Measuring and clearly communicating the sustainable strategies planned and deployed in the companies, in compliance with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 2030, highlights to the stakeholders the commitment to invest in a business plan finalized on the long term and prove to be clearly focused on the company’s position in 2050 or 2070. In order to develop a really sustainable company, it is essential to analyze in depth the whole productive chain, helped by an expert on the themes of circular economy and integrated sustainability. Only with these tools, indeed, it is possible to measure the relative impact of every step of the productive cycle and optimize the entire process: reducing consumption of natural sources, recovering waste, reusing byproducts, making processes more efficient and measuring the social impact of the activity on the local community and on the stakeholder’s group.
Sustainability and steel: a general introduction
Someday, not so far in the future, the commercial director of a steel company will present to their customers sustainable-related topics and themes before speaking of product and prices. In many markets and industries aboard this is already true: the topics concerning environmental sustainability of products and process often means more than price list. Indeed, in context characterized by an always more fierce business competition it’s getting more clear year after year that economic stability, proactive attention to sustainable management and social protection, transparency and good relationships with communities and stakeholders are more remunerative in the mid and long term. The companies that have already gathered data and information and realized specific interventions to improve their impact on the sustainable development have a better chance to take advantage of the growing wave that is transforming the manufacturing business. Soon, this will allow them to turn a profit of all the years dedicated to monitoring and definition of sustainable strategies. International authorities as the World Steel Association have long since assessed and insisted on the fact that this is the only way to keep a strong and winning position on the global market, now and in the future.