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AllCost is now publishing its annual sustainability report on the company’s website, which contains information on the company’s organisation, financial results, investments, consumption, carbon emissions, data protection policy and cybersecurity, among many other aspects. Susana Abreu, from the quality, environment and safety department, highlights training hours and the value chain in this first document.
‘With the aim of achieving increasingly significant results, AllCost has provided three times the number of hours of training per employee than is required by law,’ she told T Jornal. She goes on to say that with a vast network of suppliers and subcontractors, all of them national, the company adopts a socially and environmentally responsible stance. ‘This decision minimizes the carbon footprint associated with logistics and contributes to the development of the region,’ she says.
It is known that the home textiles company from Guimarães had a turnover of close to 11 million euros in 2023, a figure that is lower than in 2022 and 2021. There was a significant reduction in water consumption (from 832,000 m3 to 467,000 m3) and a commitment to certification – ‘93% of the finishes carried out in 2023 were Oeko-tex certified,’ she adds.
The extensive report also describes its most recent sustainability projects, including ECOIntegra, which aims to: developing a new methodology for designing and creating products using waste, the development of five circular products based on this new methodology (which materialised in the creation of necessaires, decorative cushions and hair bands), the development of two new 100% biodegradable products (for example, the transformation of defective cotton terry products into soft and absorbent cleaning discs), the development of two new sustainable packaging options and a 50% reduction in the production of textile waste.