Hera awarded waste management tender for the Modena area
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The bid for the Modena area made by a temporary consortium led by Hera won thanks to its focus on sustainability, innovation and creating shared value. The contract with Atersir, the regulatory agency and contracting station on behalf of the 32 municipalities involved, will extend over a period of 15 years and will have a value of over 880 million euro.
The Emilia-Romagna Territorial Agency for Water and Waste Services (Atersir), the regulatory agency and contracting station, has officially awarded the tender for urban and assimilated waste management in the Modean area to the temporary group of companies (RTI) made up of Hera S.p.A., Giacomo Brodolini Soc. Coop and Consorzio Stabile Ecobi.
The numbers of the tender won by the consortium led by the Hera Group
The contract concerns 32 municipalities in the Modena area, including the city of Modena, covering an area with approximately 490,000 inhabitants overall.
As requested during the tender, the temporary consortium led by the Hera Group – the outgoing manager of this service for the same municipalities – will make significant investments to extend methods for collection over the entire served area that allow waste to be measured precisely, with the aim of minimising the amount of non-sorted waste delivered and increasing the quantity sent for recycling.
The contract, to be signed in the upcoming months by Hera and Atersir, has a total value of over 880 million euro and a fifteen-year timespan.
More sustainability and increased shared value for communities
Thanks to the strong operational skills possessed by Hera and the other companies forming the temporary consortium to which was awarded the contract, the geographical area included in the service contract will be provided with collection models presenting innovative services and equipment, highly oriented towards sustainability, reduced waste and an increase in recycled materials.
Innovation and sustainability, in any case, are values that Hera expressly pursued since the earliest stages of the tender, whose concreteness is proven by the results in terms of the percentage of sorted collection already achieved by the municipalities managed in the Modena area, with unit-pricing collection systems.
The Ecosistema Urbano report published this week by Legambiente and Sole 24 Ore, which compares Italy’s capital cities, has also certified Ferrara’s leading position in terms of the percentage of sorted waste collected, for the third year in a row. This city is served by Hera with collection systems based on unit pricing, similar to those foreseen for Modena and the other municipalities in the Modena area.
More dialogue and better environmental performances
The key principles underpinning the bid submitted by the consortium led by Hera consist in awareness raising and a more active involvement of citizens and businesses, in order to encourage a reduction in the overall amount of waste, especially non-sorted waste, and ever-stronger emphasis on sorted waste collection.
In fact, the experience gained until now shows that – regardless of the collection model proposed – the environmental performance of waste collection is better when a community is more aware of its own role. This is why, right from the earliest months of the new service contract, Hera will launch progressive communication and information campaigns aimed at increasing citizen involvement, and in so doing, further increasing the quality of the service, with a view to creating even more shared value for local communities.
Executive Chairman Tommasi: “a confirmation of service quality and of the Group’s competitiveness”
“We are particularly satisfied with being awarded the tender for managing urban and assimilated waste in the Modena area, comments Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano, Executive Chairman of the Hera Group. “This will give continuity to our presence in this area, and provides confirmation of two essential facts: on the one hand, the quality of our work with one of the activities that, since its inception, have characterized Hera's excellence, and on the other, the competitiveness that the Group has reached in the waste management sector. This is the case even when dealing with European-level tenders, for which we have developed specific skills that continue to generate positive effects for the company and for local communities.”
CEO Venier: “alongside the municipalities in the transition to the circular economy”
“With this tender, the 32 municipalities included in the new service contract have all the tools they need to face the challenge of the transition towards increasingly advanced and sustainable urban waste management and, more generally, towards a truly circular economy”, says Stefano Venier, CEO of the Hera Group. “These objectives, thanks to our support and expertise, have now become realistic and concrete. They could not however be achieved without one fundamental element: the involvement and collaboration of people, who remain at the heart of our strategy.”
The 32 municipalities in the province of Modena covered by the tender
Bastiglia, Bomporto, Castelfranco Emilia, Castelnuovo Rangone, Castelvetro di Modena, Fanano, Fiorano Modenese, Fiumalbo, Formigine, Frassinoro, Guiglia, Lama Mocogno, Maranello, Marano sul Panaro, Modena, Montecreto, Montefiorino, Montese, Palagano, Pavullo nel Frignano, Pievepelago, Polinago, Prignano, Riolunato, San Cesario sul Panaro, Sassuolo, Savignano sul Panaro, Serramazzoni, Sestola, Spilamberto, Vignola and Zocca.
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Quality, Safety and Environment: Hera Group confirms a solid protection in compliance with international standards
Perseverance and continuous improvement, also thanks to innovation: these are the most prominent features of the Hera Group’s commitment to applying best practices for ISO 9001 (quality management system), ISO 14001 (environmental management system) and ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety management system), applied, to the benefit of all interested parties, since 2000, 2007 and 2009 respectively.
This has been confirmed by Bureau Veritas Italia, after 131 days of audits in which the integrated management system of the Hera Group and its companies Heratech (which manages the technical-commercial and operational services linked to end users, plant engineering services and analysis laboratories), Inrete Distribuzione Energia (which manages natural gas and electricity distribution) and Uniflotte (dedicated to managing the company’s vehicle fleet) was scrutinised by a team of 15 independent auditors. This work was done from February to May of this year, sampling and analysing sites and corporate processes in the provinces of Modena, Ferrara, Bologna, Imola, Forlì Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini, all served by the Group.
This represents a significant commitment in terms of verification, directly proportional to the detailed management of Quality, Safety and Environment issues applied by the Group’s companies.
In addition to the certification models for quality, safety and the environment, Bureau Veritas also verified the compliance of Hera’s management system with the circular economy standard (AFNOR XP X30-901) and the compliance of Heratech’s management system with UNI/PdR 74:2019 (BIM planning).
The Bureau Veritas auditors particularly appreciated Hera’s commitment to sustainability through innovative projects, e.g., in the areas of photovoltaics and agrivoltaics, Green Gas or gas leak detection using predictive algorithms with the help of artificial intelligence.
Marcello Guerrini, Central Director of Corporate Services: “This provides further confirmation of the fact that, with the commitment and proactive attitude shown by our people, at all levels, and thanks to the stimuli provided by Bureau Veritas, we can create a virtuous cycle working towards sustainability for the area served, for our customers and suppliers, and for all stakeholders.”
Roberta Prati, Certification & Industry Director of Bureau Veritas Italia: “It is a source of pride to be able to contribute – with our audits – to the verification and continuous improvement of the processes that the Hera Group provides for the benefit of the community. It is precisely by addressing people and the environment that we find the correct, deep motivation that guides us in our daily activities.”
For more info:
Ufficio Stampa Bureau Veritas Italia: Star comunicazione in movimento, Barbara Gazzale, 348.4144780, www.starcomunicazione.com
Ufficio Stampa Gruppo Hera: Cecilia Bondioli - Responsabile Rapporti con i Media ed Editoria, 051.287595, cecilia.bondioli@gruppohera.it, www.gruppohera.it
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Telephone: +39 051 287111
HERA SPA
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Bologna