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Web Content Article on-date Jul 16, 2019 2:44 PM
GH-Lepida_110 In case of emergency, the last thing you need is an emergency logic. This is why the Hera Group, with Acantho - Digital Company of the Group, and Lepida have decided to carry on, by...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 22, 2017 1:23 PM
Hera's senior management participates in the financial event of Mediobanca, where the managing directors of the major Italian listed companies present the business to national and international...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 20, 2018 12:12 PM
scolarships_110 Hera Group repeated its commitment to support the school-age children of its employees and enriched the programme once again, for 2018. In fact, in addition to the 40 scholarships...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 21, 2018 5:20 PM
370 IGI2018 2018-02-22 The Integrated Governance Index 2018 was presented in Milan on 19 June. It is the only model to analyze the degree of integration of ESG factors in company strategies and...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 28, 2018 3:16 PM
assemblea_2018_870x320.1535623015.png Fiorenza Bavieri 2018-06-18 Fiorenza Bavieri sede_hera_110.1592477872.1603377620.jpg 766 00:00:00 Tommaso Tomasi di Vignano e Sefano Venier 23:59:00 Ex date...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2018 3:41 PM
Hera Group will participate this year at Career Day with a stand to meet the students. The initiative will be held on Thursday 7 June 2018 from 9.00 to 17.30 at the Unife Scientific and...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 5, 2018 12:18 PM
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 5, 2018 12:23 PM
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 5, 2021 2:51 PM
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 5, 2021 2:52 PM
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 5, 2018 3:05 PM
369 Hera Event 4.6.18 2018-02-22 Over 200 people attended the event for the presentation of the 2017 Sustainability Report, which has been completely revamped and focused on creating shared...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 1, 2018 5:51 PM
sachs_110 Among the conference guests there was Prof Jeffrey Sachs, of Columbia University, who played an important role in drawing up the Sustainable Developments Goals identified by the UN Agenda...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2018 3:38 PM
Also this year, Hera Group has organized two orientation meetings for the world of work this year: one is aimed at the children of the employees, the other one is aimed at the young "neet". During...
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Web Content Article on-date May 18, 2018 12:49 PM
368 Indici etici 2018-02-22 Hera has entered into an agreement with four credit institutions for the activation of a new sustainable credit line of Euro 200 million. The agreement is the first...
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Web Content Article on-date May 17, 2018 12:34 PM
sedeGH_110 Today, the Hera Group formalised an agreement with four credit institutions to activate a new € 200 million sustainable revolving credit line, intended to contribute to and maintain its...
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Web Content Article on-date May 18, 2018 2:21 PM
2018-05-17 Stefano_Venier.1534258940.jpg After launching the first green bond in 2014, the Group now confirms its place at the nations' forefront in the use of new sustainable financial...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 22, 2017 1:11 PM
Hera's senior management attends the investment conference organized by Unicredit, in partnership with Kepler Cheuvreux. The conference, organized at the Milan headquarter of Unicredit, is an...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 29, 2018 3:34 PM
Hera Group will participate this year at the initiative of the University of Bologna - Department of Computer Science and Engineering for students / new graduates of the courses of studies in...
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Web Content Article on-date Aug 22, 2017 11:37 AM
Meeting of the BoD to approve ad interim results as at 31 march 2018. The Board of Directors, as communicated for the previous financial year and in line with the past, in order to guarantee...
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Web Content Article on-date Dec 10, 2020 11:31 AM
Exploring the transition that the cities of the near future will have to implement to counter the effects of climate change: a transformation that involves institutions, companies, associations...
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An investment of Euro 37 million. A plant that disposes of 100 thousand tonnes of organic waste produced by separate waste collection and another 35 thousand tonnes coming from green waste and pruning material.
An investment of Euro 37 million. A plant that disposes of 100 thousand tonnes of organic waste produced by separate waste collection and another 35 thousand tonnes coming from green waste and pruning material. And that, once "digested", produce 7.5 million cubic meters of biomethane fuel that is 100% renewable and 20 thousand tonnes of compost.
