Lotte Chilsung Beverage reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by about 6400t last year through process innovation such as improving energy efficiency and upgrading equipment.

On the 4th, according to Lotte Chilsung Beverage, as part of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) management, it declared ‘2040 carbon neutrality’ in 2021. It is formulating diverse business strategies with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2040 and is implementing them in stages.

The core strategies to reduce greenhouse gases at Lotte Chilsung Beverage are expanding renewable energy, switching fuels, and adopting electric vehicles. Through these, it reduced greenhouse gas emissions by about 6400t over the past year. As a result, the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted last year decreased by about 7% from the previous year and by about 17% compared with 2018.

Lotte Chilsung Beverage expanded ‘renewable energy’ by increasing self-generation facilities at bases such as production plants, including biogas generation and the installation of solar power.

Biogas generation is a technology that produces electricity and steam by using byproducts from the production of ethanol, the main raw material for liquor. Installed at the Gunsan plant in 2024, which produces Cheongha·Baekhwaseobok, it reduced about 5000t of greenhouse gases over the past year. The 2025 output of this facility is about 9GWh, which amounts to about 50% of the Gunsan plant annual usage, and this is on par with the annual electricity consumption of 2,500 households in Seoul.

Solar power generation started with the Chungju Plant 2 in 2018, and it has since been installed and is in operation at five major sites nationwide, including the Anseong and Yangsan plants and the Gangneung RDC (regional logistics hub), reducing about 460t of greenhouse gases last year.

‘Fuel switching’ also played a part in reducing greenhouse gases. By replacing the existing fossil fuel LNG with LFG (landfill gas), a renewable energy source, it reduced about 380t of greenhouse gas emissions last year. LFG is gas generated during the decomposition of organic matter at waste landfills. Lotte Chilsung Beverage operates boilers with the captured methane gas to produce the steam needed in manufacturing processes.

The ‘electric vehicle transition’ initiative also helped. By the end of last year, the company had introduced a cumulative total of about 630 electric vehicles, cutting about 550t of greenhouse gases.

Lotte Chilsung Beverage aims to cut more than 10000t of greenhouse gas emissions this year.

A Lotte Chilsung Beverage representative said, “As the leading comprehensive beverage company in Korea, we are taking the lead in reducing carbon to fulfill our social responsibility,” adding, “We will strengthen ESG management activities that erase carbon and enhance sustainability so that we can deliver a clean environment to future generations.”