We dream of the best possible future. For our company, for the people who work with us, for those who choose our products every day and for the world around us.
But we don’t want it to remain just a dream. This is why we go the extra mile every day to achieve it. This is what ‘sustainability’ means to us.
As in all things, it starts at home. We do our best to provide a welcoming and stimulating workplace. A place where everybody is able to work happily, to take care of our customers, our co-workers and our environment.
At first we asked ourselves: what can a company like ours do for everyone’s future? Our slogan, ‘Together to create’, gave us the answer.
We can strive, together with those around us, to do better and better. First with small actions and then bigger ones. And when you do that, you also become an inspiration for others. And for others and for even more others.
Isn’t this how you change things?
We can only go far together.
Change takes time. And a forward-looking strategy. Ours can be summarized in 5 cornerstones.
A green network to safeguard the planet.
“In a better world, our products will also be better”
Antonello
We believe in systems. And in connections. We are a company that is part of a network of interconnected companies. Then, to do great things, synergy is needed. And collaboration. Only by working together can we minimize our environmental impact and inspire people and organizations around us to do the same.
Among our partnerships, the one with Nativa was a breakthrough for us. The first B Corp in Europe, Nativa helps companies to become ‘regenerative businesses’, companies that contribute to the development of the region, creating an equitable future.
Thanks to Nativa, we applied the world’s most widely used tool for measuring environmental and social impacts to Gelit: the B Impact Assessment. Not only that, together we are working on transforming Gelit itself into a regenerative company.
The decarbonization of our activities is part of this journey. The European Union has set a target to achieve this by 2050. We are working to do this before 2035.
Report BIA
Report SCLCA-LCA
2021 Sustainability Report
2022 Sustainability Report
Member of
We are committed to integrating climate neutrality into our Articles of Association(Company bylaws?) ,
to implement a progressive evolution of our business towards a zero-emission economy.
Main Future Goals
N.B. These data refer to the year 2022, in some cases in comparison to the year 2021.
Main Future Goals
Work well, live better.
“This is more than just a big family to me. It’s my family. The surname has nothing to do with it. Yet, in a way, everyone who works here has the same DNA. What unites us is our love for things done well and the enthusiasm that drives us to experiment with new ideas, dialoguing with each other, comparing different experiences and points of view. This is why I consider Gelit, more than a company, my community: a project to be part of, all gathered together to discuss a new recipe. Or playing around the foosball table in our little courtyard.”
Giulio
It all starts with the people. And by the relationships they forge together. Our greatest satisfaction is seeing those who work with us feel good. A welcoming and stimulating working environment changes everyone’s life. We know this because we see it every day.
A Kenyan proverb says: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” From the moment we are born, we go together with those who work with us and we go far with them. It is a source of pride to see our people share our common vision and work together to achieve a dream. It tells us that the path we have taken is the right one.
Over the years we have always had a clear goal in front of us: to create an environment that allows those who work there to share ideas, stories and experiences. So that work is no longer just work, but a fundamental component of a fulfilling life.
2022 Key Achievements
Main future goals
What is around us is part of us.
“I have always enjoyed being here, in a land as generous as few are. We work every day for tables halfway around the world, but in some way we are a local company. Tied to the region and responsible for those who live it. It may be that this is not just any place, but it is the place where almost all of us at Gelit were born and grew up. Respecting it is as normal to us as filling our lungs with this air that we strive to keep clean.”
Alberto
Can you remain a local reality even when you reach the tables halfway around the world? We believe so. Most of the people who work with us were born and grew up here, in the Agro Pontino area, and it is normal for us to do everything we can to see it flourish.
But how do you help your community? We discovered many ways. The first is to shorten the production chain, thus giving new job opportunities to local businesses and minimizing emissions.
Local organizations can then be helped. In 2022, we were able to donate over 18 tons of food to the non-profit organization ‘Institute for the Family’ helping over 200 families in need.
And then there is our long-cherished dream: to create a sustainability district with the other companies in Cisterna. That is, using each other’s waste to produce materials and fuels, with a view to a circular economy and mutual aid. If we don’t help our neighbors, what kind of community is it?
