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Tecniplast has been recognised as the best company in the lab animal industry for its environmental and social sustainability awareness and sensibility.

This recognition alongside Tecniplast’s many objective certifications and standards helps lab animal housing facility managers evaluate the green credentials of our products and services.

Many products, either disposable or reusable have recently been under examination for assessing their environmental impacts and address consumer choices. For many organisations the green approach is reliable and applied for systems management, product design and manufacturing. Organisations determine this with a complete set of international certifications. This award is the result of the research among the Top Cage Producers.

The renewed European Community strategy for Sustainable Development identifies in Sustainable Manufacturing and sustainable consumption which are the main targets to be reached within the European community. Consumers need to be informed about the environmental concerns. Manufacturers need to use a Life Cycle Thinking approach from the design Phase. European strategy has been fully applied at least in one case among the European cage producers and has also been confirmed as the highest grade of reliability in the given information.

It is important for husbandry managers to see pro-environment ads and these should be fully supported with evidence.

Green is not a “dream”, Green is a great commitment which starts from the more aware producers and/or consumers and will involve, unavoidably, other consumers and decision makers. This award is one of the first results which will help lab animal facility managers contribute to Sustainable development requesting, requiring and choosing only Environmental Certified Organisations and Environmental Certified Products.

The most important conclusion for purchasing managers, facility managers and stakeholders is that Environmental claims and certifications should be fully supported by evidence, complete certifications or peer review obtained according to internationally recognised standards. Self-declaration is rarely acceptable and even when supported by data, this should be examined critically.

The award has given important suggestions for improving the understanding of the Management System certification and for choosing suppliers based on actual and significant data available and reported in the certificates.