ATL Production is a French industrial SME of 25 people.
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It achieves €3.5m in annual turnover and has equipped nearly 900 hotels with its flagship product, the Levly®, of which 70,000 units are installed.

The company is working on new products, notably for the retail sector.
All production has been carried out in France for 35 years, at the company's site in Aubusson in the Creuse.

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What was your CSR strategy before contacting Sami?

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The ecological and societal impacts of ATL are of primary importance to us, if only through our products designed to reduce work-related discomfort.

We are a small company without a team or person dedicated to CSR, we have implemented our first actions, guided by our common sense.

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An example is our waste, from paper to steel, which is collected and recycled in partnership with our suppliers.

Ecology is a subject to which I am personally very sensitive, and I know that this is also the case for some members of my team.

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It seems obvious to me that as a business leader, my role is to ensure the long-term sustainability of the company. This involves this carbon assessment to reduce our impact, but also to attract young people, notably engineers, and showing them that we are tackling the issue head-on.

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Had you already done a carbon assessment?

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This was our first carbon assessment, very important for us to quantify our contribution to climate change and identify the priority actions to implement to limit our emissions and those we depend on.

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This carbon assessment will serve as a starting point to monitor our progress over time and set ourselves precise and measurable objectives.

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Why did you choose Sami?

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The first proposal I had was to go through a consultant and be accompanied in the realization of a carbon assessment for 12 to 18 months. This represented 10 days of work, i.e. a total budget of €10,000.

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I found this way of doing things a bit long, and above all, I was not enthusiastic about the idea that the quality of the final carbon assessment would depend entirely on one person whose working practices I do not know.

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I discovered Sami through my network, offering a faster and more accessible approach.

The calculations are carried out with the help of an online platform, which also guarantees the quality and above all a certain neutrality that guarantees better objectivity of the result.

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I had also contacted another similar company, offering a carbon assessment carried out with the help of a platform. The support offered was lighter, which is what made me turn to Sami in the end, who I find offers the best of both worlds, the simplicity of an online platform with good human support.

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What did you think of Sami?

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The whole approach was as simple as expected, a view shared with the company's technical director who led this project.

The support of our carbon expert, Matthias, was of very high quality. Everything was always well-framed, clear, and Matthias was following us closely to ensure the project progressed.

All teams were involved in collecting the data necessary for the calculation, which created a good dynamic within the company around the subject and aroused interest.

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What are the main lessons from your carbon assessment?

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This was our first carbon assessment, we didn't know what to expect.

And this has helped us clarify things, now we have a precise idea of our impact to work from.

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For example, we discovered that the end-of-life of our products, their transport, and their dismantling, when discarded, account for 17.5% of our impact. This is an area where there are several simple actions to implement to limit the impact, knowing the proportion it has in the carbon footprint will make us pay attention to it.

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This first carbon footprint contained a lot of analytical information, such as the detailed carbon footprint of each of our products, which will be useful to us in a second step after having initiated the bulk of the improvement process.

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What are the next steps before next year?

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We are going to work on changing the heating system of our premises. The increase in the price of gas had already pushed us to do so, looking at the results of the carbon footprint the question no longer arises.

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The work on the end-of-life of our products and our waste is also underway, working in particular in partnership with our suppliers.

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Another area we are working on is the impact of our procurement, particularly in steel, which accounts for nearly 25% of our footprint. Solutions of recycled steel exist, or we can turn to other materials.

This takes a bit of time, requiring us to redefine the economic equation of our products and our supply chain.

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