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At
the Callesella plants in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso, they have
started thinking about it over three years ago: this period long,
their planning, manufacturing and selling entirely ecological made
wood furniture have taken up the forms of the so-called "
Callesella's Ecology Plan".
Features of the
ecological soul of Callesella's wood-furniture are different, but
all equally main points. Raw materials, much to begin: Pinewood
from Sweden and European Cherrywood come only from zones being
under controlled woodchopping and submitted to a strict ruling as
regards reforestation. And then, the solutions for the finishes:
inside Research & Development Department they have found a
particular kind of oil extract from vegetables to be applied as
"varnish". At the same time, during the whole cycle of
production, all the other varnishes having part in the productive
processes rank well below of the current standard the European
Commission set as regards of " polluting emissions into
atmosphere ".
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Continental
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Recycled
paper for photocopies? Neither to speak from it: doesn't pay,
doesn't hold the ink......
First in Italy, Continental Paper, a
company from Savona, not far from Genoa, is proving the contrary,
instead: according to the Ecolabel European Standards,
reams of sized A4 Ecocopia
Plus ecological white paper by Continental Paper were
certified to be suitable to work with photocopiers,
laser and inkjet
printers and faxes drives.
The Ecolabel mark certifies
that the product contributes for the struggle against the water
pollution, the overheating of the planet and against the sour
rains, and that it favors the forests
safeguard. Using recycled
paper even for the photocopies has proved to widening the
already well documented benefits tied to the use of recycled paper
in an office: coming in the habit to use sheets of recycled
paper means reduced immissions of polluting agents in
atmosphere and brakes the inconsiderate run to unregulated trees
woodchopping. From the sea of duplicates, triplex or fourfold
copies much often uselessly produced every day at work in the
private or public offices, it may finally emerge an island of
wisdom. Next move is now up to blue
collars, managers, teachers and students as they are paper
first users, in an office, in a classroom or in a
laboratory.
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Esse-ci,
a company from Padua, that manufacture and market
recessed and surface
fixtures exploiting T5 and
discharge lamps just opened the door
to the environmental information on their website by bringing out
some solutions to an apparently paradoxical situation.
Lamps
and fluorescent tubes, they allow in fact
substantial savings of electric power but, at the same time
they are able however to cause environmental deseases: in fact,
broken lamps become dangerous because they
contain mercury steams and high-pressure sodium
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substances don't dissolve:due to this, anyone who has some spent
T5 lamps, has to provide to their correct disposal. To properly
eliminate this kind of lamps forget the garbage can, and refer to
nothing but the waste centers, inserting them in proper wraps. As
to recycling, they exist today new technology to select and
put again in the productive processes all the components of the
fluorescent lamps, mercurate and venom dusts included. Other
types of lamps have to be sent to a treatment of recover specify
according to the law, because their picking up and their recycling
is however a duty much before that an obligation.
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Schüco:
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Light,
solid and corrosion-resistant,
practical and long-lasting, easy to be moulded and to maintained.
But, most of all, the beautiful thing of the aluminium is that,
recycling it is a possible and
worthwhile way. From the Schüco
Italia web site, here comes the new, that Germany's Schüco
International KG and their net of technicians, they have
successful implemented a system to pick up and recycle the
aluminium profiles of
the gates and of the fixtures that will come replaced.
Know
under the acronymus A/U/F
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in an exact sequence of phases. It begins with the dismantlement
of the old windows and goes on with their picking up; to this
first two phases follows that of separation and recycling of all
the not aluminium components,
e.g. the glass, the steel, some plastics. The aluminium, once
recovered and separated by the other components, is ready for a
new extrusion: from here on, it starts a new cycle of production
for new Schüco products. Side
by side to Germany's Rewindo program for the recovering of old PVC
made windows, Schüco's experience in non
renewable raw material recycling as of the aluminium,
proposes a concrete and realistic synthesis: on the one hand, it
brakes the exploitation of non
renewable raw materials and prevent precious materials to
come to an end into incinerators; on the other, it makes a worth
also for the business management. Infact, smaller
raw material's costs of workmanship and transport are to
contribute to maintain the competitive advantage, increase
economy of scale and wide the possibility to better
planning the work flow of Schüco's
extrusion plants.
