RESERVED AREA Password ITALIAN ENGLISH DEUTSCH COMPANY VALUES PRODUCTS NEWS ARCHIVE CONTACTS PRESS RELEASES VIDEO INTALS AND ALUMINUM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS June 28, 2017 Marco Vedani, general manager of the company with plant in Parona, participated in an international conference on the future of the circular economy Parona, 28/6/17 - Aluminum is a widespread material in all sectors, it is the most used metal in the world after iron. Our homes, our cars, and an infinite number of objects of everyday life are made with aluminum, thanks to its lightness, durability and resistance. But the most interesting feature of this material we discover when we no longer need it, and we want to eliminate it as waste: something magical happens here, because if properly treated, aluminum can be completely recovered, returning to be exactly the same as that used in the beginning of the process, and can therefore be recycled indefinitely. Aluminum is therefore the perfect embodiment of the idea of circular economy, i.e. the increasingly widespread model of sustainable growth, which provides that the waste of a production and consumption cycle, instead of being eliminated as waste, is recovered and transformed into the raw material for the next cycle, and so on indefinitely. In an increasingly populated world, with constantly growing consumption and increasingly consistent waste production, the circular economy is the only way to look at the future of our planet with serenity. This long introduction serves to understand the importance of the work that Intals does by recycling aluminum and preparing it for new uses, and of the conference that was held last June 22 during the Metef, the international event dedicated to the world of aluminum. and to the various sectors that revolve around it. The conference, entitled "The aluminum industry facing the challenge of the future", was attended by exponents of companies, associations and the Public Administration, including Simona Bonafè, European parliamentarian and speaker of the circular economy project, Laura Puppato and Gianni Girotto, senators and members respectively of the Environment Commission and the Industry Commission of the Senate. In particular, Simona Bonafè stressed that "with legislative policies we want to push and encourage the possibility of redeveloping waste as a material with a continuous life, to make the circularity of materials an opportunity for greater competitiveness of our production system", insisting on decisive importance for our future of the circular economy, to be understood certainly not reductively as a "flea market", but as a supply chain of crucial companies in world industry, which need clear and simple rules to apply. The decisive role of foundries in this virtuous process of circularity of the economy was taken up by Marco Vedani, general manager of Intals, who recalled that it is precisely in the foundries that the great effort of all Italian families is realized so that "the can used in the recycling basket is renewed in the supermarket shelf". Secondary aluminum - precisely that obtained from scrap instead of natural deposits - is particularly important for a country like Italy that does not have the raw material to be extracted, and Marco Vedani, who is also vice president of the association of Italian industries of recycled aluminum, drew attention to the need to maintain current import duties that preserve the quality of aluminum produced in Europe, avoiding the invasion of metal from countries with production standards much lower than ours, and therefore of inferior quality. PRIVACY POLICY Intals SpA - info@intals.it - VAT number: 05860300150 | Somet SpA - info@sometspa.it - VAT number: 05860280154 | Via E. Schievano 7 - 20143 Milan - Tel. 02 8180941 - Fax 02 89122171