What are the pillars of Porcelanosa's environmental policy?
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 3:45 am
Porcelanosa has always believed that without objectives to meet, there are no challenges”
Energy Efficiency Channel:
Jorge Fabregat: Porcelanosa's permanent priority is to provide the best service and products that fully satisfy the expectations and requirements of its customers, thereby complying with applicable environmental legislation and regulations. It does so by adopting the necessary measures to carry out actions to prevent and reduce the pollution caused by this activity.
Under this priority, Porcelanosa has always been committed to maintaining its leadership in quality, as well as to continuously improving the effectiveness of its quality and environmental system, by obtaining quality and environmentally friendly products.
And it has done so by meeting a series of basic objectives vp communication officer email list such as adapting the necessary measures to prevent pollution and, when this is not possible, reducing it as much as possible, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations that affect a company such as this, efficient energy consumption and optimisation of the use of natural resources, appropriate waste management and, finally, training members of the organisation in order to achieve the objectives set out in the management system, thanks to awareness-raising.
Likewise, Porcelanosa has always thought that without objectives to meet there are no challenges and therefore no expectations for improvement. For this reason, it periodically establishes specific objectives, so that their fulfilment is the guarantee that the management system (Quality and Environment) works.
CEE: The environmental impact of the ceramic sector is very high. How has Porcelanosa managed to reduce it in recent years? What have been the most effective measures and which have yielded the best results?
JF: The environmental impact derived from the activity of manufacturing ceramic tiles comes mainly from emissions into the atmosphere, energy consumption, water consumption and waste generation.
Porcelanosa has managed to reduce the impact generated by these aspects thanks to the implementation of good practices and investment in measures to minimise energy and water consumption.
Some examples of measures and good practices are the following:
Cogeneration: we generate 1/3 of the electrical needs of the production process in a clean way, from the heat energy released in the same process.
Water: Treatment, purification and recycling of the water used in production. Porcelanosa has 5 water treatment plants.
Installation of suction inlets in those areas where particle emissions are generated in the environment. These air currents are subsequently purified, as well as the gases generated in the atomization system.
Recovery of defective parts: waste material from the production process is reused to once again become part of it.
Periodic monitoring of emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere.
CEE: What strategy will Porcelanosa follow in the future in this area?
JF: Continue investing in technology that minimizes the environmental impact of the activity, detecting significant aspects through the analysis of the product life cycle, certifying series of tiles and manufacturing processes with ecological labels such as the European Ecolabel, betting on the eco-design of products that from the beginning offer the customer options with a low environmental impact and finally, promoting the use of renewable energies in those manufacturing and auxiliary processes where possible.
Energy Efficiency Channel:
Jorge Fabregat: Porcelanosa's permanent priority is to provide the best service and products that fully satisfy the expectations and requirements of its customers, thereby complying with applicable environmental legislation and regulations. It does so by adopting the necessary measures to carry out actions to prevent and reduce the pollution caused by this activity.
Under this priority, Porcelanosa has always been committed to maintaining its leadership in quality, as well as to continuously improving the effectiveness of its quality and environmental system, by obtaining quality and environmentally friendly products.
And it has done so by meeting a series of basic objectives vp communication officer email list such as adapting the necessary measures to prevent pollution and, when this is not possible, reducing it as much as possible, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations that affect a company such as this, efficient energy consumption and optimisation of the use of natural resources, appropriate waste management and, finally, training members of the organisation in order to achieve the objectives set out in the management system, thanks to awareness-raising.
Likewise, Porcelanosa has always thought that without objectives to meet there are no challenges and therefore no expectations for improvement. For this reason, it periodically establishes specific objectives, so that their fulfilment is the guarantee that the management system (Quality and Environment) works.
CEE: The environmental impact of the ceramic sector is very high. How has Porcelanosa managed to reduce it in recent years? What have been the most effective measures and which have yielded the best results?
JF: The environmental impact derived from the activity of manufacturing ceramic tiles comes mainly from emissions into the atmosphere, energy consumption, water consumption and waste generation.
Porcelanosa has managed to reduce the impact generated by these aspects thanks to the implementation of good practices and investment in measures to minimise energy and water consumption.
Some examples of measures and good practices are the following:
Cogeneration: we generate 1/3 of the electrical needs of the production process in a clean way, from the heat energy released in the same process.
Water: Treatment, purification and recycling of the water used in production. Porcelanosa has 5 water treatment plants.
Installation of suction inlets in those areas where particle emissions are generated in the environment. These air currents are subsequently purified, as well as the gases generated in the atomization system.
Recovery of defective parts: waste material from the production process is reused to once again become part of it.
Periodic monitoring of emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere.
CEE: What strategy will Porcelanosa follow in the future in this area?
JF: Continue investing in technology that minimizes the environmental impact of the activity, detecting significant aspects through the analysis of the product life cycle, certifying series of tiles and manufacturing processes with ecological labels such as the European Ecolabel, betting on the eco-design of products that from the beginning offer the customer options with a low environmental impact and finally, promoting the use of renewable energies in those manufacturing and auxiliary processes where possible.