#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

Geogreen and RadiciGroup are speeding up their photovoltaic development with the inauguration of a new solar plant in the Municipality of Isola Dovarese in the Province of Cremona. Participating at the official ribbon cutting were the Geogreen shareholders including President Angelo Radici, the mayor of the Municipality of Isola Dovarese and other local officials.

RadiciGroup teams up with Sitip and Tessitura Vignetta to foster more conscious consumer choices

A navy blue nylon dress, providing elegance and comfort to the wearer while simultaneously highlighting the entire Made in Italy production chain: this is the new project RadiciGroup is presenting at Milano Unica, from July 9th to 11th at the Innovation Forum (HALL 3 Booth IN24) promoted by the TexClubTec section of Sistema Moda Italia.

The region of renewable raw materials: Central German Alliance for Bioplastics

The development of sustainable plastic solutions is rapidly gaining importance in light of global environ- mental pollution, dwindling fossil resources and ambitious climate protection targets. As part of the re- gional alliance RUBIO, which brings together 18 partners from central Germany and the Berlin-Branden- burg area, the bio-based and biodegradable plastic polybutylene succinate (PBS) was comprehensively investigated, starting with the raw material, through the manufacturing process, to industrial application.

Peak Sustainability Ventures & Arvind launch India’s first industrial-scale cotton-stalk torrefaction project, decarbonizing textile manufacturing in Gujarat

Arvind Limited, one of India’s leading textile-to-retail conglomerates, and Peak Sustainability Ventures, a Mumbai-based global climate investment firm, have entered into a partnership to build a large-scale cotton stalk torrefaction plant in Gujarat, with a capacity of 40,000+ tonnes per year, to accelerate Arvind’s decarbonization goals and promote torrefaction at scale in India.

Navis TubeTex announces U.S. partnership with Icomatex

Navis TubeTex, a global leader in advanced dyeing and finishing machinery solutions, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Icomatex (www.icomatex.com), a respected European manufacturer of high-quality stenters and textile finishing equipment. Under this agreement, Navis TubeTex will exclusively represent the Icomatex stenter line in the United States.

ADVANSA launches ADVA®tex: A new step toward textile-to-textile recycling

ADVANSA has introduced ADVA®tex, a new filling fibre made entirely from recycled pre-consumer textile waste, positioning the material as a significant step forward in textile-to-textile (T2T) recycling. The fibre is designed for use in duvets, pillows, mattresses, and furniture applications and is available in three versions.

KARL MAYER celebrates 35 years of EL pattern drive

KARL MAYER is celebrating an anniversary this year: on 30 November 1990, the first warp knitting machine with electronic guide bar control, the KS 4 EL, was delivered – another milestone for patterning. As early as 1980, the SU gearbox with the MRS42SU had initiated the transition from mechanical chains to digital data.