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well as to security and technical profiles,
and all the other ecotoxicological information GreenItaly 2020: Ratti among the leading
for the supplier (see also the box “ZDHC, the
international programme for eliminating harmful companies in sustainability
chemical substances”).
Ratti has been added to the itself states. GreenItaly is a report
eleventh edition of GreenItaly produced annually on the value of
Careful management of discharges (2020), the report on the green the Green Economy.
economy produced every year It describes how Italy has
With regard to the quality of wastewater, Ratti SpA
by Symbola, Fondazione della been able to respond to great
monitors its parameters by carrying out
Qualità Italiana (Italian Quality environmental challenges in
three-monthly analyses of the water, at the
Foundation) and UnionCamere, terms of innovation and research,
discretion of the purification plant, in addition to with the support of the Ministry of creating economic value for both
analyses required twice a year by the ZDHC (Zero the Environment. companies and the country.
Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals) and once a
year by the Autorizzazione Unica Ambientale With its 77,691 companies, Since 2010 GreenItaly has been an
(Single Environmental Authorisation). Lombardy is in first place in Italy indispensable tool for ascertaining
in the regional ranking of the the numbers, territories and
In the Textrom plant in Romania, the analyses number of companies that have sectors of the Italian green
invested in green technologies, economy and, above all, for
of wastewater quality are carried out annually,
“as the best possible response to analysing and understanding the
as prescribed.
the period of crisis we are living leading role that Made in Italy can
through, showing, in this way, that play in the international market by
In 2020 activities leading to greater efficiency for
it is able to lead an Italy ready for emphasising sustainability.
water resources used in the process, which as a the recovery fund”, as the report
consequence involved a greater concentration
of substances in wastewater, caused, in a limited
number of cases, the prescribed thresholds
to be breached (4 values out of 113 parameters
analysed for just the Ratti SpA site).
In addition, the lack of continuity due to COVID-19 The new metal-free antibacterial fabrics
issues meant that manufacturing was not
continuous and wastewater was not, therefore, During 2020 Ratti installed metal-free anti-bacterial finishing which is ef-
well homogenised. fective on silk, cotton and nylon fabrics, which can stand three dry washes
and 20 wet washes. In addition to this, the product complies with the ZDHC
These episodes did not, however, impact the (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals).
quality of surface water bodies, thanks to the
treatment carried out by purification plants The project was proposed by the Ratti Group in the face of the health
emergency and was carried out on certain orders in response to a specific
downstream. Cases of limit breaches reported by
customer request.
the water purification plant did not compromise
the operation of the plant and, being only slightly
above the levels set by the regulations, did not
require formal notification to the authority. The analyses show that MRSL substances
have been eliminated from the production cycle.
In March and September 2020 Ratti SpA
carried out the water campaign required by For Ratti SpA, the procedure for managing water
the ZDHC protocol, which involved an analysis derived from manufacturing carried out at the
of MRSL (Manufacturing Restricted Substance plant, including that from bathroom facilities,
List) parameters as well as those that are key requires it to be channelled through the internal
according to the ZDHC programme collection network, where it is filtered (through
(see the box “ZDHC, the international programme bar screens) in a number of phases and pumped
for eliminating harmful chemical substances”). into the accumulation basin of the system, before