Sustainable innovation,shared value
From the heart of our industrial tradition comes a concrete commitment to a more sustainable future. Metlac Group is a leading manufacturer of paints and inks for metal packaging, developing innovative solutions that combine quality, reduced environmental impact and social responsibility.
Each formula we create tells a story of research, passion, and concern for people and the planet. Through an integrated approach and constant dialogue with our stakeholders, we aim to build a tomorrow in which sustainability and progress are deeply intertwined.
Welcome to our journey toward sustainable excellence.
Stakeholders Involved
8 main categories, including customers, local community, universities, and institutions.
Photovoltaic system
A plant installed at the Bosco Marengo site capable of producing more than 10 percent of the plant's energy needs.
ISO Certifications
METLAC Group is certified ISO 9001 for quality, ISO 14001 for environment and ISO 45001 for safety.
SynESGy Project
For supply chain assessment according to ESG parameters.
Code of Ethics and Whistleblowing
Publication of 2 new key governance documents.
Project of
decarbonization
Objective to significantly reduce CO₂ emissions in production processes.
Sustainable Factory
Event planned for 2024 to share best practices on sustainability.
Reducing the Ecological Footprint
Initiated Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies in collaboration with Eastern Piedmont University.
Letter to Stakeholders
Dear Stakeholders,
I am very pleased to present to you METLAC
Group's second Sustainability Report: a document that reflects our commitment to a more responsible and sustainable future. Over the course of 2023, we have made significant progress in several areas, reflecting our continued focus on ESG issues and, in particular, on environmental protection.
One of our priorities has always been respect for health, understood in a broad
sense: from our employees all the way to our end customers, via the protection of the surrounding environment. In fact, we implement and study new technologies and processes to reduce our emissions and optimize the use of resources, thus demonstrating our commitment to innovation and the search for sustainable solutions.
We have always maintained a strong focus on customer care, ensuring the quality of our products and offering innovative responses to changing market needs. Since 2020, our sustainable development strategy has been an integral part of our industrial strategy, with actions aimed at creating long-term value for all stakeholders.
Our successes would not be possible without our people to whom we devote attention and resources for training and skill development. Ongoing training events and programs have been organized to foster the continuing education and professional development of our employees.
Pier Ugo Bocchio
Founderand CEO of METLAC Group
Letter to Stakeholders
Dear Stakeholders,
I am very pleased to present to you METLAC
Group's second Sustainability Report: a document that reflects our commitment to a more responsible and sustainable future. During 2023 we made significant progress in several areas, reflecting our continued focus on ESG issues and, in particular, on environmental protection.
One of our priorities has always been respect for health, understood in a
broad sense: from our employees all the way to our end customers, including the protection of the surrounding environment. In fact, we implement and study new technologies and processes to reduce our emissions and optimize the use of resources, thus demonstrating our commitment to innovation and the search for sustainable solutions.
We have always maintained a strong focus on customer care, ensuring the quality of our products and offering innovative responses to changing market needs. Since 2020, our sustainable development strategy has been an integral part of our industrial strategy, with actions aimed at creating long-term value for all stakeholders.
Our successes would not be possible without our people to whom we devote attention and resources for training and skill development. Ongoing training events and programs have been organized to foster the continuing education and professional development of our employees.
Looking to the present and the future, an important step is the opening in 2024 of a new corporate site in Mexico that will allow us to expand our operations in a sustainable and responsible way, integrating our values and corporate culture with the local one.
In 2024, we will also host Sustainable Factory, an initiative that will share the best sustainable practices of local companies, thus demonstrating our commitment to be an active participant in promoting sustainable development globally.
I anticipate thanking you, the readers, for your interest and those who have always supported this company, enabling us to make such significant progress. We will continue to work hard to honor the trust of our Stakeholders and contribute to a better future for all.
Pier Ugo Bocchio
Founderand CEO of METLAC Group
Faq
Key Points
Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in concrete actions: from installing photovoltaic systems and improving energy efficiency to publishing our Code of Ethics and implementing supply chain rating systems. With the active involvement of stakeholders and employees, we continue to pursue responsible growth, reducing our environmental impact and promoting sustainable innovation.
Objective: to reduce environmental impact through energy efficiency, optimization of transportation, and reduction in waste and thus discard of materials.
- Initiate LCA analysis, energy diagnosis to refine consumption monitoring, and
Scope 3 emissions analysis. - Study how to reduce waste production and find alternative ways to value it.
- Reduce CO2 emissions through research into alternative sources and a viable decarbonization plan.
Goal: to extend the catalog to include more and more products with low environmental and social impact.
- Complete the PTFE Free and BPANI product catalog.
- Develop new product formulas with increased materials from renewable, organic or recycled sources.
- Extend product life cycle assessment (LCA) studies to all product catalog families.
- Obtain certification of LCA studies by making an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for carbon footprint (Carbon Footprint).
Goal: Reduce the vulnerability of production sites and improve safety conditions for people and business continuity.
- Improve management of site access and internal roads for people and vehicles.
- Adapt work equipment according to evolving safety standards and specific process needs.
- Monitor climate events, identify major related risks and possible mitigation actions by following up on the Emergency Plan and developing business continuity issues.
- Consolidate the implementation of the SGS-PIR, i.e., the Management System for the Prevention of Major Accidents.
Goal: To make consistent and sustainable sourcing from the supply chain.
- Establish sustainable procurement policy to formalize suppliers' commitment to adopt sustainable development principles, particularly for environment and human rights.
- Increase internal awareness of the issue.
- Consolidate the use of the SynESGy platform (CRIF) to increase supplier mapping.
- Optimize transportation to reduce CO2 emissions.
Goal: To increase transparency and dialogue with Stakeholders and strengthen its market position.
- Projects to support the spread of sustainability culture with schools and for the community.
- Increase internal awareness of these issues through participation in events such as Sustainable Factory.
- Equipping itself with tools aimed at dialogue with its Stakeholders by reducing the distance with the interlocutor by organizing targeted meetings, work on effective communication by employing documents such as the sustainability report summary.
Goal: To increase employee engagement in business strategy.
- Train internal Stakeholders (employees) on the business model, policies and Governance issues.
- Intervening in Organizational Wellbeing by improving comfort for employees.
- Improve the way staff skills and performance are evaluated for recognition in terms of compensation policies.
- Offer their employees incentives to encourage the use of environmentally friendly vehicles.
- Extend staff coaching through general and specific training and information paths to all functions.
- Have a Welfare plan in place, adopting widespread practices of facilitating staff in the home/work balance.
- Implement interventions aimed at improving health and safety conditions for staff aimed at harassment prevention, training and awareness, and protection of traveling staff through Travel Risk Management practices.
- Develop policies that support the protection of diversity, inclusion and gender equality.
