HELLENIC CABLES Member of CENERGY HOLDINGS

«Reduce, Reuse, Recycle» is a three-bottom line activity in HELLENIC CABLES, implemented in order to preserve natural resources and prevent pollution.

Local communities, customers,employees, business partners, suppliers and the State.

Continuous, up to date

HELLENIC CABLES developed a three-bottom line activity in order to use materials with environmentally friendly properties for manufacturing products:

• Reduce (efficient use of raw and supporting materials).
• Reuse (reuse materials and packaging).
• Recycle (recycle as much as possible).

The Company attempts to make coordinated efforts in order to use efficiently renewable and not renewable raw and secondary materials for manufacturing and distributing its products. Reuse of metals (aluminium and copper) is a characteristic example. These metals constitute the raw materials for cable manufacture. By remelting aluminium and copper scrap the need for raw materials procurement is reduced.

The Company reuses pallets, drums (wood packaging for inserting cables for safe transportation) and reels (plastic packaging for enamelled wires), reclaiming them from the customers (after using the cable), thus leading to significant savings of timber and reuse of plastic. Our Company ensures the efficient use of water supplies restricting consumption to the minimum feasible level. Especially, in the company’s production plant in Corinthia, where the production processes require increased water consumption, we constantly use and reuse sea water as a cooling mean. In 2013 52.067 m3 of water were reused in Cable and Aluminium Rod Manufacture Units and 333,433 m3, of water in Copper Rod Manufacture Unit.

During cable manufacture residues remain at our plants, usually in the form of small solid cable clippings which are next segregated in basic materials and returned in recycling industries. PE is recycled, while the remaining part is made available to appropriately licensed waste managers that collaborate with the Company.

We cooperate with companies for waste management (collection, transportation, recovery, and disposal) that have all the necessary licenses and follow management practices in accordance with the current legislation. We also cooperate with all approved alternative waste management systems, such as EEAA and ECOELASTIKA.

Employee involvement is an important success factor for all actions related to saving natural resources.

In all company's plants in Inofita, Thiva, Leivadia, Viotia and Corinth

In 2013, we proceeded in remelting 1.093,3 tons of copper scrap and 494,963 tons of aluminium. Furthermore, 13,3% of total packaging materials, was reused. In 2013, 52.067 m3 of water were reused in Cable and Aluminium Rod Manufacture Units and 333,433 m3, of water in Copper Rod Manufacture Unit. The total use of water was 193.000 m3. Within 2013, 96, 81% of HELLENIC CABLES and 76, 85% of FULGOR waste was recycled.

Protecting natural resources and reducing production cost. The company complies with effective environmental legislation, therefore assures the elimination of environmental accidents or complaint and, consequently, no enforcement of fines.