**The world's first large-scale commercial e-methanol facility, the Kassø e-methanol facility, has been officially inaugurated and is ready to deliver e-methanol to key partners.**

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**BILLUND, DENMARK, May 13, 2025:** The Kassø e-methanol facility in Aabenraa, Denmark, has been officially inaugurated and is now supplying e-methanol to offtakers.

Developed by European Energy and operated in collaboration with Mitsui & Co., the facility is owned by Solar Park Kassø ApS under Kassø MidCo ApS, with European Energy A/S holding a 51% stake and Mitsui & Co. 49%.

The Kassø e-methanol facility is supplying e-methanol to industry leaders including A.P. Moller – Maersk, the LEGO Group, and Novo Nordisk. These companies have a shared  ambition to adopt lower-carbon solutions.

The Kassø facility is the first of its kind globally to produce e-methanol at commercial scale. The plant has an annual production capacity of 42,000 tonnes and operates entirely on renewable energy sources.

Situated next to Northern Europe’s largest solar park - the 304 MW Kassø Solar Park - the facility integrates large-scale renewable power generation with carbon capture and utilisation. By combining biogenic CO₂ with green hydrogen produced on-site, the Kassø e-methanol facility manufactures e-methanol with up to a 97% reduced carbon footprint compared to fossil-based products.

The project is designed to support the direct decarbonisation of sectors that are otherwise difficult to electrify. A.P. Moller - Maersk will use e-methanol produced at Kassø to fuel Laura Mærsk, the world’s first container vessel capable of operating on methanol. E-methanol from the facility will also be used in industrial processes where fossil-based methanol has traditionally been standard. One such application is in plastics, where manufacturers aim to adopt more sustainable materials while maintaining safety and quality standards. The LEGO Group and Novo Nordisk are also offtakers of e-methanol from Kassø, using it to replace fossil methanol in the production of selected products.

Mitsui & Co. has contributed strategic expertise and global reach to support the facility's long-term development and operation. The collaboration between European Energy and Mitsui reflects a shared ambition to accelerate commercial pathways for Power-to-X technologies and expand the use of low-emission alternatives in hard-to-abate sectors globally.

**Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Energy,** said:
"The start of operations at Kassø marks a major step forward in bringing Power-to-X technologies into real-world use. This is renewable energy in action, transforming how we use electricity.”

**Takashi Furutani, Senior Executive Managing Officer at Mitsui & Co.** said:
"We are honoured to play a pivotal role in advancing this pioneering project, which fosters integrated approaches across product value chains as part of our Global Energy Transition strategy. Kassø exemplifies the importance of international collaboration in scaling low-emission solutions.”

**Rabab Raafat Boulos, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at A.P. Moller - Maersk,** said:
"We are excited to receive the first e-methanol from the Kassø facility, marking an important milestone in our global efforts to source alternative fuels for our vessel fleet. The future of shipping must include multiple fuel types operating alongside each other, with methanol playing a key role in the industry’s net-zero ambitions."

**Carsten Rasmussen, Chief Operations Officer at the LEGO Group,** said:
"Sourcing renewable e-methanol is part of our ambition to make LEGO® products more sustainable and reduce carbon emissions. Later this year, we will use the material to produce select LEGO elements - such as cross axles and connectors - while maintaining our high standards of safety, durability, and quality. This partnership is a powerful example of how collaboration and innovation across industries can accelerate meaningful progress.”

**Dorethe Nielsen, VP Corporate Environmental Strategy, Novo Nordisk,** said:
"This partnership enables us to take practical steps in decarbonising our supply chain and reducing the environmental impact of our products.”

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**European Energy**
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**A.P. Moller – Maersk**
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**Novo Nordisk**
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**About European Energy**
European Energy develops, finances, constructs and operates wind and solar farms as well as Power-to-X facilities. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, the company is developing projects in 25 countries. Founded in 2004, European Energy has a development pipeline of more than 65 GW of renewable energy projects.