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Fiam
Airtools: Ergonomics all over the Assembly-Line
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Either
good or bad, ergonomics affect even the simpler gestures we are
used to do on a common working day. We could obiouvsly
let out of the item
lists the paradoxes of the coffeepot* fitting lip and
handle on the same side, but could not deny that an ergonomically
correct approach at work really makes the difference, because on
the road to win a major attitude for ergonomics, quality and
safety always get together.
As
we talk about systems and tools that equip work stations inside
the assembly departments, some concrete evidences have been
carrying out by Fiam Airtools.
The based
in Vicenza company, concretize their engagement for
the ergonomics by endowing with an arm sized support that
substains a pneumatic screwer, their original system capable of
fixing 9 special screws on the front--end plastics grill of a
motorvehicle. This solution, on the one hand assures that an
operator's wrist, arm & shoulder on the assembly lines will
cooperate and properly work together in a more confortable
position, thus reducing operator's effort and weariness during the
work, so that the operations safety can in consequence grow; on
the other hand, this system maintains a perfect perpendicularity
of the utensil, guaranteeing the correct entrance of the screw
both improving the clamping
speed and the quality of assembly.
Quality
and safety are subsequently strengthened by the fact that the
pneumatic screwer is self-fed and is favored with a system of
torque control being able to instantanely and automatically halt
airflow; that a laser sensors
system verifies the correct completion of the screwing
sequence, and, that, finally, a connected PLC underlines
every possible anomaly during the whole assembly
process.
©2003-2004
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*Jacques
Carelman “invented” and called "Coffee Pot for
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Carraro:
Total Quality & aimed Marketing to improve Performances and to
reduce Wastes
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In
Japanese it is said muda, in English it sounds waste, those
wastes of immaterial and natural resources that can erode part of
the value a company can create.
Chosen for their axles and
gear transmissions from companies like Caterpillar and Komatsu,
Volvo and Mercedes, Carraro Group go on with their own peculiar
ability to reduce and to optimize spaces, times, materials and
energies in all areas of their manufacturing activities.
At
Carraro, kanban/kamban techniques
are habitually used in order to supply just in time the
assembly units and in order to rationalize spaces on the assembly
lines; management tools such as Q.F.D., Quality Function
Deployment, or those for the preventive analysis of the critical
points also strengthen the direct and continuous contact with
consumers even during the prototypes
development and testing.
This all contributes
downsizing possible bottleneck, the number of test cycles, the
possibilities of errors and misunderstandings and even go ahead of
the planning phase:
consistent economies of scale, time and material are
also emerging from the fine tuning of axles
and systems of transmission directly
carried out on field. This kind of actions help to identify
possible problems exactly in the point and in the moment in which
they occur and, as a consequence, they take relevant part in
modifying products and processes. In order to save resources, the
benefits of a stabilized and
on-going relationship with the customer can even be picked
in the preparation of the technical documentation for him: when
Carraro aftersale Servicing collaborate with the customer's staff
in order to plan and to realize a sort of joint technical
documentation (spare parts catalogues, repair handbooks). The way
to the saving of natural resources can be seen also as an outcome
of the will and the ability to innovate in the Quality Total and
the Relational Marketing *.
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Laverda
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They
speak Italian and are also dressed in red, a littlejust like
Ferrari cars; they don't race in the Formula 1, that is for sure,
but in a sense they are in a competition too: the Laverda combine
harvesters are playing a decisive role in the competition to
defeat the hunger in West Africa.
Supported by 11 countries of
the area and by the United Nations with no direct interventions on
the plants genes but only crossing and interbreeding more of 300
kinds of African and Asian rice, the work of the researchers for
the Association for the Ricecolture Development in western Africa
resulted in a new variety of the Nerica rice, New Rice Africa.,
The experimental cultivation of the Nerica has been started on a
large scale in Guinea: this kind of cultivation, that promises
more resistance to parasites and to drought, increased production
per hectare and a better protein contribution, puts back
particular attention to the moment of the harvest. With this in
mind, twelve Laverda combine harvesters are currently in action on
field, under the guide of African personnel that have been fully
trained in Breganze, in province of Vicenza, where Laverda
have their home office. When they say that is better
teaching people how to fish that giving people a
fish......
