Carbon Footprint

Raffmetal is committed to monitoring and reducing the environmental impact of its operations, promoting awareness-raising practices and transparency

For Raffmetal, calculating its Carbon Footprint is essential to understand its environmental impact and identify areas of excellence.
This process not only supports continuous improvement, but also represents an opportunity to communicate sustainability actions transparently and responsibly to stakeholders—strengthening the company’s market positioning and creating competitive advantages.

What is Carbon Footprint?

The term ‘Carbon Footprint’ refers to the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the environment, contributing to global warming. In an industrial context, it is a metric that expresses— in CO₂ equivalents— the total greenhouse gas emissions generated over the life cycle of a product or an organisation.

When discussing carbon footprint, it is essential to distinguish between measuring the carbon footprint of individual products and that resulting from an organisation’s overall activities.

Carbon Footprint of a product

It quantifies the greenhouse gas emissions generated by a product over its entire life cycle. In this calculation, a company may choose a more or less comprehensive boundary: **GATE TO GATE** focuses only on part of the production process and excludes some key aspects—such as raw material supply and upstream transport—which are instead included in **CRADLE TO GATE**.

In addition, Raffmetal is the first company in the refining sector to have obtained, in 2023, EPD certification (Environmental Product Declaration) across its entire alloy range.

Carbon footprint
of an organisation

Calculated in accordance with ISO 14064—obtained by Raffmetal in 2023—this represents the greenhouse gas emissions inventory, accounting for all emissions associated with the company’s activities over a calendar year across all its operations, using the so-called “scopes”:

Scope 1 covers direct emissions, generally referring to emissions from the use of fossil sources;
Scope 2 covers indirect emissions related to the generation and consumption of electricity;
Scope 3 includes all other indirect emissions, such as raw material purchases, transport, home-to-work commuting, finished product distribution and its use during the year considered.

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