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Web Content Article on-date Jun 30, 2017 11:29 AM
26 Farmacoamico 2016-10-10 FarmacoAmico is the project promoted by Hera to collect medicines that have not yet expired in order to create a charitable network in the local area. Launched in 2013...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 29, 2017 3:06 PM
27 Logo DNV 2016-10-10 Hera's social certification confirms the results of its commitment to improving working conditions with concrete actions. Between February and May, the certifying body DNV...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 27, 2017 5:01 PM
Energy efficiency "Regarding energy efficiency, operators must be given the time required to obtain investments, and the public must have the opportunity to make the most of it", said Stefano...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 23, 2017 9:39 AM
2017-06-22 Nuova_Palazzina_870x.1533216684.jpg PRESS RELEASE OF PUBLIC SHAREHOLDERS OF HERA S.P.A. Press release issued upon request and on behalf of n. 13 Public Shareholders of Hera S.p.A. ...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 22, 2017 6:59 PM
2017-06-22 sede_HERA.1501171881.jpg PRESS RELEASE OF PUBLIC SHAREHOLDERS OF HERA S.P.A. Press release issued upon request and on behalf of n. 13 Public Shareholders of Hera S.p.A. QUESTO...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 16, 2017 5:54 PM
Ex date on 19 June 2017 and payment on 21 June 2017. Fiorenza Bavieri 2017-06-19 Fiorenza Bavieri sede_hera_110.1592477872.1603377620.jpg 733 00:00:00 23:59:00 Ex date on 19 June 2017 and...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 19, 2017 12:46 PM
19 110 top lundquist_62x62_s1.1501671970.png csr CSR_Awards_2017_Lundquist.1497948773.pdf 2015-02-06 classifica.1497948425.png Hera Group takes 4th place at the seventh Edizione & Classifica...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 19, 2017 9:19 AM
2017-06-19 870.1500390469.jpg With years of excellent results behind it, Hera renews its commitment to outstanding potable water quality and, together with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Higher...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 22, 2017 10:45 AM
28 Lundquist 2016-10-10 Once again, Hera has been recognised as one of the leading companies in Italy in terms of the online communication of its commitment to sustainability and stakeholder...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 18, 2017 4:26 PM
wsp 110 Water Safety Plans are European protocols for step-by-step monitoring of potable water production and distribution processes. EU Directive 1787/2015 requests, in fact, that member states...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 13, 2017 11:00 AM
29 Foto FICO 2016-10-10 On Saturday 10 June, a memorandum of understanding was signed to recognise the usefulness and strategic effectiveness of a joint collaboration that innovates, experiments...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 14, 2017 4:45 PM
20 110 top 300CFOAward_62x62_s1.1501671931.jpg Hera wins the "Business International Finance Award 2017" in the Administrative and Financial Processes, Large Companies category: a major Business...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 14, 2017 12:29 PM
21 110 top smau_62x62_s1.1501671912.jpg Optimising manufacturing to boost product quality, creating 3D catalogues, ensuring greater consumer safety through sophisticated food product tracing...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 27, 2017 4:55 PM
Stefano Venier discusses the goals of the UN's Agenda for 2030 The CEO Stefano Venier intervenes at All4thegreen, in view of G7 Environment that will be held in Bologna, to explain the Hera Group's...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 9, 2017 11:37 AM
30 All4thegreen 2016-10-10 Ahead of the Bologna G7 meeting on the environment, the Chief Executive Officer Stefano Venier spoke at All4thegreen to explain the Hera Group's contribution to...
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Web Content Article on-date Feb 7, 2018 4:42 PM
628 2016 Sustainability Report embraces shared value 2014-03-20 360 Fiorenza Bavieri video_mac_arthur_278x150_s1.1496830249.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbpzCTnCqE Stefano Venier meets...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 9, 2017 9:28 AM
31 Ellen MacArthur 2016-10-10 A few days before the start of the G7 meeting on the environment, the connected events got under way on Tuesday 6 June 2017 with the conference on the circular...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 5, 2017 12:11 PM
627 2016 Sustainability Report embraces shared value 2014-03-20 360 Fiorenza Bavieri Un bilancio di sostenibilità a valore condiviso 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBtNkkA4cMY 2016...
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Web Content Article on-date Jun 7, 2017 9:46 AM
2017-06-06 Italy's Minister for the Environment speaks at the conference on the circular economy - organised by Hera as one of several G7-related events - and cites the good progress being made by...
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Web Content Article on-date Jul 27, 2017 4:46 PM
Creativity and innovation [block]div:row-fluid::db:hr_press_comunicazione::box:68[/block] Events related with G7 Environment touch core topics with the conference organised by Hera on circular...
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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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