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 2023 are as follows:

The World of Zucchi

THE CORE OF OUR IDENTITY

Representing the new culture of oil

COMPANY TURNOVER

Euro 359.8 mil in 2023 (+35.5% since 2021)

EXPORTS

to 45 countries worldwide

OUR VALUES

Environment Ethics Quality Safety

ON THE MARKET FOR 200 YEARS

with 100% Italian capital

People

165

people

25

new hires

84%

of staff are on permanent contracts

25%

of staff are women

2,781

hours of training, an average of 16.7 hours per employee

Products

COMPANY TURNOVER

(value terms) 51% Bulk Division 49% Consumer Division

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VOLUNTARY CERTIFICATIONS

QUALITY CONTROL

About 40,000 in-house analyses performed on our products during the year

RANGE

The market’s richest of 100% italian, sustainable, treaceable and organic oils

ENVIRONMENT

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

-5.3% electricity consumption per tonne of oil processed (2023 vs 2022) 96% of electricity used is produced in-house

EMISSIONS

-1.9% total GHG emissions (2023 vs 2022) -19.6% Scope 2 GHG emissions (2023 vs 2022 - market-based criterion) -4.3% total GHG emissions per tonne of oil processed (2023 vs 2022)

WASTE AND PACKAGING

92.79% of waste produced sent for recovery 11.37% recycled content of plastic packaging purchased

93%

of cars in company fleet are hybrid

106,582 t

of incoming crude oil/year delivered by train

MORE THAN €5 MILLION INVESTED IN PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

(from 2018 to 2023)

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