These numbers tell the success story of our state-of-the-art plant in Sant'Agata Bolognese, just outside Bologna: the latest great and ambitious project to add to our long list of waste treatment facilities (89 in total, including waste-to-energy plants, composters, and sorting plants). With one big goal: to relaunch the challenge of renewables on an industrial scale and make this plant a reference structure for green energy in Europe.
Biomethane: a clean resource of biological origin
But what makes this natural gas source organic? Simply, the way to get it: not by drilling for hidden deposits in the deepest parts of the Earth but by fermenting organic waste in plants designed to do so. Biomethane can, therefore, be produced for as long as you want, it is endless, and production can be increased simply by building other plants. Making the process one of the purest examples of the circular economy.
In Spilamberto, a biodigester converted into a biomethane plant
An innovative plant for the production of biomethane came into operation in October 2023 in Spilamberto, in the Modena area. It was created by NewCo Biorg, the result of the partnership between the Hera Group and the Inalca company (Cremonini Group), thanks to a total investment of approximately 28 million euros and the use of the best available technologies.
Starting from the separate collection of organic waste and agri-food wastewater, the plant - created from the conversion of an old biodigester - produces 3.7 million cubic meters of biomethane every year when fully operational, a 100% renewable fuel intended for transport, and approximately 18 thousand tons of compost.
A cutting-edge plant for the energy transition and the circular economy
The 100% renewable natural gas is produced in the plant from the anaerobic digestion of organic waste coming from the separate collection carried out mainly in Modena and its district, from the waste resulting from the manufacturing process of the local agri-food industry and from the production process of Inalca's meat. Once refined, it becomes biomethane and can be introduced into the gas network.
The environmental benefits are important: around 7 thousand tonnes of CO₂ are avoided
Thanks to the introduction of biomethane into the network and its use in transport, significant environmental benefits are estimated: every year the use of approximately 3 thousand tonnes of fossil fuel oil equivalent (TOE) will be saved and CO₂ emissions will be avoided for approximately 7 thousand tons. To absorb such a quantity of CO₂, an average of 280 thousand trees would be needed.
What happens in our sant’agata facility
Organic waste, obtained through separate waste collection, is processed by anaerobic digestion to produce biogas. How? The waste, shredded and screened, remains for about 21 days in 4 horizontal digesters, where suitable microorganisms carry out the digestion process to produce biogas (consisting of natural gas and carbon dioxide).
Then the biogas is upgraded using pressurized water to dissolve the carbon dioxide and separate the natural gas. The result is biomethane, a gas with a methane content of over 95% and a completely renewable energy source.
But that's not all. At the end of the digestion process, wood-cellulosic material is added to the resulting solid matter to obtain a compact mass that is sent to composting, to produce quality compost, which can be used as potting soil for vases or as a fertiliser in agriculture.
Come find out more about our Sant'Agata Bolognese plant.
Biomethane is, therefore, another revolution based on the circular economy, which all of us in the Hera Group want to pursue. Again, to create shared value, as Herambiente's CEO, Andrea Ramonda, is determined to emphasize:
“The direction we have taken addresses the industrial world as increasingly oriented towards creating shared value and partnerships. We are aware that sustainable waste management, focused on the recovery of waste and compliant with the rules, is an essential factor in today's world, and one that delivers benefits to the entire community).
The idea of the exhibition came from the photographic project commissioned in 2018 to Silvia Camporesi on the occasion of the work being done on the Sant'Agata Bolognese site. The report has been enriched with other shots, thus becoming the complete story of the development of the plant.
The exhibition consists of 11 large-format photographic works which reveal where and how waste takes another form and becomes biofuel. Technology, innovation, industrial process, efficiency, circularity are the messages underlying each of the images captured by the artist.
Silvia Camporesi visited the plant every month for a whole year, documenting the evolution and changes to the facility.
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