Environmental sustainability

Environmental policy

Indesit Company promotes various initiatives and projects to guarantee respect for the environment and meet the needs of stakeholders, which involves monitoring compliance with Company environmental policy. In detail the Company:

• adopts the concept of sustainable development and considers the environment a strategic factor for competitiveness; it complies with national and international environmental legislation and co-operates with government agencies and public and private organizations engaged in environmental protection;
• organizes programmes to reduce consumption of energy, raw materials, waste and pollutant emissions and to minimize the environmental impact of products and production processes, innovation research and logistics services;
• develops products on the basis of the entire life cycle, guaranteeing quality, reliability and safety, and adopting “Design for Environment” strategies (collection, recycling and disposal of products at the end of their life cycle);
• encourages research into new technologies and service for the home, to reduce consumption and improve the quality of life;
• involves and informs all levels of the Company in support of lasting, sustainable development by integrating environmental objectives in all business processes and functions;
• guarantees that working conditions and the workplace in general are safe, healthy and as comfortable as possible;
• establishes relationships with suppliers that help them adopt responsible environmental policies (also through joint initiatives);
• assesses environmental implications before launching a new product or plant project;
• communicates environmental policy, objectives and track record in a transparent annual CSR Report.

Organization

To integrate its management of environmental and energy issues, Indesit Company set up an international technical affairs department to co-ordinate both legal compliance activities and initiatives to raise awareness and improve performance. Part of the department’s work in 2006 was to communicate sustainability culture both internally and externally (also through corporate initiatives). Such work included:

• set up of CECED Italia (Italian association of domestic and professional appliance manufacturers), of which Indesit Company was a founder member and currently chairs;
• promotion of activities by ECODOM (Italian white goods makers waste disposal consortium), which Indesit Company currently chairs. The consortium is one of the main interlocutors for the trade and government in the field of WEEE;
• design of an instrument for assessing a home’s environmental “footprint”.

European WEEE directive and Consortiums

Indesit Company is a founder member of several consortia providing for disposal of products at the end of their life cycle (WEEE Directive). It helps set up such bodies and oversees planning activities in order to guarantee implementation within the legal deadlines.

Such consortiums are the response of major white goods manufacturers to calls to eliminate pollution, including damage to the ozone layer, and to maximize recovery of materials for re-use in production processes.

Indesit Company’s commitment to and expertise in such environmental action have always been key aspects of its industrial philosophy.

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Latest update: 08/08/08