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the furniture industry and
with the lowest formaldehyde emission. Fantoni
- leader in the production
of MDF and wood shaving
panels - fetches every
year 200,000 tonnes of
post-consumer wood and
more than 300,000 from
scraps of wood industry.
Gruppo Frati, also active
in the sector wood-based
panels, recovers and turns
around 1 million tons of
post-consumer wood on
the national territory, while
Saib (another Italian excellence in recycling) ensures an annual collection of
post-consumer wood of
about 400,000 tons.
harmful substances -51%.
Also interesting are the
cases of Kubedesign,
which has decided to focus on furniture made of
recycled realized through
an innovative 3D technology that takes advantage
of the ability to bend the
cardboard, and Giovanardi which in recent years
has invested in innovative
solutions with low environmental impact in the segment of technical fabric
with exceptional results:
water consumption -58%,
consumption of raw material -83%, emissions of
Energy efficiency
The improvement of the
efficiency of the industrial
equipment can also be
done with simple measures, such as the application of an inverter which acts on the speed of
electric motors driving
the most diverse adapting
equipment in real time to
the actual functional reAlso Passoni Natura has quirements.
focused on naturalness
through the use of solid This is the system adopwood, minimizing the use ted by Porro: following an
of adhesives while anyway energy audit carried out
totally non-toxic and free in collaboration with Esco
Then there are the fundamental activities of Rilegno
(Consortium
Recycling
of Wood Packaging, part
of the CONAI System)
that collects and sends to
recycle over 700,000 tons
of wood packaging and
more than 800,000 tons of
wood waste per year.
Reducing pollutants
To make eco-friendly products we also have the
participation of choices
made
during the production, such as working
the raw materials with no
pollutants. Moretti Compact, specialized in the
production of children's
rooms, has focused on
the use of very low emission formaldehyde panels (made from 100%
post-consumer wood material Fsc certificate) and
of water-based coatings
which reduce the emission of harmful substances up to 95%.
of harmful emissions. Active in the biocompatible
wooden flooring industry,
Fiemme 3000 has perfected a treatment consisting of a mixture of more
than 50 vegetable and
mineral substances (bee
waxes, resins and balsamic oils) that provides
protection equal to that of
conventional paints.
In the textile sector, Gruppo Industriale Parà has
aimed at drastically reducing the formaldehyde
content in its products by
ensuring much lower values than
those required
by law.
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