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UNEX working environment considerably improved for foundry personnel
A project with significant social and environmental impact has been supported by the European Fund for Regional Development and the National Fund for the Environment.
Uničov, November 3, 2009
The UNEX engineering-metallurgical complex is completing the “Exhaustion and Stabilisation of Combustion Products from Electric Arc Furnaces” project, the aim of which is the improvement of employee working conditions and minimising the escape of dust particles into the ambient atmosphere in its UNEX Foundry subsidiary company. The project, with a value exceeding CZK 15 million, was substantially supported by the European Fund for Regional Development and the National Fund for the Environment of the Czech Republic.
The project has a significant positive social and ecological impact both on UNEX and the complete region.
New hygienic limits, according to which emissions of solid contaminating particles in a working site may not exceed the value 10 mg/m3, will come into effect from 2010. Thanks to an improved exhaustion system, the plant for production of cast steel will fully comply with such conditions. If this was not the case, the production would have to be shut down and would particularly affect a group of narrowly specialised operators with an inferior possibility of assertion in the labour market.
The modernisation of technology for the production of cast steel will bring an improvement to the competitiveness of the company which, consequently, may have a positive effect upon employment within the region. It will also result in the reduction of iron ore consumption, making the melting process more effective and eliminating typical problems associated with iron ore handling (dustiness, transport...).
From the viewpoint of the environment, the low energy demand and minimising of the emissions of solid contaminating substances are the main advantages of the selected technology – a reduction of approximately 3.3 ton/year of emissions into the atmosphere will result from the implementation of the project.
