Less environmental impact and lower costs: Tosingraf’s choice
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Tosingraf is a company founded forty years ago that designs, manufactures and sells after print machines and distributes machines and equipment made by other companies. The company assures to all its customers a complete technical assistance and after sale service. A production department inside the company manufactures products like plastic covers.
Traditionally oriented toward the domestic market, in the last few years Tosingraf has entered a number of foreign markets with its own line of machines which are sold with the brand “MAMO”.
The company’s flagship is its Research and Development Center set up a few years ago in order to develop new technological solutions and prototypes.
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After investing in its organization and information systems the company has decided to pay a special attention to environmental problems.
A first significant step in this direction has been the implementation, a few years ago, of a 60 kw photovoltaic system.
A second important change has been the choice to use in the production process only raw materials certifiedaccording to the REACH Regulation.
Furthermore, the company has decided to sell “repairable” machines instead of the “disposable” ones provided by many competitors that create significant problems of refuse disposal to customers. But not satisfied with these improvements Tosingraf has decided to launch a project to further reduce its environmental impact and the costs due to any kind of existing waste.
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The first step of the project has been the identification of scraps, wastes, refuse, emissions produced in all areas of the company, not only by production and logistics, but also by office work.
As a consequence of this analysis a number of actions aimed at eliminating the above waste have been decided and implemented. In addition a complete system of differentiated refuse collection has been implemented.
In order to measure the environmental impact the company has decided to use the OSR indicator (Overall Sustainability Ratio), a synthetic measure proposed by its consultants of GC&P. This indicator is the ratio between the resources consumed and those transformed into saleable products, the difference between them being clearly due to emissions, waste, scraps and refuse. The higher the value of OSR, the more virtuous the company is in terms of environmental impact. Through a systematic measure of the OSR it is possible to understand if the company is making progress in its attempt to reduce its environmental impact. It is right and proper to add that the project has been partially financed with public funds provided by Veneto Region, an example of good use of public funds.
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As a result of the project production scraps have been significantly reduced and all kinds of waste are measured and systematically reviewed. The refuse collection system has been significantly improved installing clearly visible garbage bin and scrap containers. The OSR indicator is now determined on a quarterly basis. One of the best results has been an improved consciousness of the importance of waste elimination both for society as a whole and for the best interest of the company.