At Viking Malt, we have focused on corporate social responsibility (Environment, Labor Practices, Fair Business Practices, Sustainable Procurement) during several years already. Certified environmental, quality and food safety management systems are good starting points for systematic improvement of performance, whereas participating in Sedex and EcoVadis has helped us to identify the main improvement areas. Both … Read more
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Today Viking Malt product portfolio contains also malt extracts, produced by Senson. Very popular products are the Gluten Free Malt Extracts, which are containing less than 20 ppm gluten. In terms of color or taste, there is no difference between gluten free malt extracts and traditional malt extracts. Gluten free malt extracts are typically used … Read more
The Viking Malt plant located in Halmstad invested a while ago in a new modern bagging station for pallets. For our customers taking bags on pallets there are some changes to notice. Our standard pallet size used to be 600 kg, now it is 1000 kg. We have changed bag material from brown paper bag … Read more
Enclosed is the status report in the beginning of May 2018 from the malting barley fields in all Viking Malt countries: Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. Viking Malt Malting Barley Report May 2018
Organic Cultivation is demanding For cultivation of malting barley, an organic farming system means reaching a good barley yield together with high malting quality without any help of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Green manure grass, livestock manure and processed animal waste are used as fertilizer. Weeds are treated mechanically and kept under control with wide … Read more
Spendrups Bryggeri AB is a family owned brewery in Sweden. The company has long traditions in brewing since 1897 and more than 900 co-workers. Today Spendrups is known for the quality beer brands and many insipirational, growing new brands like Pistonhead and Brutal Brewing. We asked the Head of Brewery, Richard Bengtsson, how he sees … Read more
In Viking’s portfolio we also have many organic malts. What does ‘organic’ actually mean and what’s the difference between organic and conventional malts? Background and legislation Organic production means the use of a production method compliant with the rules established in Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007of 28 June 2007, at all stages of production, preparation and … Read more
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The owners of Polttimo Group have established a foundation to support the research work against cancer. The Relander Foundation started its operations in 2016 in Finland and the first grants will be decided during 2018. The main focus of the foundation is to enable doctorate and post doctorate researchers to go abroad to do research […]
The 2017 crop season has shown unreliable and partly extreme weather conditions and made the life for many malting barley farmers difficult. Related to these problems there is in most European countries a lot of sorting work to be done: to sort the harvested barley lots into good, acceptable and downgraded ones. Prices have been … Read more