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The EPD, verified by an independent body, provides quantitative data on environmental impacts across the entire product life cycle, enabling transparent, objective, and comparable assessments. This publication is part of Silcart’s ongoing effort to expand its range of environmental product declarations, with the aim of making reliable and verifiable information available to designers and stakeholders.

Today, companies are required to meet increasingly high standards in terms of social responsibility, ESG criteria, safety and wellbeing. In this context, ISO 45001 represents an essential support tool for Silcart, helping the company navigate a complex regulatory landscape, reduce risks and improve the internal climate by fostering employee engagement. This approach strengthens the company’s competitiveness and reinforces a culture focused on prevention and shared responsibility—the same principles that guided the entire journey toward certification.

Achieving this certification guarantees that our internal collecting system, analyzing, and calculating environmental data is structured, verified, and continuously compliant with international standards. This significant result allows us to: – Accelerate the publication of new EPDs across our entire product range; – Ensure the highest reliability and comparability of the information; – Strengthen the credibility of our sustainability performance. The journey has already begun with the publication of the first EPDs for our Glass Xtreme and Stoneglass product families. The EPD Process Certification provides the methodological basis to extend this level of transparency to all our products. For Silcart, transparency in environmental data is a fundamental requirement for the future of our industry.

“We want to offer all our employees competitive conditions not only from the economic point of view, but also from the point of view of work-life balance” -says Giovanni Faotto, president of Gruppo Silcart- “The work engages an important part of our daily life: It is our responsibility to guarantee workers and their families safety and serenity, in a period marked by inflation and high prices, and at the same time to provide them with adequate safeguards for health and well-being. People are the main asset of every company”.

Also Silcart S.p.a. of Carbonera resorted to the installation of a photovoltaic system composed of 953 modules which together produce 562 kWh per year, approximately 30% of the energy needed for the production line with which Silcart produces building and construction materials industry in general that exports all over the world.

Silcart Spa, a company specialized in construction materials from Treviso, is the manufacturer of Patrix, a coating for insulation panels that can offer several advantages in terms of energy savings, sound insulation, and fire protection. To choose it for the realization of its products, Puren, a historical company of Lake Constance, on the border between Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, which participated in the construction of a new residential village consisting of 180 apartments in Überlingen, a German city located in the land of Baden-Württemberg. «Silcart continues to affirm its vocation as an international company, able to compete with the big players on the main European markets – said Giovanni Faotto President of Silcart Spa – We are proud to have contributed with our materials to the realization of a project that looks at the world just as we will do it: with the looking to the future…».

This is the vision that has led the company to the development of an innovative insulation board coating material. This innovative material can limit the damages resulting from adverse weather conditions, combining efficiency and sustainability. The new product highlights even more the green and innovative vocation of the company which over the years has obtained various certifications: ISO 50001 “Energy Management Systems”, ReMade in Italy and ISCC Plus. Silcart has also developed and used sustainable materials to protect the environment and its resources. Ocean Felt -sustainable bituminous membrane with non-woven polypropylene made from recycled post-industrial material and the polyester carrier made from 100% recycled post-consumption plastic, “Prevented Ocean Plastic” certified- is the result of the company’s vision. In addition, the company has installed two green energy production plants: a 953-module photovoltaic system and a thermal power plant.

On June 17, 2023, Silcart Holding organized a team-building day open to all its employees, including subsidiaries Elements and Cabomet. The event is part of Silcart’s corporate welfare program, which has already introduced several tools for its workers. The Presidente of Region Veneto Luca Zaia forwarded, through a message of congratulations, greatings for the high success for the important goal of half a century of activity composed by history, tradition, local origins, skills and innovation. “A recognition,” Zaia wrote, “that describes a brand that represents an ambassador of Made in Italy in the world, but at the same time is linked to its Venetian roots, since your company has contributed and still contributes- to the growth of our region.

International Sustainability & Carbon Certification for some product lines: synthetic undertile membranes and underlays, uncoupling membranes, plastic and synthetic facings for insulation panels. This is a voluntary product certification scheme, or rather “supply chain” certification, which ensures product sustainability, traceability and above all identification of the raw materials used throughout the production and supply chain. This is one of the objectives set and achieved by Silcart Spa to promote innovation in the sector, enhancing the sustainability and circularity of processes and products.

You can find out more on the Remade in Italy website.

You can find more information on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development.