Panguaneta – an Italian company based in Sabbioneta, near Mantua – aims at sustainable development in every area of the supply chain, through concrete actions: the individual work phases are certified and controlled and have already been included for a long time in the practice of circular economy.
The process of certification and calculation of Panguaneta‘s “Carbon Footprint” for the year 2019 – carried out with the LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) methodology – has shown that in recent years the total emissions of greenhouse gases have decreased not only thanks to the modernization of the production cycle, but also thanks to the start-up of a modern and efficient biomass thermal power plant. The latter allowed the abatement of methane combustion emissions leading to a reduction of direct Co2eq emissions of approximately 35 percent, going from approximately 10,000 tons in 2014 to 6,399 tons in 2018.
This milestone confirms Panguaneta’s commitment to the entire production process, which in 2018 also obtained the Environmental Product Declaration (Epd): an important tool that affects the entire life cycle of the product (raw material, cutting , bonding, transport, emission values, waste management) useful for architects and designers in choosing the best products to meet the most rigorous environmental standards.
The inventory of greenhouse gas emissions was made in accordance with the standard (UNI EN ISO 14064-1: 2012) ISO 14064 using a methodology for reporting greenhouse gases based on the guidelines of the GHG Protocol, drawn up by World Resources Institute and recognized by leading national programs.
This calculation will be completed in the course of 2020 and subsequently the company will be committed to extending the inventory of greenhouse gases to the sources of indirect emissions present throughout the product value chain from a Life Cycle Perspective to identify any critical issues. Panguaneta also intends to prepare a three-year plan to reduce GHG emissions and compensate for residual greenhouse gas emissions from sources directly controlled by the company to reach the final goal of obtaining the Carbon Neutral certification of the entire company.