The company cannot exist outside of its territory. For this reason, it must now strive to protect the habitat in which us humans live, by reducing polluting emissions, recycling materials used, and optimizing energy consumption. Dompé has a strong connection to the Abruzzo region, where 30 years ago it opened its production hub which supplies all its markets. Thus, environmental sustainability has always gone hand in hand with human health in its development strategies.

At the end of 2022, the company launched a new environmental investment plan of over three million euros. By the end of 2023, at the production plant in Via Campo di Pile, L'Aquila, a state-of-the-art trigeneration plant will be operational. With this upgrade, 70% of the energy needed for the 170,000 square meter site will be locally produced from sustainable sources. Apart from offices, the plant houses research and development laboratories and facilities where over 1,500 tons of granules and over 2 million liters of drops and syrups are produced each year, totaling 700 million doses annually, including over-the-counter drugs, prescription drugs, and medical devices.

"The system," explains Chief Industrial Officer Stefano Arena, "will allow us, with a single process, to produce electricity, hot water, and steam, and supply the temperature and humidity control systems required in a biopharmaceutical company."

One of the distinctive features of the new plant is its Hydrogen Ready status. "Currently, using methane, which is already considered the cleanest fuel among fossil energy sources, makes this trigeneration plant sustainable. When natural gas suppliers will be able to provide hydrogen through their networks, we’ll be able to easily switch to this even more environmentally friendly source. All the new boilers we are installing have Hydrogen Ready burners."

Making a trigeneration plant even more ecologically sustainable is the energy autonomy it provides to a company. "We aim," says Arena, "to achieve at least 70% energy autonomy. This will not only save on energy costs (which have been a major concern for everyone in the last two years), but also help reduce our carbon footprint. "Thanks to the trigeneration plant, Dompé aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 4.5%”, which is equivalent to 400 tons of CO2.

"In addition to this," Arena concludes, "in the past years, and currently, we have undertaken many other small and large initiatives for environmental sustainability. For example, we have been able to purify all wastewater from processes and are planning to use a large part of this water for irrigation of surrounding lands. Regarding electricity, we are interested in understanding how we can participate in the process that will lead to the birth of renewable energy communities in the coming years. More as consumers - since the pharmaceutical industry is energy-intensive - than as producers."