Focusing on sustainable resources and products
Expanding C02 monitoring efforts to include suppliers
This year it is moving forward with further steps to protect the environment, including a more comprehensive quantification of greenhouse gas emissions in its disclosure to the CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) that will include not just Prysmian’s direct and indirect emissions from the production process but also those generated by third parties like suppliers. It will also include General Cable in all of its monitoring and reporting.
In 2018, 11 new energy diagnoses were carried out in European and non-European operating units, to obtain a more complete, reliable and updated data base on energy consumption and its distribution, with the aim of extending energy efficiency initiatives to an ever-larger number of units. The Energy Audit Plan was upgraded by the Health Safety and Environment function at the end of 2018, including for the 2019-2020 period the European operations of the recently acquired General Cable.
In addition, the Mudanya (Turkey) plant and the General Cable Nordenham (Germany) plant have consolidated energy management and consumption monitoring through the implementation, certification and maintenance of an Energy Management System (SGE) compliant with the ISO 50001:2011 international standard. Similarly, periodic energy audits have been conducted in the Group’s five other German plants, where the SGE has long been ISO50001 certified.
During 2018, the HSE team continued to work on two projects, "Relamping with LED" and "Smart Metering", respectively related to the replacement of conventional lighting fixtures with LED lamps to save energy and the introduction of systems to measure consumption at the production units.
Prysmian’s sustainability efforts start with its own headquarters in Milan. The building has received Platinum LEED certification, thanks to new technologies like a solar-paneled roof. Staff at headquarters has implemented an Energy Management System to monitor, control and optimise energy usage.
In terms of environmental performance, energy and water consumption and waste all rose by double digits in 2018 from the year before because of the enlargement of the number of plants reporting data, as well as an increase in production in certain plants.
