Environment

Sabaf actively contributes to protecting the environment and adopts a business model that combines economic objectives and environmental sustainability. The Group informs, encourages, and drives employees towards good environmental behavior.

Cooking technologies and climate transition

The Scope 3 emissions analysis shows that the most significant share of the Group's carbon footprint is related to the use of the products it sells (burners, components of gas hobs, which generate emissions in the combustion phase of cooking food). Currently, these emissions cannot be reduced directly since they depend on existing infrastructure and consumer choices. This represents a challenge for the definition of a climate transition plan, as the decarbonisation of the Sabaf Group depends not only on product efficiency, but also on the availability of alternative technologies in the domestic cooking sector.
It should be noted that about 30% of the people on our planet, i.e., 2.5 billion people, rely on solid fuels (wood, coal, dried dung, crop residues) for cooking.
Pollution from traditional fuels has major consequences for the health of users and households. The other 5.5 billion people cook using fossil fuels (mainly natural and LPG) or electricity.
There is a widespread perception that the environmental impact of electrical cooking is lower than that of gas cooking. 
Actually, the measurement of environmental impact cannot be separated from the consideration of the electricity production mix (fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear).
With respect to sustainable development, reducing the environmental impact of cooking food will necessarily require a two-pronged strategy:

• promote access to lower impact energy sources for the population still using solid fuels;
• favour electric cooking only where and when the energy production mix is characterised by a predominantly green energy component.

Product and process innovation and environmental sustainability 

High-efficiency burners     

For many years Sabaf has been offering state-of-the-art burners characterized by efficiencies higher than standard burners.         
In the range of standard single ring flame sizes, since early 2000, Sabaf has introduced four series of burners (Series 3, AE, AEO, and HE) to the market, all characterized by high energy efficiency up to 68%.
In order to expand the existing special (multiple flame ring) burner series, Sabaf created the DCC burner series. This burner series is characterized by an energy efficiency of over 60%, the highest currently available on the market for multiple flame ring burners.  In order to meet the needs of the Chinese market, Sabaf also created DCC burners with a brass flame-spreader ring that carries an efficiency of more than 68%, a result previously not achieved in the market.
High-efficiency burners account for 30% of the total burners produced by Sabaf.

Light alloy valves

Aluminum alloy valves offer several advantages compared to brass valves. Some of the benefits are the elimination of the hot molding phase of brass, lower lead content in the product, lower weight, and consequent reduction in consumption for packaging and transport.
Light alloy valves now account for 94% of the valves produced by Sabaf.

Metal washing

In the production process of valves, it is essential to wash metals in several stages. Sabaf uses a washing system based on modified alcohol, a solvent that is redistillable, therefore wholly recyclable. The environmental impact and operating costs of this solvent, including the emissions and production of special waste, have been completely eliminated.
Sabaf S.p.A uses this efficient and sustainable technology in the washing of metal since 2013. This technology has also been used by Sabaf do Brasil since 2016, Sabaf Turkey since 2018 and Sabaf India since 2023.

Key Performance Indicators

Water consumption

*The water consumption trend reflects a refinement in the discharge estimation method. Applying this new method to 2024 updates the consumption volume to 11,441 m³.

Resource inflows

*Certain stamped steel parts, classified as raw materials in 2024, have been reclassified in this report as components under the heading 'Iron and steel components'.

Waste