Pollution prevention

Active prevention of any identified pollution risk from the Company’s activities is at the heart of its approach, in line with the key pillars of the Metlen Environmental Policy.
The Company fully embraces and incorporates the internationally accepted Principles of Responsible Entrepreneurship of the UN Global Compact, which highlight environmental protection as a special area of commitment. Specifically, through:

• Principle 7, the Company supports a precautionary approach to environmental challenges,
• Principle 8, undertakes initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility,
• Principle 9, encourages the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

Through its business practices and overall approach to environmental issues, METLEN is committed to promoting a work and social environment that demonstrates respect for Human Rights, and its ongoing concern to preventing environmental incidents that could call into question the protection of Human Rights directly related to the natural environment, in line with the key pillars of METLEN Corporate Social Responsibility Policy and the Human Rights Policy which sets out the basic principles relating to the respect for human rights and sets the framework for managing employment.

Preventive and suppressive response measures are implemented in all METLEN Business Sectors.

In the Metallurgy Sector:

• strict adherence to the Environmental Terms of Metallurgy’s activities,
• continuous measurement and monitoring of gaseous emissions and particulate matter,
• measurement and monitoring of water discharges from point sources,
• compliance with the measures provided for in the Safety Study,
• conducting exercises to deal with industrial accidents,
• final disposal of inert and non-hazardous waste in insulated areas,
• application of Best Available Techniques,
• carrying out chemical analyses of wastewater,
• good knowledge and practice of Emergency Plans,
• Operation of a fire protection department,
• appropriate storage and use of chemicals,
• systematic visual inspections of installations,
• preventive use of a floating anti-pollution barrier when unloading fuel oil from tankers,
• Continuous quality control of natural recipients (aquifer – sea) and comparison with standard quality values.

In the Energy Sector, in all production units:

• All procedures provided for in Environmental Management Systems and Emergency Plans, as well as instructions for operation and maintenance of facilities,
• monitoring of air pollutant emissions,
• the best options available for the reuse, recycling and disposal of the various wastes generated,
• personnel training and leak preparedness exercises,
• personnel training and leak preparedness exercises,
• selection of state-of-the-art equipment,
• systematic environmental visual inspections of installations,
• annual external audits for certification of Environmental Management Systems.

• There were no incidents of pollution of the natural environment from production activity.