Environmental policy

The main activity of Sicem Saga is the production of chemimechanical pulp for paper and board.

The production process is in the Canossa (RE) mill.
The paper industry has always been considered to have a strong environmental impact due to the high use of natural resources such as wood, water and energy.

The chemimechanical process and particularly the technology developed by Sicem Saga is considered environmentally friendly with some specific peculiarities:

• High yield wood for unit of pulp produced;
• Low quantity of water utilized for the production and high percentage of reutilized water after depuration;
• Low energy consumption;
• Bleaching without the use of chlorine;
• Low load pollution of the water that goes trough depuration.

Since many years Sicem Saga reserves special attention to the environmental problems.
In order to better evaluate the ecological impacts referred to the production and the logistic aspects, Sicem Saga has made, during the years, many environmental analysis.
 

 
All these analysis have the purpose to realize efficient interventions in order to lower the impact of the industrial production.
In 2005 has started a five years plan of integrated investments focalized at the reduction of the environmental impact and environmental friendly development of the company.
There have been made investments and have made courage and innovative technical decisions:

• Utilization of post consumer wood;
• Dried product in order to lower up to 50% of the outgoing traffic;
• Energy production integrated with high efficiency cogeneration plant and utilization of the heat generated by the engines for the flash drier;
• Biological depuration plant improved in efficiency;
• Improvement of the acoustic impact;
• Enlargement and modernization of the plant and fire fighting measures;
• Training to personnel regarding safety;

 
The company has obtained the environmental certification 14001 and the forestal certification FSC.
The environmental analysis done for the A.I.A. purposes have underlined in details all the aspects of the production proving that all the process  is in conformity with all environmental rules and laws and giving us the possibility to improve even more, where needed, the environmental performance of the company.
The work done brought us over the best technologies available (BAT).
Our arrival point is to obtain always more and more “clean” production process.