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Quality at Marazzi means quality of product, environmental sustainability and respect for workers’ safety, priorities that have enabled the firm to certify its systems and products. For Marazzi, loving ceramics has always meant respecting the environment, in the sense of the human and natural landscape.

Marazzi is a standard-bearer for eco-sustainable industry and has helped to make ceramic tile production a closed-cycle process. Throughout the entire process, Marazzi has developed a system for the collection and reuse of reject output, process wastewater and the raw materials it contains, and the heat generated in a number of phases. Environmental quality criteria are applied to the entire manufacturing cycle, limiting consumption of natural resources and environmental impact, through the restoration of quarries’ landscape and vegetation, controlled waste management, the optimisation of energy consumption and the recycling of industrial wastewater.

The safety of the staff who work in the plants is another absolute priority: Marazzi performs constant checks on occupational health and safety levels, making any technical and organisational changes required, including through direct involvement of its employees, to whom the company offers continuous educational and training courses to guarantee compliance with the set safety and environmental standards.

In 1994, Marazzi Group was one of the first companies in the industry to obtain ISO 9001 certification which guarantees the quality of the products and services supplied, while its environmental management system has been ISO 14001 certified since 2003. In 2018, Marazzi Group obtained occupational health and safety management certification according to the OH SAS 18001 standard.

ISO 14001

During 2004, the Marazzi Group obtained ISO 14001 international certification which sets the prerequisites for the implementation, development and maintenance of an environmental management system, undertaking to control the environmental impacts of its production process with a view to continual improvement.

ISO 50001

In 2022 Marazzi Group extended the certification of its integrated management system to embrace the measurement, control and improvement of energy performance, in accordance with the ISO 50001 standard.

ISO 45001

Marazzi Group has certified its commitment to the continuous improvement and direct involvement of all staff in the Occupational Health and Safety management system under the OHSAS 18001, now superseded by the ISO 45001 international standard, since 2018.

ISO 9001

In 1994, Marazzi Group was one of the first companies in the industry to obtain ISO 9001 certification which guarantees the quality of the products and services supplied, starting from product design and development through all manufacturing phases.

Green Building Council Italy

Marazzi Group S.r.l. is a member of the Green Building Council Italia, an association that promotes sustainable, energy efficient and environmentally friendly building, helping to improve people’s quality of life with the LEED® standards and certification

GPP

Marazzi is registered with Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Ceramics Industrialists’ Association) as qualified under the GPP (Good Phytosanitary Practices) programme for the control and shipment of ceramic tiles destined for the USA.

CCC

CCC certification, introduced in 2002, is applicable to all products imported into and manufactured in china for sale on the Chinese market. The information specified by CCC certification generally concerns health and safety and, regarding ceramic tiles in particular, specifically refers only to tiles in porcelain stoneware with absorption equal to or lower than 0.5%. The certification is issued by bodies specially accredited by the Chinese authorities, which are all based in China.

CE Marking

Marazzi Group S.r.l has fulfilled all CE Marking requirements for its products. Relevant commercial documentation is available for distributors, professionals and users on the website www.marazzi.it

UKCA

Marazzi Group S.r.l. has fulfilled the obligations arising from the UKCA Marking, relating to the UK market, for its products. The relevant commercial documentation can be consulted by distributors, professionals, and users in the download area of this website.

EPD (Environmental Product Declaration)

Marazzi Group has assessed its products’ environmental impact throughout their life cycle, from extraction and processing of the raw materials through to the recycling of demolition spoil. The findings of this LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), performed in accordance with the ISO 14040 series international standards, have been published in the Environmental Product Declaration (ISO 14025 and EN 15804), contributing to the attainment of LEED
certification credits.

ISO 17889-1

In 2022 Marazzi Group became one of the first companies worldwide to achieve Certification under ISO 17889-1, the first international standard which assesses the sustainability of ceramic tiles by means of quantitative and qualitative criteria covering all three aspects of sustainability: environmental, social and economic.

Recycled Material

Collection with a high content of recycled material, between 30 and 40% depending on the items. The series participates in obtaining LEED® credits in the Materials and Resources category.

Leed® Credit and Recycled Content

Voluntary certification LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the protocol for the international diffusion of green building and the sustainable program promoted by the U.S. Green Building Council. The LEED® rating system is structured in 9 categories, each of which is organized into mandatory prerequisites and credits which determine the characteristics of the project. All Marazzi ceramic and porcelain stoneware products, thanks to the ecological quality of the entire industrial production cycle, contribute to obtaining LEED® credits for buildings, in particular, for the thematic areas relating to Materials and Resources (MR), Sustainable Site (SS) and Internal Environmental Quality (EQ).

Greenguard

GREENGUARD GOLD Certification ensures that a product has met some of the world’s most rigorous and comprehensive standards for low emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into indoor air. For further information: http://spot.ulprospector.com

NSF

The NSF Food Equipment certification programme has 22 different standards that set minimum food hygiene and protection requirements for the materials, design, manufacturing, construction and performance of equipment for handling and processing food.
The materials for solid surfaces are examined based on the “NSF/ANSI 51: Food Equipment Materials” standard, which specifies the public health requirements for materials used in the construction of commercial food equipment.

QB UPEC

French QB UPEC certification provides the user with a quality guarantee: it confirms that the products delivered, marked with the QB and UPEC logos, comply with the prerequisites of the NF EN 14411 standard in accordance with the current certification rules and that they have the performance characteristics specified in the CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment – Scientific and Technical Centre for Building) “Technical Specifications for the UPEC Classification of Ceramic Floor Coverings”. The four letters refer to:

U: resistance to foot traffic wear
P: mechanical resistance to the shifting of movable and fixed objects
E: resistance to water
C: resistance to commonly used chemicals

The full, up-to-date list of certified products can be viewed at www.cstb.fr. Please contact the Marazzi Group for any further information.

FDES

Marazzi Group has published its FDES (Fiche de Déclaration Environnementale et Sanitaire) on the INIES database; the Fiche describes the environmental performance of building products and also provides health information regarding them, in accordance with the ISO 14025, NF EN 15804+A1 and NF EN 15804/CN standards.

Declare Label

Declare is a voluntary self-declaration programme that aims to steer the building materials industry towards healthier, more eco-friendly products through transparent ingredient disclosure.

Marazzi Group’s self-declared products are classified as “Red List Free”, i.e. they do not contain any ingredients on the Living Building Challenge “Red List”:

• no chemicals that pollute the environment
• no chemicals that bio-accumulate up the food chain until they reach toxic concentrations
• no chemicals that harm construction and factory workers

HPD (Healt Product Declaration)

Marazzi Group manufactures its products using raw materials of natural origin, such as clays, feldspars, sands and inorganic pigments. To guarantee transparency of information, the Company publishes an HPD (Health Product Declaration), a selfdeclaration on the chemical composition of the product, which allows users to assess the degree and type of hazard associated with individual components of construction products. The HPD is recognised within the LEED credits system.

CAM

Issued in 2017 by the Ministry of the Environment, the “Minimum Environmental Criteria for interior furnishings, construction and textile products” are a regulation that defines the rules for managing the renovation and new construction contracts of the Public Administration in Italy, with the aim of encouraging the design and construction of buildings with a reduced environmental impact.

The declaration of conformity to the Marazzi Group CAMs is available in the EPD of the Italian plants.