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Creating
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Gechelin
Group: filled up with Sun and Wind
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Next
time you ask yourselves, what help people sail or light up
off-shore platforms and airports by night or during bad weather,
take in mind that they could be high efficiency lamps fed with the
sun, the wind and others of renewable energies; and also note that
the remote systems checking the occurences for avalanches, or the
microprocessor-driven generators and regulators being part of
photovoltaic systems to desalinate and make water drinkable, can
rely on sun and wind.
Gechelin Group
over the past 25 years conceived and manufactured photovoltaics
systems that substancially decreased energy costs for communities,
missionsand hospitals in Africa an South America, fed cientific
weather forecast stations, lighten up more 3000 road lamps, set up
public phone polls, lightened and GSM equipped. Dont'you thinks
this could be a pure prove that save energy and use susbstainable
and renowable resources is a daily alive and kicking
experience?
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Tegola
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They
were born in order to guarantee a healthy insulation of the roofs
and the attics of the rooms: ventilated
roofs and ventilated facades open new roads to energy
saving all the seasons
of the year long. The air flows that slide to the inside of roofs
and ventilated facades help in fact to disperse the heat in summer
and are a natural insulator in winter, with the effect to reduce
expenses in order to heat and to naturally airconditioning our
rooms.
The
shingle is a fundamental dowel of a good roof or an
efficient ventilated facade.
Tegola
Canadese, the European leader in this type of
production, draw their products from a compound made
of glass fiber, natural bitumens and basalt granule. The
outcome you can see under two points of view: on one hand, the
shingle turns out smooth in shapes and richer in colours' choice
and in the materials, like copper as an example; on the other hand
the shingle is above all able to reduce of several degrees the of
attics temperature in
full sun and to maintain it constant to low external temperatures.
A more energy efficent
roofcover also recovers
habitable spaces in the
attics, because the lack of condenses
phenomena and of mildews makes them more healthy and good
to be living in.
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Canadese, Italy,
Vittorio Veneto, Treviso
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AEG-LAFERT:
a Motor for the 21ST Century
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In
the opinion of the swedish management scholar, Mr. Richard
Normann, they can be seen as a true example of radical innovation:
from air-conditioning to industrial automation, electric motors
have brought substantial benefits in all the fields they have been
applied to. Nowadays, electric motors are key component of
hundreds of thousands complex and sophisticated toolmachines,
although this option is no free of charge: electric motors need
for increasingly amount of energy.
Coeteris
paribus, despite their apparently higher prices in
comparison to traditional motors,new electric high-efficiency
motors allows substantial savings of energy ( till 40% in less ),
and, as a consequence, of operating costs. The greater purchase
price comes amortized more times and it engraves only for 1 % of
the Total Cost of Ownership.
Beginning from the second half of
90's, when Lafert Group, the
leading Italian electric motors manufacturer, started up producing
their high-efficiency motors, their offer has constantly widened:
AMHE is the name of the high-efficiency line inside of Lafert and
AEG's product
range.
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Motori & Lafert Motori, S.Donà
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Lafert participation in the Motor Challenge Programme by European
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Murano,
Venice: Combustion fed with gaseous Oxigen and
natural Methane Gas is
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In
order to reduce the impact on the atmosphere of nitrogen oxide
emissions, of carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons and PM's coming from
from the furnaces, and in order to improve the energetic budget of
the glass district on Murano island, near Venice, the
experimentation of the combustion between gaseous oxygen and
natural gas methane is currently under go: on the island of Sacca
Serenella 5 glass manufacturers will act as first testers. Two
years will they be necessary for the Glass Research Center (
Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro) to evaluate the qualitative,
functional and environmental outcomes of the experimentation and
finally give a technical ok to the the sponsors' plan, Venice
Municipality, Artambiente and Sapio Group. If this will be
happening, turning furnaces into combustion fed with oxygen could
be extended to all artistic glass manufactures of Murano. Then,
from the Sapio Marghera plant, a gallery will undercross the
lagoon transporting gaseous oxygen to a reception center in the
island of Murano and from here to the reconverted furnaces fed
with both oxygen and natural gas.
