SUSTAINABILITY IN NUMBERS: EPTA PRESENTS ITS ACHIEVEMENTS FOR 2024

The Integrated Report 2024, published in the first quarter of 2025, bears witness to Epta's ongoing commitment to combining corporate growth with environmental, social and economic responsibility. Through transparent and timely reporting, the document delivers an overview of the year’s main achievements, highlighting the progress made in decarbonisation, energy efficiency, people empowerment and developing increasingly sustainable solutions.

An opportunity to reaffirm Epta's role as a Green Transition Enabler and its winning model geared towards a virtuous approach for the creation of shared value.

"In an increasingly complex social and economic scenario influenced by a multitude of interconnected factors, Epta is demonstrating how the Group's strategy strikes the perfect balance between short-term competitiveness, medium-to-long-term sustainability and the reduction of social and environmental impacts, allowing it to achieve synergetic, self-sustaining results in financial and ESG spheres," explains Marco Nocivelli, Epta's CEO. 

EFFECTIVENESS, EFFICIENCY AND ETHICS: EPTA'S ESG FORMULA

Underpinning the Group's goals, the three pillars Effectiveness, Efficiency and Ethics embody Epta's ESG approach . 

In detail, the Group strengthened its environmental policy in the light of the new purpose of 'Preserving our planet with conscious innovation. Together.', making major investments into research and the development of 100 per cent natural solutions, worth EUR 27.7 million in 2024 alone, and new emission offsetting projects. These include reforestation activities, adopting sustainable mobility with electric or hybrid vehicles, more conscious sourcing from certified renewable sources, and the increase in self-generation of energy, by almost 4 million kWh in 2024 alone, with a total of 19,400 m² of photovoltaic systems installed across the Group's production facilities.   

In 2024, with the intention of making an active contribution to countering climate change, Epta also embarked on a process of mapping and monitoring the company's carbon footprint, for which it is committed to reducing CO₂ emissions by a further 55% by 2027, minimising water consumption and completing the transition to a circular economy, as a result of which more than 95% of waste is currently recycled.   

Last but not least, Epta’s sustainability is also reflected in the professional empowerment of all EptaPeople, and building inclusive cooperation between individuals. This is also thanks to its far-reaching training programme, totalling more than 125,000 hours, and the EPTAcademy project developed with SDA Bocconi, which provides valuable updates on macroeconomic and entrepreneurship issues. 

Epta has received awards from leading institutes and organisations for its sustainability performance, and continues to steer the commercial refrigeration industry as a whole towards full climate neutrality with a conscious, responsible approach.