Vincenzo Crapanzano receives the EN 16001 from Giovanni Oliveri
September 06, 2010
Dalmine, Tenaris’s mill in Italy, has received the UNI CEI EN 16001:2009 certification from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. The certification includes not only Dalmine’s production site, but also the power plant located inside the mill.
EN 16001, which was approved in August 2009, is an innovative standard applied to medium and large companies that register significant levels of energy consumption. Certified companies have demonstrated a management system designed to safeguard energy, reduce consumption, and thus, minimize environmental impact.
“Since 2007, we have been launching various energy saving projects covering multiple areas. The certification obtained is an important form of recognition of everyone’s commitment, awareness, and the goals we have accomplished,” said Vincenzo Crapanzano, Tenaris’s Area Manager Europe, who received the certification from Giovanni Oliveri, President of Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Italy.
“Dalmine has shown an impressive ability to set ambitious energy saving goals and to achieve them through action plans that involve the entire corporate population, with a constant focus on reducing consumption,” said Vincenzo Patti, Managing Director of Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. “Currently there is a very limited number of companies around the world that have the EN 16001 certification, and Dalmine has succeeded in becoming the world’s first tube manufacturer to obtain this certification, and the fourth company in Italy.”
The next goal for Tenaris is to continue improving its performance in terms of energy efficiency and, at the same time, to extend the best practices introduced at the Dalmine plant to the company’s other mills in Italy and abroad.