1. environmental sustainability

Environmental sustainability

Protecting the environment

Indesit Company has consolidated an environmental culture that it shares with its stakeholders, in the absolute conviction that respecting the environment is not only a fundamental value but a strategic factor of competitiveness and sustainability in the business model. The Group has adopted an approach to managing environmental impacts generated along the entire life cycle of the household appliances, from design up to the end of the product’s life.
For Indesit Company innovation in favour of the environment has always been a priority for development, to create value and achieve sustainable growth.
An area of great development in the environmental field is the search for solutions for domestic automation, a recent evolution of the eco sustainable route of products started some time ago with the launch of the first digital washing-machine able to connect to the network and with the development of the smart tag technology, thanks to which washing-machines and refrigerators apply the most suitable treatment based on the type of wash or food. Many of these innovative functions have bought significant reductions in water and energy consumption: the washing-machines and dish-washers of the new platform will consume, in the average 15 years of life, more than 60% less energy that those of the old platform, and refrigerators 75% less.
As a member of the ZigBee Alliance, the international organisation consisting of more than 250 companies dedicated to the development and implementation of the standard for wireless connectivity, Indesit took another step forward to absorb and contribute to define the most suitable protocol to guarantee interoperability among household appliances and other devices created by different manufacturers. More generally, the continuous commitment to research and development led the Group to use more smart technology inside its products: today the electronic range is equal to 70% of the entire household appliance production.

Eco-efficiency in production and the reduction of consumption of products

One of the main areas to control environmental impacts is the productive phase. For this reason for some time now, the Group has been using various tools to control the environmental impact within its production plants, such as the environmental management system certification (ISO 14001) and the energy certification (EN 16001).
In recent years Indesit Company, aware of the impact that the use of household appliances has on the emission of greenhouse gases and consequently on climate change (the energy impact generated by usage is actually 80% of the total impact), has defined a strategy based on the development of highly energy efficient products.