Buzzi Unicem reached the best sustainability performance in Italy for the Construction industry, with a score comparable to the best practice of the European companies and above the European average, based on the components of the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 index. This is what it appears from the presentation conference of the "Benchmarking study about sustainability in the Italian companies" held in Milan last 24 January.
It is four years that SAM Group, Sustainable Asset Management, publishes this benchmarking study, in collaboration with Osif (Observatory on Sustainability of the Company and Finance) together with Goodwill, Forum of the Third Sector and Humanity Onlus (University Luiss Guido Carli). The global analysis is composed of companies from 11 different sectors, with a minimum number of 5 companies per each sector.
From the study it results that the Italian companies stand out for a good management of the environmental subjects, an appropriate customer care and right standards for suppliers. Even those companies, among which ours, that are not included in the 2,500 companies with higher capitalization of the Dow Jones Global Index (DJGI), took part in the analysis and therefore, on voluntary base and without any short term financial target, gave all the info required by the questionnaire, showing a strong management and prosecution will of a sustainable business.
A further confirmation of our sustainable course is the achievement, November 21st 2005, of the Environmental Certification in compliance with the norm UNI EN ISO 14001:2004 for the plant and the quarries of Siniscola (NU). This production site in Sardinia is now to be numbered among several other works already certified under the above mentioned norm.