**About Mitsui & Co.**
Mitsui & Co. is a global investment and trading company with a presence in more than 60 countries and a diverse business portfolio covering a wide range of industries. The company identifies, develops and grows its businesses in partnership with a global network of trusted partners including world leading companies, combining its geographic and cross-industry strengths to create long-term sustainable value for its stakeholders. Mitsui has set three key strategic initiatives for its current Medium-term Management Plan: supporting industries to grow and evolve with stable supplies of resources and materials, providing infrastructure; promoting a global transition to low-carbon and renewable energy; and empowering people to lead healthy lives through the delivery of quality healthcare and access to good nutrition. 

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**About Maersk**
A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated logistics company working to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains. As a global leader in logistics services, the company operates in more than 130 countries and employs around 100,000 people. Maersk is aiming to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 across the entire business with new technologies, new vessels, and reduced GHG emissions fuels.

**About Novo Nordisk**
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 77,400 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. 

For more information, visit [novonordisk.com][2], [Facebook][3], [Instagram][4], [X][5], [LinkedIn][6] and [YouTube][7].

**About the LEGO Group**
The LEGO Group’s mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through the power of play. The LEGO® System in Play, with its foundation in LEGO bricks, allows children and fans to build and rebuild anything they can imagine.

The LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, its name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”.

Today, the LEGO Group remains a family-owned company headquartered in Billund. Its products are now sold in more than 120 countries worldwide.

For more information: [www.LEGO.com][8]


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The world's first large-scale commercial e-methanol facility, the Kassø e-methanol facility, has been officially inaugurated and is ready to deliver e-methanol to key partners.

Kassø e-methanol facility officially inaugurated

The world’s first large-scale e-methanol plant opens in Denmark, supplying Maersk, the LEGO Group, and Novo Nordisk with low-carbon fuel for production.

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 - Opening Ceremony attended by His Excellency, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mai Văn Chính.  
 - LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam is the LEGO Group’s most environmentally sustainable factory to date. 
 - State-of-the-art facility is the company's sixth factory worldwide and second in Asia and will support long-term growth in the region. 
 - Company committed to enhancing learning through play opportunities for children in Vietnam.

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**Billund, Denmark, April 9, 2025:** The LEGO Group today celebrated the grand opening of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam in Binh Duong province, southern Vietnam.  LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam is the company’s sixth factory worldwide and second in Asia.  Built to support long-term growth in the region and bring more LEGO® play experiences to children around the world, it is also the LEGO Group’s most environmentally sustainable factory to date.  

**Niels B Christiansen, CEO of the LEGO Group**, said: “Today marks an exciting milestone for us as we proudly open our sixth factory in the world. This state-of-the-art site reflects our commitment to sustainable growth and innovation, bringing more LEGO play experiences to children and our fans in the Asia-Pacific region through increased manufacturing capacity.”  
 
The Opening Ceremony was attended by His Excellency, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Mai Văn Chính, His Excellency, Former President Nguyen Minh Triet, LEGO Group Chief Executive Officer Niels B. Christiansen, LEGO Group Chief Operations Officer Carsten Rasmussen, national and provincial officials, business and community partners, and colleagues from Vietnam and around the world. 

**The LEGO Group’s most environmentally sustainable factory** 

LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam will run on 100% renewable energy by early 2026. In addition to the factory’s own 12,400 rooftop solar panels, the company today announced a landmark agreement with Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) for an energy centre on adjacent land.  The energy centre will house the first battery storage solution of its scale in Vietnam and will be operational by the end of 2025. Remaining renewable energy needs will be met through power purchase agreements.   

**Carsten Rasmussen, COO of the LEGO Group** said: “I am extremely proud of our environmental sustainability progress in Vietnam, strengthening our positive impact locally while supporting our global ambitions. The use of battery storage solutions and power purchase agreements to increase renewable energy is not just a first for the LEGO Group but among the first for any company in Vietnam. I am thankful for the collaboration we have had with our partners in establishing frameworks and policies that can serve other companies looking to increase their own use of renewable energy.”    

The factory is also home to the LEGO Group’s first LEED Platinum certified buildings. Both its administrative building and play pavilion - a play space for children - are certified LEED Platinum, while the moulding, packing and warehousing buildings are certified LEED Gold.  

LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam is also the first LEGO factory to exclusively produce paper-based pre-pack bags.   


