VEBA is going green

TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The sustainable development is a kind of development that does not compromise the quality life of the future generations and that protects the quality and the quantity of the natural reserves. The target, shared by VEBA, is to maintain a sustainable economic development that means a development compatible with the social equity and the ecosystems, working in a environmental regime of balance.

THE CHANGE
Why becoming more efficient?
Because it’s convenient
Because the sudden fall of a lot of systems shows that the actual approach is not sustainable
Because we want it. VEBA wants to communicate to all that is the right moment to bring these changes to have a better planet

CHANGE IS CONVENIENT
Greenhouse effect, water and air pollution, acid rains, economical and financial crisis: the list is well known.
In an interconnection era, characterized by web and networks, when a crisis effects an area of the planet, there is a quick reflect elsewhere..
Nevertheless, these problems represent also an opportunity. People all over the world are ready to change? VEBA is ready, for us changing is a must.

IN PRACTICE, WHAT ARE WE DOING?
Research and development, innovation, knowledge. These are the three main resources of VEBA that will produce a sustainable and positive change

Recycling: recover material to re-use instead of dispose of them. Can be recycled: raw materials, half-finished or different materials derived from working process, from other business partners that produce different materials that otherwise would go wasted or thrown like litter. The recycling prevents a potential waste of useful materials, reduces the consumption of raw materials, reduces the use of energy and consequently the emission of greenhouse gases. Recycling is a key concept and is an irreplaceable component in the hierarchy of management of the litter. The material that can be recycled are all the litter that are re-used to produce new equal objects (glass, card) or used to produce new materials (wood, woven).

Promote a greater utilization of the catalogs in digital format instead of catalogs in paper format. Technology allows it, every company has the possibility to surf internet and use email. If it’s necessary to print, try to use eco-printing systems on FSC certified paper. The FSC brand identifies the products containing wood coming from forests managed in correct manner and responsibly according to strict social and economical environmental standard.

Stockonline: consulting on line the warehouses of VEBA to see real time stocks, directly ask for offers, orders, verify the shipping status and the invoices with only few clicks. Thanks to Stockonline we would stop using fax, paper and ink.

Recovering of oil and burr in automatic productions. We don’t waste even a drop of oil and we throw away nothing. We also try to re-use water used during our productions.

VEBA products comply with the RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC). The RoHS Directive stands for "the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment". This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.

To save money, energy and to decrease the pollution, we correctly set the offices and warehouses thermostats in summer and winter. We are providing every light with low energy consumption bulbs and we will provide to use, wherever possible, automatic sensors of presence to avoid waste of light when people is absent.

Since 2005, we apply the chrome 3 galvanizing treatment on our fittings. According to the European Instruction 2000/53/EC. The normative imposes the prohibition of the utilization of chrome 6, harmful for the environment. Test in salty spray machines and the research for alternative products of same chrome 6 performances permitted us to find a better and clean solution, without polluting. )