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

 

Gross scopes 1, 2, 3 and total GHG emissions

  2024

Scope 1 GHG emissions

 

Gross Scope 1 GHG emissions (tCO2eq)

11,312

Scope 2 GHG emissions

 

Gross location-based Scope 2 GHG emissions (tCO2eq)

12,074

Gross market-based Scope 2 GHG emissions (tCO2eq)

15,618

Significant Scope 3 GHG emissions

 

Total gross indirect (Scope 3) GHG emissions (tCO2eq)

25,563,260

Of which :

 

11. Use of sold products (tCO2eq)

25,352,041

Total GHG emissions

 

Total GHG emissions (location-based) (tCO2eq)

25,586,646

Total GHG emissions (market-based) (tCO2eq)

25,590,191

 

Water consumption

(m3)

2024
Total water consumption 35,837
Total water recycled and reused 5,570

 

Resource inflows

(t)

2024
Used of which from recycled
Raw materials 32,021 17,352 54.2%
Steel 21,607 7,944 36.8%
Aluminium alloys 9,877 8,893 90.0%
Brass 527 515 97.7%
Other 10 - -
Packaging 2,425 1,117 46.1%
Wood 1,073 15 1.4%
Cardboard 956 749 78.3%
Plastic 396 353 89.1%
Semi-finished goods or purchased components 5,281 333 6.3%
Associated process materials 654 - -
Total 40,381 18,802 46.6%

 

Waste

(t) 2024
Total amount of waste generated 12,989
Hazardous waste diverted from disposal 459
Non-hazardous waste diverted from disposal 9,539
Hazardous waste directed to disposal 2,514
Non-hazardous waste directed to disposal 477
   
Non-recycled waste 2,991
Percentage of non-recycled waste 23%
Hazardous waste 2,973
Radioactive waste 0

 

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