The Group’s energy consumptions mainly derive from the production plants, lighting, heating and cooling the workplace, from the company vehicles and from the owned logistics vehicles that ensure internal transport between the various Group plants. Most direct energy consumption (65%) is due to production, which uses 59% of Group employees.

Faced with these objectives, wherever possible, the Group acquires its electricity from renewable sources. In addition, taking a five-year approach, it has invested more than 7 million euros in the installation of photovoltaic plants and assuring increased energy efficiency in various sites in Italy, Croatia and Sri Lanka.

In plants where thermal systems are in place using fossil fuels, maintenance is carried out regularly to make sure that they are operating correctly and, in accordance with local regulations or preventive controls, measurements taken on the burner combustion characteristics. In 2018, a campaign began to monitor the existing thermal plants in all production sites, to replace obsolete machines with heat pumps that, when powered by electricity obtained from renewable sources, cancel out the CO2e emissions. 

We have installed photovoltaic panels in various production sites, to produce energy from renewable sources, with the following results:

In 2021, the Group invested 1.3 million euros in making lighting systems more efficient, implementing LED technology in stores and production plants. Today, more than 91% of our stores only use LED lighting as do all our production plants.

We have been using LED lighting for some time now, with controlled processes and high energy efficiency materials. Growing use of low consumption, high performance LED technology in stores, offices and plants, successfully rationalises the inclusion of light sources, making for concrete energy savings and lesser dispersion of heat into the environment. We expect that by 2023 all the Group’s production plants will be equipped with low energy consumption LED lights. 

For years, the Group has been investing in efficient lighting systems, implementing LED technology in warehouses and production facilities. Currently, more than 99% of our point of sales and 100% of our production plants use LED lighting systems.

The increasing use of energy-efficient lighting with high-performance LED technology in our point of sales, headquarters and production plants allows rationalisation of light sources, concrete energy savings and lower heat dispersion into the environment. In the last three years, we estimate that thanks to these investments, there have been savings in consumption of more than 1,300 GJ.

For years, we have been working to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions produced by our business operations and, more recently, we have broadened our perspective by also focusing on all those emissions that do not come directly from our business, but from those of our suppliers, customers and employees.

In this way, we can assess our global carbon footprint and make more conscious choices to reduce our impact on climate change: buying low-carbon materials; supporting recycling of garments; making our consumption more efficient; and investing in renewable energy.