CONCRETE COMMITMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Assomac associated companies are well aware of the difference they are able to make in terms of global challenges for sustainability; being able to provide technological solutions helpful to direct processes towards productions with a lower environmental impact and towards a better social development.

The program "Supplier of Sustainable Technologies" is meant to promote and share, within the international Fashion supply chain, thematics about the smart usage and handling of natural sources, energetical sources and the water usage, as well as safety and workers' welfare, with the objective of qualifying their manufacturing productive processes as sustainable, through a scientific approach.

CONSUMPTION CALCULATION

The global leather, leather goods, and footwear industry — as well as the broader fashion sector — is increasingly shifting towards production models that prioritize greater energy efficiency and reduced environmental impact.

For years, Italian suppliers of machinery and equipment have been working to provide technological solutions that focus on reducing energy, water, and chemical consumption within the production process, with the goal of creating a more responsible and consumption-conscious production cycle that respects the environment.

The lack of internationally recognized standards for classifying the energy and environmental performance of such machinery prompted Assomac to launch the “Supplier of Sustainable Technologies” project in 2017. The goal was to develop and promote key issues deemed essential for the fashion, leather, and footwear industries.

At the heart of the project is a calculation system through which companies report their energy and environmental performance based on internationally recognized parameters, such as CFP (Carbon Footprint) — the amount of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions — measured using the standardized and shared LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) methodology.

TREEDOM

Assomac chose Treedom initiative as a tool for compensating emissions, financing on planting 700 trees in Madagascar.

With this agro-forestry project, Assomac contributes to the resorption of CO2, reforestation, protection of biodiversity, fight against soil erosion and desertification, in addition to a positive improvement of local communities.

It is a small concrete action that adds up to the other initiatives started with the intention of reducing carbon footprint of its associates' production processes, generating a positive outcome for the entire Planet.