ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS.
The principle point of the environmental policy of the company, GRUPO ALVIC
FR, S.L., is the continuous application of a strategy of prevention, as much in
the processes as in products, with the objective to reduce to the minimum,
using the technology available, the impact on the environment, giving special
emphasis on the service life of the product, from raw materials to the future
elimination of the furniture, once obsolete. All this, without leaving aside the
levels of necessary security and quality for commercialization. This
environmental policy of the company GROUP ALVIC FR is translated in the
study of the following applicable recommendations in the different phases of the
service life of the product (ACV):
1.- Components or significant priorities of the product for the environment.
A part of the raw material that is used for the elaboration of the melamine
boards, from which we make our office furniture, is recycled; concretely it
comes from sawdust, wooden pallets, rolls of pine, ends of trunks and chips
from power saws. In addition, defective and obsolete pieces of melamine board
are also recycled, as detailed in point 3 below.
In order to achieve an environmentally sustainable management of forests
worldwide, the companies that comprise WWW-Grupo 2000, among them
GRUPO ALVIC FR, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, intend to gradually replace
wood and the derivatives of forest non-certificated with wood from known origin
and, later, by registered wood that fulfils the principles of the PFEC; which
evidently is a long and expensive process.
The final objective is that all phases sourcing and manufacture of wood-based
products comply with the principles of the PFEC which is that all wood-based
products can be traced back to their forest of origin. For this reason, our
company GRUPO ALVIC FR MOBILIARIO, S.L., has obtained the PEFC rule
with number PEFC/14-35-00047 since 16/02/2009.
2. Aspects of product’s use
Our company applies product’s policies focused to increase the services of the
product. The above mentioned measures, designed to improve the life cycle of
the product, reverberate in improvements at the moment of generating residues
for the Environment. These measures contain three basic aspects: possibility of
combination and variation based on a system of totally modular design of our
furniture. Secondly, simplicity in the cleanliness and maintenance of our
products, use and managing. And finally, the choice of quality components as
well as the facility of obtaining refill.
3. Possibility of furniture recycling or furniture components recycling
Any furniture that has remained obsolete and which components could not be
re-used in the productive process of new models is submitted to our manager of
residues, who, by means of the recycling and valuation, allows that they could
be commercialized and delivered again, as raw material, to other suppliers for
its reincorporation to the system. It is in this aspect that the life cycle of our
furniture, or, from the cradle to the tomb, it reduces notably the environmental
impact.
4. Conclusion
The will of our company is to promote the design, the production and the use of raw
materials that reduce considerably the environmental impact, favouring the recovery or
reutilization of the products that we commercialize, once already obsolete.