Competitiveness and sustainable development: challenges for the chemical industry
Director development Inerco01/12/2004
The current legislative framework of the European Union envisages an important array of new provisions and tools for planning and control of industrial activity with direct impact on its environmental aspects and security (IPPC, Seveso, Reach, Kyoto)(, etc.). These provisions derive important implications for manufacturers in the area of integrated pollution prevention and control, as well as the management of risks.
However, this is not the only challenge facing the chemical industry. These companies are facing the challenge of competing in a global market and, at the same time, be able to guarantee sustainable economic development, understood this as source compatible with the well-being and quality of life of the population, generating employment and wealth, persistent in timethe safety of workers and the conservation and rational use of resources.
Improving the competitiveness
This is the scenario in which is the contribution of Inerco, which develops and applies technological advances of the art for the continuous process of improving the competitiveness of the industry to help.
And is that experience dictates that in order to respond to environmental challenges and security without losing competitiveness, the chemical industries need to have not only advanced, but also comprehensive solutions. For this reason, it is necessary to integrate engineering, environmental and safety services at the operational level.
In essence, this means developing a comprehensive project management, adding to the engineering design and Assembly management of authorisations: drafting of all documents for applying for permissions (nouns, urban planning, environmental impact, waste, waste)(, license of work, activity or opening) and a coordination of all the procedures before the competent bodies at the local, regional and national level to ensure effective public information of the projects, with a pragmatic approach, to avoid arguments and social rejection.
Aware of these challenges, the enterprise policy of Inerco includes decision to reinvest most of the benefits in r & d and have increasingly better educated and more experienced technicians. Every year, Inerco technicians participate in a competition of innovation projects and development: it have left many of the products and most innovative services which the company has been able to offer chemical industry throughout its twenty year history.
Therefore, Inerco has consolidated its position of technological leadership which is based on its proximity to the industry, its entrepreneurial independence and the thrust of your organization.