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Italy's Marchi & Fildi slashed water use by 57% in 2022

24 Nov '23

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Marchi & Fildi's Italian headquarter and plant in Biella. Pic: Marchi & Fildi

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In 2022, Italy's Marchi & Fildi achieved significant reductions in resource consumption, with a 57 per cent decrease in water usage, 19 per cent in wastewater, and 13 per cent in electric power.
Filidea, part of the same group, saw reductions of 26 per cent in water and 7 per cent in natural gas.
The reductions led to a 7 per cent fall in CO2 emissions.

Italy’s Marchi & Fildi reported a unit reduction in water consumption of 57 per cent and unit reduction of wastewater of 19 per cent in 2022 in comparison to 2021. While there was a unit reduction in electric power consumption of 13 per cent, there was an overall reduction of 22 per cent in CO2 emissions (Scope I + Scope II).

In the same period, for Filidea, there was a 26 per cent unit reduction in water consumption and 22 per cent unit of wastewater. There was a 7 per cent reduction in unit natural gas consumption and a 14 per cent reduction in unit electric power consumption. CO2 emissions (Scope I + Scope II) showed an overall reduction of 7 per cent, according to the Marchi & Fildi Group’s first Sustainability Report which relates to the business year 2022.

The 2022 Report has the objective of describing the company profile, the management model, the initiatives undertaken, and the main results over the course of the years pertaining to environmental, social, and governance (ESG).

The report was drawn up pursuant to a selection of ‘GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards’ (GRIreferenced claim) published by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), on the basis of the topics relevant for the Group and its stakeholders and which moreover constitute the factors on which to focus actions and strategies relating to ESG.

The document is part of the journey towards consolidation of internal sustainability performance, a topic which has always guided the company’s values and choices in terms of innovation of products and processes, facility technology, and relationships with the region and people.

The data and the information reported examine the performance relative to the companies Marchi & Fildi and Filidea during January 1, 2022–December 31, 2022. In addition, with the aim of putting the data into a context of developments, a comparison with data pertaining to 2021 was also made. The data offers quantitative feedback on the constant commitment to the optimisation of resources and use of production technologies with low energy impact, which the Group has adopted for years.

“The decision to write a Sustainability Report represents for us one of the elements which guide us towards the constant improvement of company performance with reference to ESG. This is one of the stages towards the formalisation of a strategic plan for the management of sustainability, a journey which the Group has been committed to for years and in which we believe 100 per cent,” said Massimo Marchi, Marchi & Fildi’s president.

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