivalents were saved by biofuels used in Germany. The starting products for the production were waste and residual materials (60 per cent) as well as cultivated biomass, primarily rapeseed and corn. What is interesting here is that when rapeseed is processed, not only rapeseed oil for biodiesel is produced – according to the Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e. V. (Agency for Renewable Resources), 60 per cent of the plant is used as a protein-based animal feed.