PLANET
Innovating for Tomorrow
Our commitment to ensuring a sustainable future through every aspect of our business, respecting both the planet and people.
PACKAGING WITH A PURPOSE
To effectively reduce environmental impact and actively commit to decreasing plastic waste, we are progressively replacing the use of virgin plastic materials with alternatives such as recycled PET or FSC-certified paper from sustainable forests.
To help protect the environment, check the packaging for its composition and consult the table to see how you can recycle it correctly.
RESHAPING OUR ENERGY
As part of its environmental sustainability strategy, at the beginning of 2024 a broad and structured energy optimisation project was launched, with the aim of significantly reducing the consumption of methane gas and purchased electricity per unit of finished product leaving the plant.
Development of a renewable energy production and storage system: a project has been defined for the installation of five BESS charging units with a total capacity of 1,000 kW, enabling more efficient management of consumption peaks and improving the plant’s energy autonomy.
Photovoltaic canopies will be installed over the plant’s internal and external parking areas, providing an additional capacity of 300 kWh. With these measures, the total nominal capacity of the photovoltaic system will exceed 1,100 kW. Both installations will be completed in the first half of 2025, further contributing to the reduction of CO₂ emissions.
Optimisation of combined heat and power generation systems (cogeneration): the new control system has also been extended to the management of the boilers and the cogeneration plant at the site, which can generate 360 kW of electrical power at full load while recovering approximately 430 kW of thermal energy. The recovered thermal energy is fed back into production processes, improving overall plant efficiency and reducing the demand for primary energy.
During the period under review, we launched a pilot project for digital energy management (Building Energy Management System – BEMS) in selected retail stores. This is an extension of the system installed at our Castelletto Stura production site, with the aim of monitoring and optimising energy consumption and therefore reducing CO₂ emissions.
In 2024, we purchased Guarantees of Origin to offset 100% of the electricity purchased from renewable sources (for 2023 consumption). In 2025, we plan to offset 100% of the electricity purchased from renewable sources on a global level.
In 2025, we reached a consumption of only 0.2 tonnes of oil equivalent per tonne of finished product: about half of what it was three years ago.
POR FESR Piedmont 2014–2020 programme
The above improvements were made possible thanks to co-funding from the POR FESR Piedmont 2014–2020 programme, which allowed us to make several investments to improve our efficiency. The POR FESR (Regional Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund) is the primary instrument through which the Piedmont Region (Italy) invests in the growth and modernization of the local economy. Co-funded by the European Union, the program focuses on four key pillars: strengthening research and technological development, enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs, supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy, and promoting digital transformation across the territory.
CO₂ Analysis
Starting in 2024, we began an important journey to measure our Group’s CO₂ footprint, using 2023 as the baseline year.
Our comprehensive carbon footprint analysis tracks Scopes 1, 2, and 3 across the entire value chain, allowing us to monitor our decarbonization progress through 2025. While total emissions rose due to company growth, we achieved a significant 15% reduction in Scope 1 and a 23% reduction in Scope 2 emissions. Driven by plant efficiency and 100% certified green electricity in Italy, these efforts have successfully lowered our emissions intensity by 34%.