Sustainability Plan 2030
• Our sustainability planWe keep everything controlled to guarantee the quality of our products.
Consistent, high quality products are guaranteed thanks to the careful attention applied to every step of the production chain: Management, purchasing, the manufacturing and commercial process, staff, client assistance, logistics and checks performed at all stages.
This good practice is crucial to the production of healthy, top quality food products and is established through a quality system made up of a manual procedures and record keeping modules. These are made available to the certifying body which checks the company’s conformity and all clients at the auditing phase.
SITE | TYPE AND LEVEL OF CERTIFICATION | CERTIFYING AUTHORITY | YEAR OBTAINED |
Production unit | ORTHODOX UNION: Certificazione Kosher | 1992 | |
Production unit and press | DOP:Production and packaging DOP Umbria | 1998 | |
Production unit, press and commercial farm | ISO 9001:2008:standard for quality management systems | 1999 | |
Production unit and press | BIO:Production and organic product packaging | 2001 | |
Production unit | British Retail Consortium: “health care safety” of private label agro-food products | 2004 | |
Production unit | International Food Standard: “health care safety” of private label agro-food products | 2006 | |
Production unit, press and commercial farm | UNI 10854 :1999: Design and implementation of the self-monitoring system based on HACCP | 2007 | |
Production unit, press and commercial farm | OHSAS 18001:2007: certification for Health and Safety management systems | 2009 | |
Production unit | ISO 22000:2008: Management systems for food safety | 2010 | |
Production unit | EPD: Monini Extra Virgin Olive Oil “Classico”, “GranFruttato”, “Poggiolo”, “Delicato” – Environmental Product Declaration | 2012 | |
Production unit | HALAL | 2013 |
A simple philosophy underlies our environmental policy. Take nothing away from nature and the local area, which are two indispensable raw material quality elements.
This belief has made us one of the first large scale businesses in Italy to obtain Environmental Product Declaration (EPD®) certification, an investment designed to keep alive the values which have made our oil making tradition great and which we now safeguard for future generations.
We have taken several important steps to safeguard the environment, ranging from installing a photovoltaic system at the plant, buying energy from certified renewable energy sources and introducing recycled glass packaging.
Today we are a cutting-edge company in terms of buildings, technology and quality testing, capable of renewing traditions by means of a responsible management model in environmental, social and ethical terms.
Set up in Sweden but now worldwide, the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) regulated by ISO 14040:06 international standards is issued by the Swedish Environmental Management Council which manages the International EPD® System.
Most of our best extra virgin olive oils – GranFruttato, Classico, Poggiolo, Delicato, BIOS and D.O.P Umbria – have obtained this certification after passing the environmental performance testing across their life cycles (Life Cycle Assessment, LCA).
To calculate the environmental impact the system analyses all aspects of production including: fertilisers used in olive growing, water extraction methods, the volume of water used for irrigation, material used in the olive harvest, along with packaging and product transport.
The certification documents obtained by our oils can be consulted and downloaded from the EPD website.