SUSTAINABILITY - PORFIRICA

The Factory takes various measures to ensure their products are produced with Environmental impact in mind. For comprehensive information on this, please refer to these links;

• https://www.coem.it/en/company/sustainability/
• https://www.coem.it/en/sustainability/iso-17889-1-environmental-certification/

The Porfirica Collection uses a minimum of 20% content of recycled materials and meets the requirements of ISO 17889-1, which establishes sustainability criteria for ceramic surfaces with the aim of providing design professionals, contractors and consumers with a verifiable and internationally valid standard for identifying product sustainability according to economic, environmental and social sustainability criteria. This is achieved by the factory complying with a series of actions and measures throughout the product life cycle including but not limited to;

• sourcing raw materials locally
• recycled waste content
• use of raw material suppliers that adhere to environmental policy systems
• implementation of Environmental Management System (EMS) and Energy Efficiency Management System (EEMS)
• use of systems for recovering the heat from kilns
• use of renewable energy in the production line
• monitoring of specific fuel consumption for kilns
• monitoring of dust and fluorine emissions into the atmosphere
• recycling and reuse of process waste
• separate collection and recycling of materials used in the production process
• monitoring of specific water consumption and waste-water discharge during the production cycle
• use of packaging made from recycled materials

See this link for more comprehensive information on this topic - https://www.coem.it/en/sustainability/iso-17889-1-environmental-certification/