Climate change has focused attention on the importance of preserving and caring for our planet, by making compliance with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement a top priority.
It is with this in mind that in recent years Armony, which has been environmentally-conscious since its establishment, has made specific commitments in terms of reducing its environmental impact, and continues to implement projects that enhance its ESG criteria and corporate responsibility strategy, in order to build an increasingly sustainable future.
We protect the environment for ourselves and next generation
An innovative packaging system: protection and sustainability
The innovative packaging system used for Armony kitchens, that focuses on safety during transport, is a radical step forward in ensuring the furniture more efficient and sustainable protection.
By the end of 2025, we intend to do away with plastic and polystyrene corner-pieces and replace them with pressboard ones, which are far more compact and positioned around all sides of the furniture, to ensure constant protection and new scope for recycling.
Production sites and solar farms
Armony’s environmental-consciousness originates from the heart of the company, its production sites. Since 2023, the Caneva site has been operating a 900 Kw solar farm consisting of 1656 panels, which ensures cuts in energy consumption and annual savings of 408000 kg of CO2, while storing energy and making it available to the local community.
Mobility and sustainability
By the end of 2026, Armony is committed to completing the full-electric conversion of its vehicle fleet, which currently has 11 full-electric and plug-in hybrid company vehicles, powered by a system of charging points at all company sites.
Furthermore, the whole of Armony’s workforce is recruited from the local community. This is a consequence not only of the company’s aptitude, as outlined in the second chapter of Armony Equa – Our People, for taking full advantage of local talent and the furniture cluster of north-eastern Italy, but also of its intention to reduce the commute rate and the consequently CO2 emissions, associated with employees’ daily travel to and from work.
Carbon footprint measurements and ISO certification
On the certifications front, in 2025, Armony Cucine will obtain certification is accordance with ISO 9001 (quality management system) and ISO 14001 (environmental management system). These certifications ensure that our processes comply with the most stringent quality and environmental standards, and contribute to improving operational efficiency and minimising the ecological impact, by preventing pollution and cutting energy and resource consumption. At the same time, we are working towards implementing ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety management) and ISO 27001 (information security management) certification systems.
We are already operating a Carbon footprint measurement system, that allows us to monitor and quantify the greenhouse gas emissions generated by our productive activities. In addition to allowing us to optimise in-house processes, this approach also permit us to adopt specific emission-cutting measures.
In short, the process we have undertaken shows that environmental sustainability is a company mainstay that has resulted in ongoing considerable intervention over the years, such as the scheme to completely decontaminate the company of pollutants (first and foremost, asbestos) and to cut artificial lighting and service energy use.
This aspiration also fuels the ambitious goal of increasing the durability of our products, to obtain kitchens that age more slowly and consequently need changing less frequently, to the benefit of the entire production and disposal chain.
With Our Planet, the third pillar of ARMONY Equa, the communication project that outlines the sustainable development goals provided for by ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria, we are reiterating our commitment to a more sustainable future, where the production of high-quality kitchens and environmental responsibility are two sides of the same coin.
