Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola incorporates an Integrated Company Management System which is designed to achieve quality and safety targets in terms of the environment, management and the product itself.
For this reason Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola focused on ensuring that these aspects of its systems were certified and recognized by the appropriate external accredited bodies.
COOPERATIVA CERAMICA D'IMOLA AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Nature and technology combine to give birth to a new concept in ceramic tiles which places the relationship between man and the environment at the centre; an inseparable combination for the conscious achievement of eco-efficient corporate principles as well as those of environmental eco-compatibility.
Environmental Certification ISO 14001:
The environmental management system of Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola - in reference to the UNI EN ISO 14001 Normative - was imposed on the basis of the following principles:
- Protection of the environment and natural resources:
Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola strongly believes in the value of the environment and feels that its industrial production objectives should be pursued and fulfilled using strategies and facilities that allow the optimal and efficient use of the resources and in complete respect of the environment. It is for this reason that Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola focus on minimizing the environmental impact of its production of ceramic tiles and optimizes the use of natural resources thanks to the recycling processes which recover the waste from the various raw and cooked processing as well as optimizing the water supply resources and the reutilization of recyclable material for packaging.
Through the introduction of optimized plant solutions, Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola is devoted to constantly reducing the energy consumption of the production processes.
The majority of the electrical energy utilized is produced in-house through the use of the most modern cogeneration systems.
- Respect for the ecosystem:
Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola is dedicated to minimizing the environmental impact of its industrial production in order to protect the entire ecosystem.
Therefore, Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola completely recovers all of the water used in the working processes thus reducing the discharge to zero; it performs continual monitoring of the significant emissions in order to achieve a high level of reduction of the pollutants that are critical to the environment, it conducts complete differential waste collection of the paper, plastic material, wood, steel and copper.
Biogres:
Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola has undertaken a new project: to create its own porcelain stoneware composed of a blend which combines traditional mixes with materials that derive from the recovery of raw and cooked scrap as well as the residue from the depuration processes. This combination gives birth to the Biogres brand which characterizes the production of Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola with ecological quality and aesthetics.
The Biogres brand products have the following distinctive characteristics:
- 100% reutilization of the raw waste, with the reduction in the use of new prime materials and protection of the natural resources;
- 100% reutilization of the water used for processing and consequent reduction in the water requirement, thus protecting the water resource of the territory;
- 100% recycling of the cooked waste;
- Reutilization of the non-ceramic waste for the recycling processes and using them in other production processes;
- 100% recycling of the depuration residue;
- 20% reduction of the energy consumption through the installation of high energy performance system solutions;
- Over 95% of the energy required is generated through in-house production using cogeneration systems;
- 15% reduction of the CO2 emission;
- Absence of volatile organic substances;
- Containment of the emissions into the atmosphere which is by far inferior to the environmental limits required by the Italian legislation.
Life 05 ENV/IT/00875 P.S.V. project (Polishing Sludge Valorisation):
Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola has received recognition on behalf of the European Union which has chosen the P.S.V. project for the Life Ambiente project which involves the creation of an ecological process for the utilization of the waste that derives from working the ceramic and similar materials (marble, granites) with the fine tuning of an innovative process that involves reactive sintering.
Apart from the recovery and utilization of the primary and secondary material, which are currently stocked at the dump, this process involves zeroing the environmental impact of the processes that involve smoothening and working the ceramic material and the generation of new products that are entirely recyclable.
SYSTEM CERTIFICATION IN TERMS OF QUALITY
Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola has obtained the Quality System certification in relation to the UNI EN ISO 9001 Normative for the design, production and marketing of ceramic tiles for all of the production types.
Implementation of this system has the following objectives:
- achievement, through adequate management of the technical and system resources, of the ongoing improvement of the production processes;
- guarantee the correct use, efficiency, reliability and dependability of the results of the measurements and tests through the planning of the maintenance and the control of the systems, equipment and instrumentation;
- contribute to the improvement of the social context of which it is part and in terms of the people and the environment into which it is integrated.
