Magnezit: territory of environmental safety
Plants of Satka production site of Magnezit Group (town Satka, Chelyabinsk region) have completed ahead of schedule implementation of the program excessive emissions reduction.
«We are aware of the high level of responsibility for preservation of environment for future generations, pointed out CEO of Magnezit Group Sergey Odegov. — We seek to ensure environmental safety at each stage of technological cycle. It is an unconditional priority for Magnezit Group. Strategic program of environmental safety for the period up to 2020 became continuation of this activity».
The Strategic program with the total volume of investment into nature conservation activity amounting to more than 5 billion rubles consolidated measures of environmental orientation in all spheres of Magnezit Group activity. Besides correspondence to the norms of maximum permissible emissions approved by the government of the region, the program envisages a package of additional measures aimed at preservation of all components of natural environment: atmospheric air, surface and underground water, soil and vegetation.
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The work aimed at reduction of dumping of contaminants into the river Bigger Satka will be continued thanks to transition to closed-loop water circulation. Modern devices for control of dumping of contaminants will be installed. In the framework of the Strategic program it is envisaged as well to expand the new site of domestic waste landfill corresponding to all ecological standards. The project of «Magnezit» sanitary protection zone has been developed. More than 40 various enterprises and organizations are located in this zone. It will enable to apply requirements of nature preservation legislature in the field of atmospheric air protection to all the enterprises located in the sanitary zone of «Magnezit». At the moment the project is at the stage of approval by controlling authorities.
Magnezit Group is a recognized world leader in production of highest quality magnesia refractories for various industries, in the first place, for metallurgy. The structure of the Group includes 15 plants in Russia, Slovakia, Germany and China. But the Southern Urals is a production core of the Group, where all potential of the Company is concentrated.