Marisport is a family-owned footwear company that has always been concerned about the environment, long before it became a moral and legal imperative.
In fact, the sustainability of processes and resources has always been the target of directives from senior management, always with an awareness about saving energy and reducing waste.
In recent years and with our own capital, we have invested in the production of renewable energy for direct consumption and, more recently with the second phase of investment, we will be self-suf-ficient in energy terms, thus reducing our energy footprint to zero.
Furthermore, the new production building and the requalification of the older structure will allow us to reduce our consumption needs, both in terms of production machinery, through the purchase and/ or requalification of machines to be more energy efficient, and in terms of thermal needs, since the use of ventilated aluminum facades, which is 100% recyclable, allows us to more efficiently control the internal temperature of both production and service structures. In fact, we’ve investing a lot in recent years, from lighting all our spaces with motion and presence sensors, to the use of solenoid valves to section compressed air lines and production branches, reducing paper and water consumption with the use of sensor taps and automatic hand dryers, the use of water-based glues and the reduction of the use of solvents, we were pioneers in the use of hermetic glue machines in assembly and sewing, all with one primary reason: the well-being of people and sustainability of our production process.
As we have already mentioned, our environmental concern does not come from now, but from a long process of adapting the company to the arduous path of sustainability.
Therefore, some years ago, we signed the charter with the ten principles of the United Nations [UN Global Compact], which is nothing more than a collective commitment where environmental protection, among other things, plays a fundamental role in what people’s concerns are. and companies for the future of our planet, of our people. The culmination of these concerns led us to embrace the ISO14001 environmental management system, not because of the seal of approval, but because of the motto of continuous improvement and the internal goals that we are establishing so that we can become increasingly sustainable.
Environmentally, Marisport’s biggest concern is based on having an increasingly clean process in footwear production, it is the best we can offer our customers, the best we can offer our planet.