Sustainability report - Oleificio Zucchi

Sustainability

A real commitment

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:

Food Safety:

improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Good health and well-being:

ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for everyone at all ages

gender equality:

promote gender equality and eliminate all forms of discrimination

affordable and clean energy:

ensure access for all to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy

decent work and economic growth:

promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

responsible consumption and production:

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

climate action:

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

partnership for the goals:

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.

Sustainability Path

Oleificio Zucchi's
2005

First
Sustainability
Report

2022 XVIII Edition
2008

Inner
railway
yard

Halving Road
Transport

2011

Social
responsibility
system

SA 8000
Certification
2012

Occupational
health and
safety
management
system
2015

Oleificio Zucchi
for sustainability

Legambiente
Project
2016

Sustainable
seeds

Oilseeds Chain
DTP 112

2016/2017

Sustainable Evo

Olive oil sector
DTP 125
2020

Scientific
committee
for evo
sustainability
guidelines
2021

UNI ISO 45001 certification

Health management
system and safety
at work

Sustainibility pills

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 2022 are as follows: