Sustainability
Getting more sustainable
with every piece of chocolate
We believe that companies should play a major role making the world a better place. That is why we are committed towards sustainability as an integral part of our objectives and actions.
As a family business with the highest quality standards in all aspects of what we do, leaving a positive contribution to future generations and to work towards a more sustainable and liveable future is very important for us.
Our objective is to improve along the entire value chain to become more sustainable.
Responsible sourcing of raw material and packaging, the reduction of CO2 emissions and the continuous reduction and enforcing recyclability of our packaging is already part of our mission.
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The production of palm oil has a drastic impact on our environment. Large areas of tropical rainforest are destroyed for palm oil plantations - a real disaster for animal and plants living in this areas.
The monoculture of oil palms on these plantations also requires the massive use of pesticides and fertilisers that might pollute water and affect the health of locals.
That's why Reber is strictly committed already since 2014 not to use palm oil but to only use high-quality cocoa butter in 100% of our products.
100% of the cocoa we use is UTZ-certified.
UTZ is now part of the Rainforest Alliance. The two organisations joined forces in 2018 to create a better future for people and nature. Learn more at www.rainforest-alliance.org
Offering a premium product in high quality over its total life cycle is mandatory for us. That´s why packaging plays an important role in food protection.
And we have initiated some projects to reduce packaging and avoid native plastic
- We started to implement trays made from more than 70% recycled plastic
- We were testing to replace outer plastic film with a fully biodegradable solution.
- We are reducing the amount of plastic by, e.g. removing product windows.
- Ensuring 100% recyclability of our packaging is a clear objective.
In order to make it easier for our consumers to recycle, we give guidance via on-pack recycling guidelines that is going to be implemented with every new packaging to come
This will make it easier for our consumers to know which material to dispose in which bin.
At our production site in Bad Reichenhall, we produce without the use of fossil energy since 2024.
With a photovoltaic system on top of our production buildings of a size of 4.400 m2, we generate the amount of electricity that we need for production on site.
By this, we are saving around 500 tonnes of CO2 every year – the equivalent of 400 flights between Frankfurt and New York city in CO2 emissions.
