Production optimization

Constantly finding new way to optimize our manufacturing processes

Our products’ quality, safety, innovation, and overall sustainability attributes are a reflection of our research capabilities, business acumen and capacity to translate such vital concepts onto the manufacturing plants. 

Our Group is constantly finding new ways to optimize our production processes while maintaining our products quality and market competitiveness. Using the latest technologies available to gather and measure quality data for analysis, measuring, action planning and ultimately decision-making is how we approach our optimization strategies.

we are. Sustainable Supply Chain management

Products sustainability attributes and production optimization would not be viable without a clearly defined sustainable supply chain strategy.  
In the words of our Corporate Supply Chain Director, Mr. Gianmarco Guacci: “Procurement finalized the Group’s Sustainable Procurement Policy to source raw materials and services from suppliers who share our principles and corporate values. We drew up the Group’s Suppliers Code of Conduct to set the basis for our collaboration along the supply chain.
Sustainability is driving our development and strategy since a few years, but I have the feeling that 2021 has been the year of a real ‘call to action’ for us.  We have created a steering committee, which has been entrusted with the responsibility of managing our sustainability projects execution. We have designed and implemented new tools to help our R&D in measuring how sustainable our new products and projects are, and to allow our team to calculate the carbon footprint of our finished products.”

Our Sustainable Procurement Policy and Suppliers Code of Conduct can be found at https://www.lamberti.com/downloads/ 

 

A reliable and engaged Supply Chain is a key aspect of operating responsibly and safely in our business. It is therefore of utmost importance for us to source our raw materials, products, assets and services from suppliers who share our values and principles for doing business. We expect our suppliers to share the principles expressed in this Suppliers Code of Conduct through the “3P” approach: People, Planet and Prosperity.  We plan to conduct regular reviews based on sustainability risk assessments either by third-party evaluation or by on-site audits. Should a supplier fail to uphold any aspect of our Supplier Code of Conduct, we will develop corrective actions together with the relevant supplier to ensure that the same observes these standards in the future.

Our supply chain, as with most of our chemicals sector, features large amounts of raw materials and suppliers due to the number and complexity of products tailored for numerous and varied industries and applications. The constant volatility of the demand for materials significantly influences the supply chain management.  

% spent on local suppliers by type of raw material, 2021

Responsible material consumption and sustainable supply chain management are material topics for our organization therefore we focus on their impacts. Optimal organization of the supply chain is an essential asset for reaching objectives such as EcoVadis Gold status in which procurement strategy is a key metric.  Part of our procurement strategy and responsible management of our supply chain operations consists in prioritizing local suppliers.  Chemicals supplies to our global plants, in terms of average purchases, are 90% from same geographical area as our plant, while our packaging goods, using same metric, we reach 100% local suppliers in all areas

Total weight of materials used to produce and package primary products

Understanding the footprint of our operations in terms of materials used and their renewability is critical to manage its impact.  While in 2021 we used more raw materials and packaging compared with 2020, the percentage of renewable materials used on both raw materials and packaging categories increased as well.Our renewability ratio for raw materials used decreased slightly compared with the previous year (-2,2%), meanwhile in the packaging materials category, the renewability ratio remained unchanged vs. 2020.

Materials renewability ratios

Our share of recycled input materials decreased slightly in the petrochemical downstream output and packaging categories by -0,6% and -0,1% respectively.  Our oleochemical downstream output, however, managed to increase its share of recycle input materials by +0,3% vs. 2020.

Reporting year 2021 has been extremely critical for the whole supply chain due to worldwide shortages of many key raw materials, increasing number of Force Majeure declarations in the EU and US disrupting supply-demand equilibriums, and logistical challenges causing unexpected delays and cost increases in global shipping.