Guala Closures’ commitment to sustainability has today become a central theme for our activities and our choices. We firmly believe that the objective of our work must be to create shared value, which encompasses the three areas of sustainability (environmental, social and economic).

 

THE ENVIRONMENT

Guala Closures Group,  as a large international organisation, seeks to meet the expectations of its stakeholders by reporting on its commitmentsand on the environmental performance of its business activities and by undertaking to manage them in a responsible way.

 

The scarcity of natural resources, pollution, and climatic change are extremely important issues for Guala Closures , which influence a large part of the company’s strategic decisions.

 

Back in 2008, Guala Closures issued an Environmental Policy Document , which reiterates its commitment to ensure that environmental sustainability will play a key role in operational planning and in the management of all of the Group’s business activities worldwide.

 

Guala Closures intends to gradually extend the application of the ISO 14001 standard to all of its operations. At the end of 2014, 3 production plants (12%) had obtained this certification for their environmental management systems with a view to continuous improvement. The approach recommended by the ISO 14001 standard facilitates the continuous control of environmental performance.

 

Monitoring the Group’s environmental policies focuses on 6 highly important environmental indicators: energy consumption, raw materials employed, water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, waste production and transport, for which short, medium and long term objectives for improvement have been established

 

THE SOCIAL DIMENSION

Guala Closures has adopted a Code of Ethics since 2008, which represents the “Company Constitutional Charter”. A charter of the rights and the moral duties, which states the ethical-social responsibilities of the Company and of every member of the organisation. Through the Code of Ethics, Guala Closures Group establishes and specifies the values and the principles that guide the Group’s activities and its relations with employees, consultants, customers, suppliers, shareholders, institutions and all other stakeholders.

Guala Closures Group focuses on three priorities:

• Health: to protect the health and safety of its employees;
• Training: to carefully manage career paths through continuous training;
• Diversity: to respect and safeguard diversity, it operates and manages its employees respecting their cultural differences. Over the year, we have diversified rapidly and expanded geographically on a large scale.

The over 4,000 Group employees (as at 31-12-2014), come from 5 continents, from regions and cultures that are very different to each other. We are working to ensure that this diversityincreasingly becomes a strength, a growth andsuccess factor for our company.

 

THE ECONOMY

Being a world leader in the aluminium closures market means creating value, profit and growthto meet the expectations of investors. This objective can be achieved in a responsible way, by also contributing to the development of local economies; Guala Closures Group has set itself several key economic objectives:

1. To consolidate and develop its leadershipposition at international level.

2. To continuously develop research, innovationand product quality, anticipating the markets.

3. Growing means identifying and responding to the business risks and opportunities linked to sustainability.

4. To partner up with customers to design new products.

5. To fight against counterfeiting.

 

Our tangible commitment started in 2011 with our Italian plants. We sought to build a benchmark model which could then be gradually extended to all of the Group’s branches, by combining our winning values such as excellence and innovation with sustainability.

 

We believe that people are fundamental to the success of this programme; all of the human resources in all company departments are a pillar of our programme and we believe that their involvement is fundamental, achieved throughtraining and internal communication,essential tools to which we direct our efforts and investments.

 

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