#Sustainability

2025-11-13

RadiciGroup: 21st Sustainability Report published

Over twenty years of tangible commitment to transparency and accountability

RadiciGroup has published its 21st Sustainability Report, covering the year 2024, confirming more than two decades of transparency and measurement in the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. From its first Social Report in 2004 to the current reporting aligned with the GRI Universal Standards, the Group is now preparing for its next challenge: the adoption of the criteria that will be set out by the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

Between 2020 and 2024, RadiciGroup invested €277 million to strengthen competitiveness and sustainability, including €44 million in 2024 alone. Environmental investments totaled €3.3 million, focused on energy efficiency, emission reduction, and the introduction of the best available technologies. Two years ago, the Group defined “From Earth to Earth”, a sustainability roadmap outlining objectives and concrete actions in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) fields to be achieved by 2030. And 2024 marks the achievement of several important goals, including the reduction of direct emissions (Scope 1), which have been cut by 81% compared to 2011. In addition the use of electricity from renewable sources (63.5%)—with a growing share self-produced—together with the circular management of water, materials, and waste, achieving a packaging recovery rate close to 100%, testify to an increasingly sustainable industrial model and mark the achievement of further objectives set by RadiciGroup in its From Earth to Earth roadmap.

For the first time, the 2024 report includes the calculation of the Group’s Scope 3 emissions, in line with the GHG Protocol guidelines. Future challenges will involve increasingly extensive and accurate measurement of the value chain footprint, through a shared, synergistic, and collaborative effort involving RadiciGroup, its suppliers, and its customers.

On the social front, the year closed with a significant improvement in health and safety performance and with new training and professional development initiatives tailored to the different cultural contexts in which the Group operates. RadiciGroup also continued to promote an inclusive work environment based on respect for human rights.

To RadiciGroup, sustainability also means product innovation, through the use of recycled and bio-based materials, solution dyeing to reduce water and energy consumption, and low-carbon-footprint solutions measured through Life Cycle Assessment. Thanks to its know-how in nylon recycling, the Group promotes eco-design and embraces the circular economy model, with the aim of enhancing every phase of the production cycle in collaboration with the value chain.

From a governance perspective, the Group’s management systems continued to strengthen its systemic and integrated approach to ESG topics and ensure increasingly comprehensive traceability of information. Finally, digitalization is confirmed as an enabler of the company’s strategy, with advanced systems for data management, production efficiency, and cybersecurity.

Read the 2024 Sustainability Report:

https://www.radicigroup.com/en/documentation/corporate/report

Twenty years of Sustainability Report for RadiciGroup

The RadiciGroup Sustainability Report reaches an important milestone this year: twenty years have in fact passed since the Group published its first Social Report in 2004, qualifying it as one of the pioneering companies in the realisation of voluntary non-financial reporting. The document measures the Group’s achievements and the actions it has taken to reduce its environmental impact, respect social values, and implement good business management practices.

Geogreen inaugurates a new photovoltaic plant: over 5,000 solar panels to produce 5.5 million kWh/year of clean energy

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Hohenstein publishes 2025 Sustainability Report

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Global Standard gGmbH launches second public consultation for GRTS Draft 2 for the textile industry (1–30 April 2026)

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Textile Exchange publishes cotton Life Cycle Assessment study to strengthen impact data

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Italian Textile Machinery heads to Geneva for Index 2026

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