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Lamborghini has
this month introduced a new range of carbon
fibre bags to its expanding fashion
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Lamborghini is the first automotive company in Italy to
attain the ISO 50001 certification. This certificate is
a recognition of the company's commitment to improving
energy performance in all areas: from design, development
and production of sports cars up to building, assembly
and finishing of the carbon fiber monocoque of the
Aventador. The certificate also includes the after-sale
service activities and building energy management.
This acknowledgment is the result of a complex
verification process carried out by DNV Business
Assurance – one of the major independent certification
boards at international level.
Lamborghini found the new ISO standard to be the most
appropriate tool for monitoring the attainment of its
goals to improve environmental conditions and energy
efficiency. The new standard also provides detailed
energy assessment by single project and system, and
makes it possible to integrate goals to reduce CO2 for
buildings included within the assessment.
Lamborghini already has ISO 9001 (quality management)
and ISO 14001 (environmental management) certification,
and was the first Italian automotive company to obtain
EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) certification.
“We are truly proud to have attained ISO 50001
certification, which consolidates Lamborghini's
environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
commitment,” said Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO
of the Sant’ Agata Bolognese company. “We are also
actively working on measures and projects that will
result in the plant becoming neutral in terms of CO2
emissions by 2015. This commitment in the area naturally
goes hand in hand with product development, for which we
reiterate our goal to cut emissions by 35% by 2015.”
Massimo Berlin, General Director of DNV Business
Assurance in Italy remarked: “Environmental protection
has always been at the heart of DNV Business Assurance's
activities, and we are happy to have been Automobili
Lamborghini's partner in such an ambitious project. The
decision to abide by the new ISO 50001 standard confirms
Lamborghini's serious commitment and long-term outlook:
conditions that are essential in order to achieve
organic and sustainable growth."
One of the projects that will contribute to attaining
the pre-set goals in terms of cutting emissions and
increasing energy efficiency is the construction of a
brand new building inside the main plant by 2012. This
building will house the Prototype and Pre-Series
Assembly Department, where prototypes of the cars are
analyzed and assembled.
Designed in collaboration with the engineering firm
Prospazio, this building will be built to attain
Industrial Energy Class A (consumption: (≤ 8 Kwh/m3 in
one year) and will be the first industrial organisation
in Italy to be entirely built with these
characteristics. This result is achieved by utilising
latest generation solutions and techniques as far as the
external facings are concerned.
The building will also be equipped with a photovoltaic
roofing system that will guarantee the annual
electricity requirement, thus allowing it to have zero
CO2 impact. This requirement will become a standard for
all new Lamborghini buildings.
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