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**Investing in the workforce and employee experience** 

The LEGO Group is committed to recruiting and building a high-skilled talent pool in the region. In summer 2024, the company launched an internal training program that combines hands-on training at other LEGO® factories with local on-the-job instruction. The training continues today with on-site support from over 100 global trainers.  

LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam also serves as a flagship for the LEGO Group’s Future Factory Workplace concept, creating an inspiring and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and proud. The concept includes green and healthy work environments, play spaces, local community engagement in factories, and facilities such as prayer and lactation rooms, wellbeing rooms, indoor and outdoor break rooms, wheelchair accessibility and more.   

**Bringing LEGO play to more children in Vietnam**  

Guided by its mission to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow, the LEGO Group has partnered with local government, community organizations, NGOs and charities to ensure children in Vietnam benefit from greater learning through play opportunities.    

These partnerships and collaborations include: 

 - National Centre for Special Education, which has implemented the LEGO Braille Bricks programme and distributed more than 2,500 toolkits to education institutions in Vietnam. 
 - LIFE Centre, which has introduced the Build the Change programme to 16 elementary schools and community spaces in Binh Duong province, benefitting over 15,000 children. Build the Change encourages children to express ideas for a better future through building.
 - Save the Children International in Vietnam, in collaboration with the Department of Education and Training in Quang Binh Province and the National Youth Union, has benefited over 9,000 children through the Girls Unstoppable project by adopting Girl Decide curriculum and a learning through play approach.

In total, the LEGO Group’s community efforts in Vietnam will benefit more than 60,000 children by the end of 2025.  

**Distribution centre in Dong Nai province on track to open later this year** 

The LEGO Group will also open a regional distribution centre in Dong Nai province, Vietnam as part of its strategy to increase flexibility and agility in its supply chain network, which will officially open later this year. The centre has started ramping up operations, with first inbound and outbound shipments underway. It will be the company’s second distribution centre in Asia and will be operated by Kuehne+Nagel. 

**Investment:** US $1 billion 

**Jobs:** Recruitment ongoing for roles. For a full list of job openings, visit: [www.LEGO.com][1]  

**Land:** 44-hecares, size of 62 soccer pitches  

**Buildings:** Five buildings that cover approximately 150,000 m2 and include office spaces, energy centre, moulding, packing buildings, a high bay warehouse and other buildings critical to factory operations.   

**Precision manufacturing:** All LEGO factories follow the same blueprint, using high-tech equipment to produce bricks with 1/10th of a hair’s width precision.  

**Location:** Binh Duong Province, Vietnam, approximately 50km from Ho Chi Minh City  


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**Renewable energy:** The majority of the factory’s energy needs will be met through on-site rooftop panels as well as through a nearby energy centre that utilizes rooftop solar panels and battery storage solutions.  Until all remaining energy needs can be accounted for through power purchase agreements, renewable energy certificates will be used. 

**Paper-based bags:** The packaging line in this new factory will package LEGO bricks in our new paper-based bags, which replace single-use plastic bags.  

**Zero waste to landfill:** The new factory shares the same ambition as all LEGO operations of achieving zero waste from factories to landfill.  

**Certification:** LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Platinum and Gold certifications issued for the factory’s main buildings, covering energy, water and waste.

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**About the LEGO Group**  

The LEGO Group’s mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through the power of play. The LEGO System in Play, with its foundation in LEGO bricks, allows children and fans to build and rebuild anything they can imagine.     

The LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, its name derived from the two Danish words LEg GOdt, which mean “Play Well”.     

Today, the LEGO Group remains a family-owned company headquartered in Billund. Its products are now sold in more than 120 countries worldwide. For more information: [www.LEGO.com][2].   


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The LEGO Group today celebrated the grand opening of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam in Binh Duong province, southern Vietnam.  LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam is the company’s sixth factory worldwide and second in Asia.  Built to support long-term growth in the region and bring more LEGO® play experiences to children around the world, it is also the LEGO Group’s most environmentally sustainable factory to date. 

The LEGO Group opens new state-of-the-art factory in Vietnam

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The LEGO Group today celebrated the grand opening of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam in Binh Duong province, southern Vietnam.

LEGO Group opens new state-of-the-art factory in Vietnam

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