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Web Content Article on-date Nov 6, 2019 11:35 AM
389 Financial Times 2019-04-11 On November 5, 2019, McDonald's and the Hera Group signed an agreement at Ecomondo, a reference event in Europe for technological and industrial innovation in...
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Web Content Article on-date Oct 28, 2019 2:45 PM
388 Financial Times 2019-04-11 In these days the questionis not whether a world without plastic pollution is possible, but what we will do to make it happen. In just one year, more than 400...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2019 9:39 AM
Hera Group will participate this year at Career Day with a stand to meet the students. The initiative will be held on 10 October 2019 from 9.00 to 17.30 at the UniMORE (Modena Fiera). Marco...
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Web Content Article on-date Oct 15, 2019 8:51 AM
387 Alpbach 2019-04-11 The report "In Good Water" provides precise guarantees on the quality of the water managed by Hera which, being tested 3,000 times per day, is 99.9% compliant with the...
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Web Content Article on-date Oct 3, 2019 12:30 PM
2019-10-03 (drafted pursuant to article 85-bis, paragraph 4-bis, of Consob Regulation 11971 / 14 May 1999) Communication of the overall amount of voting rights Bologna, 3 October 2019 - The...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 26, 2019 6:54 PM
2019-09-26 Announcement of sale of maximum of 14,426,407 ordinary shares of Hera S.p.A. Press release issued upon request and on behalf of n. 8 Public Shareholders of Hera S.p.A. ANNOUNCEMENT OF...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 26, 2019 9:25 PM
2019-09-26 Conclusion sale of ordinary shares of Hera S.p.A. Press release issued upon request and on behalf of n. 8 Public Shareholders of Hera S.p.A. CONCLUSION SALE OF ORDINARY SHARES OF HERA...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 6, 2019 2:06 PM
Refinitiv_110 The Hera Group has confirmed its ranking as one of Italy and the world's most interesting companies for investors who look favourably on businesses committed to supporting diversity...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 16, 2019 8:43 AM
6 Diversity_Index_110 The Hera Group has confirmed its ranking as one of Italy and the world's most interesting companies for investors who look favourably on businesses committed to supporting...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 12, 2019 9:48 AM
2019-09-16 logo_diversity_inclusion_2019_350x.1568272576.png This index, conceived to orient investors interested in companies committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and people development,...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 12, 2019 9:11 AM
4 logo_diversity_inclusion_2019_350x.1568272576.png In the international ranking, Hera, with a score of 75 came in third in Italy and 14th globally, further improving its position (after ranking...
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Web Content Article on-date Sep 10, 2019 5:17 PM
386 Alpbach 2019-04-11 On 26 August 2019, Hera CEO Stefano Venier made a speech on "how to turn a traditional utility company into a circular-economy frontrunner" at the European Forum Alpbach,...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 29, 2019 2:26 PM
A selection of Italian public and private infrastructure companies will meet the international financial community to discuss their strategic and financial prospects. The event is organized in...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 19, 2019 8:19 AM
Save the Children With HeraSolidale, the project with which we promote the support of voluntary associations active in the territories in which we operate, we concretely contribute to the...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 7, 2020 10:48 AM
20 top_employer_2019_870x320.1548922600.png sinistra Innovative human resource strategies, excellent working conditions, initiatives for personal and professional development for the entire company...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 1, 2019 2:09 PM
2019-08-01 (drafted pursuant to article 85-bis, paragraph 4-bis, of Consob Regulation 11971 / 14 May 1999) Communication of the overall amount of voting rights Bologna, 1 August 2019 - The...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 6, 2019 10:03 AM
Meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 30 june 2019. The BoD will meet in Bologna - Viale Berti Pichat 2/4 40127 Bologna at 11 am CEST. A press release on the board's discussions...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 30, 2019 5:49 PM
2019-07-30 The Hera Group extends the scope of its activities in Tuscany and consolidates its leadership in environmental services for businesses by acquiring the Serravalle Pistoiese landfill and...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 30, 2019 6:08 PM
HA-PTA_110 Herambiente, a Hera Group company and Italian leader in waste treatment, has acquired Pistoia Ambiente, which manages the Serravalle Pistoiese landfill and the associated liquid waste...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 30, 2019 8:53 PM
2019-07-30 GH_ASCOPIAVE_870.1565011002.jpg Today, the Boards of Directors of Hera S.p.A. and Ascopiave S.p.A., the latter based on the favourable opinion of its committee of independent...
