Vice President of Fazer Lifestyle Foods | Lahti | Finland

Anna Nicol is the innovator behind building a new Xylitol factory producing healthy sweetener from side stream of oat mill, oat hulls in Lahti. With this circular economy innovation, they reduce food waste and also CO2 emissions by burning the oat hull cake from Xylitol production to bioenergy. Her current focus is to start the production and see new Xylitol based applications in the market.