For over 30 years, Oleificio Zucchi has continued to invest heavily in innovation and plant upgrades, as well as working to provide real guarantees not only of the quality and healthiness of its products, but also of the social and environmental sustainability of its business , continuing a tradition in which the company’s guiding values are responsibility and transparency.
These same values inspire our daily work at Oleificio Zucchi, confirming their status as an integral part of the company’s management and decision-making processes, as well as representing the milestones of a roadmap that is as ambitious as it is essential: the implementation of our improvement plan consistently with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a Resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015).
Consistently with these objectives and its production chain, Oleificio Zucchi is working to strengthen the following global goals BY 2030:
improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for everyone at all ages
promote gender equality and eliminate all forms of discrimination
ensure access for all to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy
promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
ensure that products are safe, assess the social and environmental impact of production processes and products throughout their life cycle, promote the circular economy and the efficient use of resources
take urgent action to fight climate change and its impacts, based on the belief that the united nations framework convention on climate change provides a reliable scientific and political basis for a global response to climate change
strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Oleificio Zucchi has published its Sustainability Report since 2005, with a view to sharing its sustainable development policies with internal and external stakeholders, as well as becoming a case study for the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 2016, it adopted the GRI guidelines, version G4, Comprehensive option. This report describes the steps taken to achieve the sustainability goals set out in the 2030 Agenda.
For Oleificio Zucchi, the Sustainability Report is the main tool used to report on the company’s activities and results at economic, environmental and social level, as well as a key source of information and dialogue with stakeholders. The report is drawn up based on criteria of transparency, access to the audit and records, neutrality, comparability, accuracy, timeliness, clarity and reliability.
The highlights of the 2021 report are as follows:
Representing the new oil culture
COMPANY TURNOVER
IN BUSINESS FOR 200 YEARS
Environment Ethics Quality Safety
EXPORTS
employees
hours of training provided in 2021 in various thematic areas
of employees have open-ended contracts
of employees are women
years: average employee seniority
COMPANY TURNOVER (value)
VOLUNTARY CERTIFICATIONS
About 39,000 analyzes interiors made during the year about our products
The richest on the market of 100% Italian oils, sustainable, traced and organic.
-6,9% electric power savings -8,5% natural gas savings (change in consumption per unit of oil processed vs 2016)
VEHICLES ARE HYBRID
direct and indirect of CO2 per tonne of oil processed (2021 vs 2016)
97,169 tonnes of unrefined oil received per year by train - 72% INDIRECT EMISSIONS of CO2 for oil transport vs 2017
(2021 vs 2016)