2 | Rapporto di sostenibilita? ING:Layout 1 - Fiat SpA

Raw materials
EN1 (core) Material used by weight or volume.
Annually, Fiat Group purchases are valued 33 billion euros,
85% of which for direct materials and the remainder for indirect
materials, services, plants and machinery. 86% of direct
material procurement is carried out through purchasing
organisations present in Europe and North America, and the
remainder in Latin America. Purchases of direct materials are
as follows: 51% metals, 26% electrical and 23% chemicals.
EN2 (core) Percentage of materials used that are recycled input
materials.
On September 18, 2000, EU Directive 2000/53/EC was adopted
by the European Parliament and the Council of the European
Union in order to prevent waste from vehicles by promoting
the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of end-of-life
vehicles (ELV), and to improve the environmental performance
of all economic operators involved in the life cycle of vehicles,
and especially carmakers, dismantlers and shredders.
Since then, nearly all European Union member states have
transposed the ELV Directive into their own national law.
Current legislation establishes that the last owner of an
end-of-life vehicle can deliver it to an authorised treatment
facility at no cost, and is applicable starting on January 1, 2007
to all vehicles in circulation. In this connection, European
regulation has made vehicle manufacturers responsible for
organising dismantling networks where the last owner of an
end-of-life vehicle can deliver it for treatment at no charge.
The form these networks take may vary from country to
country. Thus, setting up an efficient network with high quality
standards and sufficient geographical coverage is the sine qua
non for dealing effectively with end-of-life vehicles. Both
independently and in cooperation with other operators
involved in recycling, Fiat Group Automobiles created networks
of dismantlers throughout Europe where all vehicles of its
brands are collected at no cost to the owner. The Fiat networks
comply with applicable regulations, and they will be
continuously monitored to guarantee that they provide both
the geographical coverage and the quality standards required
by the law. Fiat Group Automobiles has made available to its
customers adequate communication through the Internet,
multi-language call centres, owner’s handbooks, and
signboards identifying authorised treatment facilities.
End-of-life vehicles contain many different types of material:
steel, plastics, rubber and a whole list of others. In Italy,
around 1.5 million vehicles are scrapped every year, with
over 1.2 million tons of material that must be disposed of.
These figures clearly highlight the value inherent in these ELVs.
For today’s automakers, then, producing vehicles for truly
sustainable mobility is not just a question of reducing tailpipe
emissions or investing in alternative propulsion systems,
it also means designing vehicles and dealing with them at the
end of their life cycle in a way that ensures maximum recovery
of materials, maximum optimisation of energy, and the
48 Performance indicators Environmental performance indicators
Annual procurement volumes by category
Direct materials 85%
Indirect materials, services,
equipment and machinery 15%
Annual procurement volumes of direct materials
broken down by geographic area
Europe and North America 86%
Latin America 14%
Annual procurement volumes of direct materials
broken down by product type
Metals 51%
Electricals 26%
Chemicals 23%