Metafrax Spent More Than 110 Million Roubles for the Environment Protection In 2016
PJSC Metafrax published its environmental activity report for 2016. In this year, the current general expenses of the company for the environment protection made 110.4 million roubles.
Metafrax defines the environment protection activities as the priority in the company’s development. In the last year, the company carried out its activities in three directions: atmospheric air protection, water consumption and waste management.
8554 ton of contaminants were neutralized at twenty gas treatment and dust separation facilities. Warnings about expected adverse weather conditions from Perm Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Center had also allowed to decrease the contaminants emissions by 22.8 ton. In the end, the atmospheric emissions made 45% of the permitted annual value.
Besides, the company controlled the atmospheric air state in the nearest residential areas – Severny settlement and the city of Gubakha. In both of these locations, during this year, the specialists took 2809 samples and did not find any of the statutory limits exceedances.
Metafrax is an aid-man of the Kosva river that uses its own treatment units to treat all utility fluids and the most of industrial fluids in the city of Gubakha. In 2016, 4.95 million cubical meters of fluids had been treated.
In the last year, the quantity of emissions made 2360 tons. 230.8 tons of which had been used by the company, 213 tons had been given to the third party companies for using and decontamination, 502 tons of unhazardous and low-hazardous emissions had been buried.
Vladimir Daut, PJSC Metafrax General Director:
The environment protection is the overriding priority of Metafrax activities. We carry-out the monitoring to track the ecological situation, analyse the atmospheric air and water objects state and define the performed activities efficiency on a regular basis. Also, we continue to invest into the equipment modernisation. In the last year, we channelled more than 15 million roubles for the treatment units modernization; the units are used by our company and by whole Gubakha. For us, the decreasing of effluents is not just the company activities statistics, but the life quality of the area people. We try to do everything we can to provide safe and comfortable live for the district people.