Sustainability
Day after day Verbano Film uses every means to reduce the impact on the environment as much as possible.
To improve our environmental sustainability and compensate for our important energy needs, we have decided to build a latest generation photovoltaic system on the roof of our factory, in order to produce clean energy with ZERO CO2 emissions.
The plant covers an area of over 1.200 m2 (more than 550 modules installed for over 80.000 cells) and allows an annual production of clean energy of approximately 350.000 kWh.
This production of energy from renewable sources avoids the emission of approximately 185.000 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, almost equal to that emitted by 100 medium-sized cars traveling 15.000 km/year.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2024
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ecovadis
The international platform EcoVadis enables companies’ sustainability performance to be evaluated and analyzed in a comprehensive and structured way, covering four key areas: environment, labor practices and human rights, business ethics and sustainable procurement.
In 2025, Verbano Film was awarded the Silver Medal, a significant recognition that demonstrates the company’s concrete commitment to ESG issues. This result not only highlights the path undertaken but also strengthens credibility and transparency towards stakeholders, improving the company’s competitive positioning in the market.
The adoption of the rating has brought numerous benefits to the company: enhanced reputation and reliability, access to new types of business opportunities, and improved ESG risk management.
For Verbano Film, it represents a strategic tool not only to ensure compliance and transparency, but also to integrate sustainability into its business model.
sedex
The SEDEX digital platform assesses ethics and sustainability, both from a social and environmental perspective.
Providing external validation of data and ensuring reliable and transparent sharing. It collects, manages, and analyzes information across the entire supply chain.
For Verbano Film it represents a strategic governance tool, as it strengthens reputation and credibility in the market, ensures full visibility at all levels of the supply chain, improves risk management, increases partner trust, and promotes continuous improvement.
In this way, we transform findings into concrete corrective action plans. For us, it is not merely a data collection platform, but a true system that supports us in achieving sustainable competitiveness.
Verbano Film is concretely committed to sustainable development, manufacturing products from “green” raw materials, i.e. of bio-circular origin.
We are certified in accordance with the ISCC PLUS international standard which sets traceability and chain of custody as fundamental points to guarantee the integrity of the sustainability statements issued to customers.
Use of sustainable raw materials
100% of our processing waste destined for recovery
Virtuous business model based on the circular economy
An important part of our production is reserved for the creation of films that can be used in 100% recyclable mono-material structures.
The final applications for which this new family of films is aimed are the same ones currently in use, i.e. for the production of “stand up pouch” and “lidding film” on PP trays, available in sealing, peelable, antifog and antistatic versions. The classic PET/CPP or PA/CPP coupling can be replaced by the single material structure BOPP/CPP or OPP/CPP.
We have a 500 kWh trigeneration plant capable of covering 30% of our average needs.
Thanks to a lithium bromide absorption unit having P=460 kWf, we can produce refrigerated water, used for cooling the production plants with consequent savings of around 100,000 kg/year of CO2 emitted.
We also encourage green mobility, making two columns available to our team for recharging electric vehicles.
This service is also available to all visitors, customers and suppliers, so that anyone can benefit from it.
For years we have been participating in the “PRS Green Label” circular network, i.e. a pallet recycling circuit to avoid waste.
Thanks to this collaboration we help to reduce the carbon footprint, reduce packaging waste and promote reuse, while reaping the benefits of wooden pallets from certified sustainable sources (PEFC or FSC).
