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Sustainable development 73
Environment
Eco-production: Ongoing improvement in factories
As far as our environmental policy is concerned, according to Group data 79% of our
factories are ISO 14001* certified (excluding Imusa and Asia Fan). New entities from acquisitions are
also committed to this process. The Omegna (Italy) site was certified in 2011 and the Canonsburg (USA)
and Supor (China) factories are aiming for certification in 2012.
EFFYPACK: SMALL CHANGES, MAJOR EFFECTS
“The EffyPACK project, launched in 2010 by the Logistics Department, aims to optimise the loading
of transport units to reduce CO 2 emissions. The principle is to involve logistical constraints (pallet,
lorry and container dimensions) from the product design stage onwards. Standard rules have been
defined and circulated to everyone involved in the process. In this way, by modifying the dimensions
of Actifry packaging by a few millimetres, the Is-sur-Tille (France) site has managed to increase its lorry
load rate by 20% and reduce its CO 2 emissions by the same amount. EffyPACK was deployed worldwide in 2011
and also covers sub-contracted products.”
Minh Huong Nguyen Le, Analyst in the Logistics Department
Eco-logistics: Lower CO 2 emissions
In order to reduce CO 2 emissions linked with the transport of products and components,
Groupe SEB is continuing to improve the load rate of transport units and to develop alternative
solutions to road transport. This is the case in Brazil, for example, between the São Paulo factory in
the south and Recife in the northeast - 52% of the volume of products, which until now have all been
transported by road, were transported by sea in 2011. The Group has also continued to improve
the reliability of its transport carbon footprint on an international level.
IT equipment is also involved...
Group efforts to limit our impact on the environment are also applied to our IT systems.
Operations have been set up on a worldwide scale to encourage the sharing of printers and the
adoption of good printing practices. In France, these operations have enabled us to reduce the number
of printers by 10% in one year and to reduce printing costs by more than 40%. Another global initiative
is the pooling of IT servers to use fewer machines, which took place between January 2010 and April
2012. This should enable us to save around 1,330 MWh per year, which is the equivalent of the annual
energy consumption of 190 French families.
PONT-EVÊQUE FACTORY
(FRANCE):
96% OF COMPONENTS
TRANSPORTED BY BARGE
OR RAIL FROM PORTS
*see glossary p 84