Corporate Social Responsibility
For the Iris Ceramica Group, the Sustainability Report is an important message with strategic value, a transparent account of the guidelines it has adopted in the areas of social responsibility and sustainability policies. The report has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, and specifically the latest version currently in use, known as the “GRI Standards, Core Option".
The decision to report our Group’s initiatives and results in financial, social, environmental and governance terms stems from its specific mission and reaffirms its commitment to creating shared value. This beginning of this process dates back 60 years, when our Founder decided to stay a step ahead when it came to sustainability objectives, formulating the equation ecology = economy.
Today the necessity and urgency of this sustainability journey begun ahead of its time have been confirmed, and the milestone of zero-emission production achieved in 2018 stands us in even better stead than our ability to spread a culture of beauty, reaffirming our approach to manufacturing, in which protecting the environment in which we live is a top priority.
Each day we strive to create a world in which humankind’s economy and habitat come together to create a new level of wellbeing, with a constantly increasing focus on local communities. Our non-financial report, prepared according to the GRI Standards, helps us to be aware that true progress is the result of shared values and the assumption of collective responsibility that extends to all stakeholders.
From this perspective, dialog with stakeholders becomes the heart of our analysis, which through discourse generates vitality and objectives to be developed together in the immediate future, underscoring the meaning and scope of all investments in collective responsibility.
Report 2021
Iris Ceramica Group presents its 4th Sustainability Report.
The 4th Sustainability Report bears witness to Iris Ceramica Group's constant commitment to adopting a sustainable development model through concrete and high-value actions for today and tomorrow in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) fields.
Ethics, transparency and communication are the values guiding the preparation of this document, aiming to engage and improve dialogue with stakeholders.
The Group’s commitment is also expressed through the activities supporting the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) integrated into the ESG strategy as fundamental, concrete and measurable references.
Report 2020
Iris Ceramica Group presents a its third Sustainability Report. For the Group, this report has a dual purpose: to communicate transparently with its main stakeholders and to strengthen a strategy that is increasingly integrated with social responsibility and sustainability policies, pursuing some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted by the UN as part of the 2030 Agenda. The data refer to the year 2020 while the full version published online shows the data for the three-year period 2018-2020.
Report 2019
The Iris Ceramica Group's 2017-2019 Sustainability Report confirms the necessity and urgency of the journey towards responsibility on which we have embarked, spurred on by a clear understanding of our mission. The current scenario is replete with incontrovertible signs that strengthen our resolve to continue to do better, and the goal of ZERO EMISSION production recently achieved is a more important result than any commercial objective. The publication of this second report is characterized by an awareness that true progress is the result of shared values and the assumption of collective responsibility that extends to all stakeholders. In particular, in order to improve relationships with our various stakeholders, this report has been expanded to include instruments dedicated to measuring and improving the performances of all members of the supply chain in terms of sustainability parameters. With this in mind, we decided to organize a multistakeholder engagement process, during which we discussed and assigned weights to the various material issues: an opportunity for dialog and participation that meant opening up to various groups to seek suggestions and feedback that would shape our medium- and long-term strategic planning. At the same time, a roundtable was also formed for discussion and analysis of the Iris Ceramica Group’s supply chain, in order to understand the level of reporting achieved by our suppliers, because only a supply chain that is truly oriented towards sustainability enables all its individual members to be fully sustainable.