Roelmi Hpc's sustainability passes through innovation, people and nature
Nature, innovation and people: these are the pillars on which the social and environmental responsibility of Roelmi Hpc, an Italian company specialising in the development and production of functional ingredients for nutraceutics and cosmetics, is based. The company has published its Sustainability Report 2024, the year in which it consolidated its industrial and organisational growth, closing the year with a turnover of 16.9 million euros, thus confirming the company's economic solidity and its ability to sustain continuous investments in innovation and development.
The year was characterised by important strategic transactions, including the opening of three new companies - Roelmi Korea, Roelmi Botanicals and Roelmi Biotech - and the merger of Brasca Industrial, which strengthened the group's control of production technologies and the integration of industrial expertise. Roelmi Hpc and its spin-off SynBalance have also adopted the legal form of a Benefit Company, formalising their commitment to pursue, in addition to profit, aims of common benefit for people, the environment and the community.
The group's sustainability strategy - contained in the Nip programme - Nature Is People, is based on three pillars - Nature, Innovation and People - and translates sustainability into concrete, measurable and shared actions within the organisation and along the production chain. Nip is also the cultural and operational reference for the definition of the 2025-2027 sustainable development objectives: the environmental impact reduction objectives will concern the monitoring and reduction of energy consumption with a saving already estimated at 420 MWh/year and the increase in the capacity of photovoltaic systems by 2027. In addition to this, water consumption will be controlled, with a 12% decrease compared to 2023 thanks to recycling and reuse systems for process water, and CO₂ emissions will be reduced, with the definition of a decarbonisation plan linked to procurement, including suppliers and main products purchased.
The development of sustainable ingredients will focus on the valorisation of by-products from Italian supply chains, the calculation of the carbon footprint of selected products and targeted investments in new production facilities based on green chemistry, biofermentation and botanical extraction, integrating circular economy principles.
As far as social responsibility is concerned, the group aims at strengthening health and safety policies, with the provision of individual training hours and health prevention initiatives, without forgetting structured welfare programmes and the start of the path towards obtaining gender equality certification (UNI/PdR 125:2022).