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Modena's smart purification plant is COSTANCE, the prototype of the purification plant of Granarolo dell'Emilia. Two outstanding examples of sustainable water resource management.
The watchword is innovation. To protect the environment and those who live in it, and to provide quality services.
That's always been our belief. But there's more. We need to add another watchword: resilience, the ability to cope with change. And when we speak of climate change, we have learned that innovation and resilience are inseparable. The most modern technologies allow us, in fact, to face sudden changes, turning to prevention, the ability to predict causes and consequences, acting in advance.
Following this principle, and as the second-ranking Italian operator in terms of volumes of water sold, we have earmarked Euro 830 million for smart technologies in our Business Plan for 2023. In fact, the networks and plants of the water cycle are subjected to increasing stress due to the ongoing climate change, and only our ability to adapt and innovate, has made us an Italian excellence in the industry.
The investments we have made are 20% higher than the Italian average - almost Euro 176 million in 2019 alone – and reaffirm our commitment to a circular and regenerative economy, starting with water.
In particular, by complying with the requests of the United Nations Global Compact on the sustainable management of water resources, we remain committed to continuously innovate the service to achieve its gradual decarbonisation. This happens not only by using only renewable energy but also through energy efficiency projects and optimisation of the processes involved in the treatment.
There are two virtuous examples we are particularly proud of, the Modena treatment plant and that of Granarolo dell'Emilia (Bologna).
THE SMART TREATMENT PLANT IN MODENA
Blue water, clear water. This is the refrain that welcomes to Modena's smart treatment plant. Its new predictive system, unique in Italy, enables us to improve the quality of the water we return to the environment and to further reduce the energy consumption of our wastewater treatment plant.
Here, technological innovation, integrated systems, and efficient use of resources are at the forefront.
The project, developed together with Energy Way (the company that develops mathematical models for the efficient and sustainable development of businesses), created a system capable of controlling the oxidation process, a fundamental phase of the wastewater treatment cycle, anticipating the needs of the plant's activities. In fact, the requirements vary according to the water flow rate and the concentration of organic pollutants. The smart controller anticipates, 30 minutes in advance, the condition of the plant and acts beforehand to avoid the concentration of pollutants or energy peaks.
The pilot project has yielded positive results, which we are proud of. The Modena treatment plant, which can cope with the needs of 500,000 inhabitants, recorded a 16% decrease in energy used in the oxidation process, compared to a traditional control system, and a further 8.1% decrease in the presence of nitrogen in the outgoing water (a parameter already below the regulatory limits).
WELCOME TO CONSTANCE, PROTOTYPE OF THE GRANAROLO DELL’EMILIA TREATMENT PLANT
It's just been born, but it's looking very promising. We are talking about CONSTANCE (COntrollo iNtelligente e geSTione Automatizzata per il trattameNto di aCque rEflue). The system is the fruit of a partnership between Hera Group and ENEA (Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente), is based on machine learning technologies, and can reduce energy and water treatment plant management costs by more than 30%. The prototype has reached a level 7 technological maturity and is ready for industrialisation; the first tests were successfully carried out in our treatment plant in Granarolo dell'Emilia (Bologna).
CONSTANCE's main innovative feature enables us to remotely manage multiple treatment plants and to estimate in real-time the percentage of pollutants entering the plant, such as nitrogen, reducing them and thus returning cleaner water.
"At Hera, we place technological innovation among the fundamental pillars of our management and development strategy. With this in mind, in 2017 we formed a partnership with ENEA to build projects of common interest," says Franco Fogacci, Water Director of Hera. "The experimental test project of ENEA's CONSTANCE controller at our treatment plant will allow us both to further develop skills, know-how, and transfer new technologies into real applications on an industrial scale, for the benefit of citizens and the environment", he concludes.
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