Roularta Media Group builds solar park with nearly 3,000 panels

Roularta Media Group has started the construction of a large solar panel park consisting of 2,933 panels at its main site in Roeselare. With this investment, the company aims to invest in the future and achieve its sustainability goals.

Approximately 75% of the energy generated by the new panels will be used for the printing activities and offices, but also for charging the electric vehicle fleet, for example.

The total investment in the new solar park amounts to approximately one million euros. The preparatory groundwork has already been completed, the frames and afterwards the panels will be installed in the coming months, and the installation should be operational in March 2026.

The solar panel project is part of Roularta Media Group's sustainability program, which specifically endorses four UN SDGs.

Xavier Bouckaert, CEO Roularta Media Group:
"We are focusing on four priority goals. This investment is closely aligned with SDG 12, which revolves around sustainable production and consumption and working with partners who support this vision, and with SDG 13, in which we strive for responsible energy and resource management to reduce our ecological footprint and become CO2 neutral by 2040. Examples of previous steps in this direction include reusing heat from the printing plant for the offices, installing energy-efficient drying ovens, and gradually electrifying our vehicle fleet."

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Xavier Bouckaert, CEO
xavier.bouckaert@roularta.be
+32 (0)51 26 61 11

For more information:
Barbara Spyckerelle
barbara.spyckerelle@roularta.be

Roularta Media Group (RMG) is a listed multimedia group with almost 1,200 employees and a total revenue of 320 million euros. In Belgium, RMG is the market leader in magazines in Dutch and French, and the market leader in local media with publications such as De Zondag. In the Netherlands, RMG has the second-largest portfolio of magazine brands. RMG has a hypermodern offset printing works, Roularta Printing, which serves all the major media companies in the Benelux region and the surrounding countries. RMG has powerful digital tools, such as the app ‘Mijn Magazines’, with a digital kiosk, a 24/24 website with input from all the editorial teams and subscriptions that are accessible to the whole family. The sustainability programme Roularta Cares makes RMG a trendsetter in the field of sustainability in the media sector. More information is available at www.roularta.be.