Founded in the end of the 1950s, ABET LAMINATI is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of decorative laminate.
The varied universe of ABET LAMINATI is formed by an endless number of products with different characteristics, aesthetic peculiarities and functions.
The company has always given prominence to the relationship between design and culture. Over the years, ABET LAMINATI has worked with top designers such as Giorgetto Giugiaro, Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Mario Bellini, Enzo Mari, Joe Colombo, Francois Burkhardt, Paola Navone, Karim Rashid, Konstantin Grcic and many others: thanks to these collaborations ABET LAMINATI has given its contribute to the development of Italian design.
The most important examples are Alchymia and Memphis, born in the end of the Seventies and in the beginning of the Eighties: these cultural operations deeply marked the international design and became a very important instrument for the promotion of the “Made in Italy” all over the world.
Over the years ABET LAMINATI has improved its laminates researching new décor and textures capable of arousing curiosity, awakening emotions, bringing inspiration. The laminate has gained an identity that can always be different: with ABET LAMINATI the laminates are always in continuous evolution.
In most than 50 years of its history, ABET LAMINATI has always given such a great importance to business requests and cultural changes and has continued to invest resources in technology and creativity, working on product image in order to offer original and different products. The ABET LAMINATI sales network covers both Italian and foreign markets, and over the years the company’s outstanding work has brought prestigious awards. In 1987, there was the Compasso d’Oro award for Diafos, the first transparent laminate with 3D decoration; in 1990 came the European Design Award and in 2001 the Compasso d’Oro Career award. Just a few of a collection of accolades testifying to a corporate mission that always targets the best possible results in terms of quality standards and inimitable design.
This document, unanimously approved by the Board of Directors of ABET LAMINATI s.p.a., represents the values recognised and applied by the company in carrying out its own activities, thereby also providing a set of provisions useful in order to make the work of all its employees compliant with those same principles and contribute to preventing crimes which may result in the company’s liability.
The present document is a Code of Conduct that ABET LAMINATI issued to satisfy the need to always have under control aspects that may impact on sustainable development in practice.
It is based on the conventions defined in the Fundamental Principles of Rights at Work (ILO declaration June 1998) and the Rio Declaration on Sustainable Development 1992. The present document covers ABET LAMINATI’S spa minimum requirements in the following areas: Outside Environment and Social & Working Conditions (including Child Labour) and integrates seamlessly with the Model and Management of the Company.