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Favini
Carta:10 Years of Facts and Words for the Environment
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After
10 years as a high-ranking and internationally awarded protagonist
for their embodied and continuous appointment in saving natural
resources, by Favini the time of the words has come.
So, if the
90's have been the years of Alga Paper, the first paper whose
principal raw material are algas harvested in the lagoon of
Venice, the years of the ISO certifications 14001 and those of the
continuous progresses for the realization of productive processes
to low impact, that more recent and the futures will be the years
of the social budget and of the environmental budget to be
integrated into a comprensive reporting.
Dedicated non only to
the shareholders, but thought and turned to dependent, local
customers, suppliers, community, consumers, associations,
she/he/it/you mediates, the Report recognizes to all this subjects
the law to know what the sort of benefits the company has directly
or indirectly brought to them and to the collectivity in a certain
period of time.
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Imanpack:
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20
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There are
20 solar paddles fitted on the roof of Imanpack plants, in Schio,
Vicenza;
15 kWs of electric power are now available for the
company;
14 they are the tons of carbon dioxide that will no
more unloaded in atmosphere.
All of those numbers are now
making come true Imanpack's bet to begin to take advantage of the
electric power produced through solar paddles. The total value of
the investment is about 120.000 Euros, financed 20%
by Veneto Region. Champion in innovation, ImanPack
is on the way to use the energy from the sun in
order to manifacture their machines that pack and transport
products to end -users.
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You
can unveil its touch in the unusual and charming shape of a bottle
or in that particular evanishing colour that makes a product look
like no other: compressed air that feeds up machine tools, systems
and automatic components is a corner stone to turn ideas and
product concepts into a well apprecciated manufact.
Compressed
air is a form
of energy cleaner
and surer, easier to carry and store, and more capable of
flexibilizing production processes: nevertheless, it is not
however a zero cost option.
As
a matter of fact, wastes and ineffectivenesses affect the growing
amount of
electric power that has to feed the compressors. For
example, it frequently happens on the assembly lines that, while
the request for compressed
air that comes from the work stations always
stretches to vary, the electric power request for
emploied to feed the pressers remain nearly constant. As a
consequence, effects on the costs management are easy to
imagine.
An
ergonomically
advanced and effective solution against the wastes
of energy has been studied and produced from Ceccato: compared to
a traditional compressor, when working half of its nominal load,
the Carraro Multispeed Compressor
series CSB
halves the electric power consumption: in the meantime,
this product has set new record
in noise
levels by using panels lined with deadening
material, the addition of special traps against
noise and a careful assemblying.
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Tecnogamma:
Railways Safety runs on a Laser Beam
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Our
perception of the world comes from two different points of view:
our left an right eyes, can give us back a three dimensions vision
of an object and this allows us keeping distances and set limits
in an always changing and different environment. Beginning from
this observation, Tecnogamma have come to the right intuition: an
opportunely positioning of some lasers and high definition cameras
can result in high resolution measurements without contact and in
critical environmental conditions. This solution met wide
acceptance within industry, first of all that one of the Railways
Transport of persons and assets on railways is in fact one of
the yet practicable alternatives in order to save our cities and
our health from the growing traffic waves, where, however,
advanced standards on safety have to be always guaranteed
indeed.
The control must therefore be capillary, both on the
railways and on the vehicles.
So, for example, in monitoring
the healthy state of a railway line to look for the corrugations
that they alter the ideal rail profile, with an approximation
range that goes from tenth to cent of millimeter, Tecnogamma
measurement systems catalogue data on the undulations and hold
under tightened observation geometries of the railroads. The
dataflow sent to control structures can reach the 2000
acquisitions per second thanks to a parallel architecture of
processors connected via optic fibers.
As regards the
efficiency status of the vehicles, measurement about wheel
profile, diameter and wear, the brakes and axles status and the
profile of the vehicles are real time collected and processed by
compact laser beam &-cameras systems needing a very simple
installation at the track lateral side.
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