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4.3 Less resources consumed,
a better future
The consumption of raw materials
The Ratti Group purchases raw materials
in an almost entirely centralised manner at
the Guanzate premises (e.g. for all chemical substances and dyes), which manages purchases of materials that are then sent to the sites in Romania and Tunisia.
The remaining materials are purchased locally by the foreign companies in negligible quantities, following the general recommendations which favour the
use of substances that have less impact on the environment and that are suitable for recycling, as set out in the Environmental Polices of the foreign companies.
For its Responsible Collection (described in detail in Chapter 3, paragraph 3.2 “Tradition that pays attention to the environment”) in 2018 Ratti further widened its offer in terms of sustainable raw materials, confirming its decisive response
to the challenges posed by a market that is increasingly demanding in terms of environmental sustainability and transparency.
As may be seen in Table 4, in 2018 Ratti further increased its use of eco-sustainable fabrics, introducing four new materials: GOTS organic wool, regenerated wool, responsible leather and recycled Nylon. In addition, Ratti is committed, through ad hoc research, to reducing the quantity of chemical products used for all the fabrics it produces.
In particular, in Ratti SpA the consumption of chemical products in 2018 fell by 7.03% per metre of scoured fabric, while per metre of printed fabric it remained essentially the same (+1.30%), apart from some slight variation in the production
Innovation in systems
of material requirement planning
The goal of the project is to ensure coverage of the requirements for raw materials or semi-finished materials generated by sales or production orders, optimising warehouse monitoring, purchase flows, work in progress, and always with an eye on reducing waste.
The project, developed using internal IT and production resources, involved designing and implementing a System of Material Requirement Planning, and was concluded in 2018.
specification during the year (such as, for example, printing design and type of fabric used).
As regards consumption of printing paper by the offices at the Guanzate premises, this went down from 14,788 kg in 2016 to 13,950 kg in 2017 and 14,050 kg in 2018, a reduction of 4.99% compared with the data gathered for 2016.
Packaging
All paper packaging used by the Ratti Group comes from renewable sources that are FSC certified. Further action has also been taken at the Guanzate plant, aimed at reducing packaging and the waste of raw materials.
This includes using folding and stackable plastic boxes for internal deliveries within the Group
at the Tunisia site. Thanks to this action, which allows transport optimisation, from 2017 to 2018 total packaging over metres of fabric produced
decreased by 30.77%.
Specifically on the basis of the successful model for stackable boxes, in 2018 Ratti carried out an analysis of possible returnable packaging with suppliers and customers.
Table 5 shows aggregate figures for packaging used at the Italy, Tunisia and Romania premises for the three-year period 2016-2018.
+23.45%
Total metres
of fabric printed
+4.95%
Metres of eco-sustainable printed fabrics
-7.03%
Reduction of chemicals consumed per
metre of fabric scoured
100%
Packaging using FSC certified paper
Stackable plastic boxes Use of stackable
and reusable plastic boxes which allow transport optimisation and waste reduction.
Tab. 4 - Raw materials used in production at the Italy and Romania factories (including fabrics from third parties)
u.m. - m PRINTED
FABRICS*
Of which: eco-sustainable printed fabrics
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3,608,968
2016
7,626
64,318 67,505
4.95%
2017
4,393,019
5,423,377
2018
Variation
Total printed fabrics
23.45%
* The data for 2016 and 2017 have been updated following a change in the method of calculation.
Tab. 5 - Packaging used, subdivided by material, for the premises of Italy, Tunisia and Romania
RATTI GROUP
2016
2017
2018
Variation
3,625
7,276
5,376
-26.11%
u.m. - kg
FSC PAPER
CARDBOARD 70,609
PLASTIC 13,456
PALLETS 30,795
kg 118,485
kg/m 0.04
72,534
13,315 30,754
123,879 0.03
62,781
9,572
18,074
95,803
0.02
-13.45%
-28.11%
-41.23%
-22.66%
-30.77%
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