Commitment and respect for the environment

QUALITY POLICY, ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY and HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY

CERACASA, SA, a company founded in 1984 develops its activity within the manufacturing and commercialization of ceramic floor and wall tiles, assumes the principles on which its quality, environment, energy and health and safety policies are structured. Specifically: • Compliance with applicable legislation and regulations, as well as other requirements or voluntary agreements that the company may sign. • The analysis and evaluation of the relevant and significant aspects of our industrial activity in order to eliminate, minimize and, when this is not possible, prevent health and safety and the environmental impacts associated with it, implementing measures that guarantee an active protection of people, facilities and the environment, persevering in the conservation of the Environment, in the rational use of natural resources and in the improvement of energy efficiency. • The offer of a product and a service according to the expectations of our clients with the firm intention of achieving their full satisfaction. • The promotion, at all times, of the continuous and reasonable improvement of the Integrated Management System, structured according to the requirements of the ISO 14001, UNE 16001, ISO 9001 and OSHAS 18001 standards. It is unavoidable, and that is the way it is understood by Management, to facilitate communication channels and mechanisms that favor total coordination and collaboration between all departments and people that make up the structure of CERACASA, SA For all these reasons, Management is commited to provide the necessary resources and means, to efficiently assign the functions and responsibilities and to train and sensitize every person in the company regarding the suitability of assuming these policies.

  • CUMPLIMIENTO de la legislación y normativa aplicable, así como de otros requisitos o acuerdos voluntarios que la empresa pudiera suscribir con partes interesadas, tanto en relación con su actividad como con los productos que comercializa.

  • ANÁLISIS Y EVALUACIÓN de los aspectos relevantes y significativos de la actividad industrial, desde una perspectiva de ciclo de vida, con el fin de eliminar, minimizar y, cuando ello no sea posible, prevenir los riesgos laborales y los impactos ambientales asociados.

  • IMPLEMENTACIÓN de las medidas que garanticen una protección activa sobre personas, instalaciones y entorno, perseverando en la conservación del medio, en el uso racional de los recursos naturales, en la óptima gestión de los residuos generados, en la minimización de las emisiones atmosféricas y en la mejora de la eficiencia energética.

  • PLANTEAMIENTO y seguimiento de objetivos periódicos con el fin de promover, en todo momento, la mejora continua y razonable del sistema integrado de gestión.

  • ASIGNACIÓN de los recursos y medios necesarios para garantizar la puesta en el mercado de productos de alta calidad, innovadores y respetuosos con el medio ambiente, a la altura de las expectativas de nuestros clientes, con el firme propósito de lograr su plena satisfacción

  • ESTABLECIMIENTO de las vías de comunicación y los mecanismos que favorezcan la coordinación y colaboración entre los departamentos y las personas que integran la estructura de CERACASA, S.A., así como con las partes interesadas externas.

  • FORMACIÓN Y SENSIBILIZACIÓN que repercutan en mejorar la calidad de los procesos y productos y que estén en línea con el desarrollo sostenible y la economía circular.

Environmental Management

CERACASA has a department that enhances any nucleus of its structure capable of influencing the environmental variable, therefore guaranteeing that the supplied product has been manufactured within a framework of respect for the environment and complying with the most rigorous standards of environmental quality.

ISO 14001 Standards

CERACASA has an environmental management system structured according to the guidelines of the ISO 14001 standard, with the guarantee of having been certified since February 2000, by such a prestigious entity as BVQi. This means that the company has mechanisms to detect, identify, evaluate and control all aspects related to production or management activities that may cause alterations in the environment.

Waste recovery

Under these parameters, there are different action programs that are structured and developed aiming at reducing or canceling their impact. Currently it can be said that CERACASA recovers practically all the waste generated by its activity.

At the end of 2008, the renewal of the ISO 14001 certificate was obtained and the INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHORIZATION was achieved, complying with the strictest laws regarding environmental protection.

BIONICTILE BY CERACASA A COMMITMENT WITH THE FUTURE

This product manages to give structural ceramics a function that improves the environment considerably, opening new frontiers and adding to the responsibility of every company a global need that has not been corrected, up until now.