Environmental impact
Scana Industrier ASA manufacture and work with, among other things, steel and other alloys. We realise that as a player in this market, we contribute both considerably to recycling – and produce discharges to the outer environment. It is a fact that the world needs steel, and we see it as our task to supply as cleanly a manufactured product as possible, avoiding a negative impact on the environment.
STEEL
Steel production is in essence a recycling industry, where a lot of scrap metal is recycled. On the other hand, energy is spent in recycling.
Björneborg
Scana Steel Björneborg meets the goals of the Scana group, having the smallest possible impact on the environment. As a concrete measure, scrap steel is recycled, chiefly collected from local suppliers, at a distance of maximum 150 km. The company is ISO 9001 certified.
Throughout 2010, Björneborg has fulfilled all governmental and customer demands regarding environmental discharges. Scana Steel Björneborg AB has a railroad track leading into the production area and can deliver products by rail. This means of transport reduces emissions to air. During 2011, Björneborg will make a survey of the energy utilisation at our facilities.
Stavanger
The company is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified. One of our main suppliers, FOSECO, has named us the most environmental friendly foundry in Europe. This claim is built upon our choice of forming sand, binding agents and hardeners. The company continually employs new routines to reduce negative impact on the environment, be it waste management, filtering and reductions. Measurements are done regularly according to international standards. In 2011, a new sea based depot for sand from the production process will reduce discharges and transport.
Söderfors
The environmental impact from Söderfors is mainly through emissions to air and water, in addition to waste. Throughout the year, Söderfors has fulfilled all govern-ment demands and there has been no incidents or unwanted discharges. During 2010, Scana Steel Söder-fors has been working on updating our environ--mental handbook, targeted towards an ISO 14001 certification. Among other things, this entails strengthe-ning our routines for handling chemicals and deciding which ones to utilize in the company. Our relations with Björneborg have also been strengthened throughout the year.
Booforge
Booforge is a company with long traditions, but works determinedly towards modernising and reducing any negative impact on the environment. In the recent years, the company has made rather large environmental changes and also changed production routines. We are also changing to lessen energy consumption.
Booforge continually measures our oil consumption to incite lower consumption and make production more effective.
Leshan
Leshan Scana is situated in the middle of a Chinese region of about four million people. The company was earlier an old state driven business, responsible for a great deal of pollution, mainly because everything was coal based. Around the turn of millennium the company converted to electrical and gas power, and by the end of 2007, a dust collection system was installed on the entire facilty. The company runs entirely on hydropower generated from a nearby river. Our environmental initiative in China runs at a high global level, and could have been transferred anywhere in the world.
For measurements and so-called non-destructive testing (NDT), the steel companies use chemicals in controlled environments to verify the surface of steel constructions. Chemicals are disposed as special waste. The companies are preoccupied with good control over chemical usage.
MARINE
Scana’s marine business area consists mainly of high-technological manufacture, having little or no negative impact on the environment.
Volda
Scana Volda’s production yields products that are contributing to the protection and safeguard of the environment, crew and load. Among our products, we find emergency electromotors for chemical tankers and flexible solutions to make engines run more environmentally friendly. Optimisation of engine usage is a continuing ambition for the company.
Zamech
The company further develops with regard to future environmental and market related requirements through our cooperation with Scana Volda’s gear and propeller technology and remote controlled systems from Scana Mar-El.
Skarpenord
The production of hydraulic actuators and systems at Skarpenord yields no negative discharges. The waste from the production is scrap iron/metal and is sold as scrap metal. This is both environmentally friendly and provides income. The company mainly uses electrical power for the production, but some diesel fuel is used for heating the production halls.
OIL & GAS
Offshore Technology
Scana Offshore Technology repairs equipment and is ISO 9001 certified. Our activity has very little negative impact on the outer environment, but we continually monitor and prepare new measurable standards to how our activity may have an impact on the environment.
Offshore Vestby
The company was established in 1953, but has moved to modern production halls. The company has today no negative discharges or emissions to the environment, neither water, nor air. With regard to thermal treatment, the company now builds new premises according to present regulations. Offshore Vestby is also a competence and design company that has no negative impact on the outer environment
