Month: February 2022

Article taken from: Nueva Pescanova

Nueva Pescanova Group will become the first company in the sector to use plastic waste collected on beaches and coastal areas and transform it into packaging through an advanced recycling process, preventing it from contaminating seas and oceans, thus giving them a second life.

The company will begin to use these new containers from the second quarter of the year in some of the products of the Pescanova brand. They will be made of 90% plastic materials collected from riverbeds and areas up to 50 kilometers from the coast.

Thanks to this project, it will be possible to recover around 10 tons of plastic waste, mostly large fragments, before they reach the sea, break into smaller fragments and cause devastating damage to the marine environment and its species. To do this, it has partnered with SABIC, a leading global company in the chemical industry and a pioneer in the production of certified circular polymers.

In the words of Ignacio González, CEO of the Nueva Pescanova Group, “As a seafood company we have a great responsibility to care for the seas and oceans, ecosystems on which our activity depends and that we must all take care of. With this initiative we will prevent this plastic waste from reaching the marine environment, giving it a new life. We have set ourselves the goal of achieving 100% of our packaging to be recyclable by 2025 and, through this action, we will take another step to achieve it”.

This initiative is part of the ‘Pescanova Blue’ Sustainability Program, an integrated plan of initiatives designed to conduct and document responsible action and the sustainable use of natural resources throughout the company’s entire value chain: fishing, cultivation, processing and marketing.

The Nueva Pescanova Group is a company linked to the Principles for a Sustainable Ocean of the United Nations Global Compact, with which the multinational guarantees responsible practices with the oceans in the 19 countries in which it is present.

Article taken from: Nueva Pescanova

Continuing the vision of our commitment to the sustainable management of resources, the Nueva Pescanova Group has made advances in its commitment to the energy transition by incorporating two new solar parks in its factories in Valencia.

The plant located in Paterna, which is dedicated to the processing of cod, has 543 panels with a power of 242 kWp, which represents an estimated annual energy production of 362,968 kWh. The Catarroja factory, which specializes in the production of vannamei shrimp and cephalopods, has 444 solar modules with a power of 200 kWp and an annual energy of 300,693 kWh. Between the two plants, they will generate more than 660,000 kWh of energy per year through solar energy, which will mean savings equivalent to the average electricity consumption of nearly 180 homes in Spain. Additionally, these new installations launched in collaboration with EiDF will have a positive impact on air quality and a reduction in the carbon footprint, avoiding CO2 emissions. The carbon footprint reduction is the equivalent of planting more than 16,500 trees.

In 2019, the company began its commitment to solar energy with the installation of solar panels in its factories in Lüderitz and Walvis Bay in Namibia. The commitment continued in 2020 with the industrial centers of Chapela and Porriño, Arteixo, the turbot production plant in Xove, and the Pescanova Biomarine Center. With the addition of the industrial centers of Valencia, there is a total of nine photovoltaic solar parks, which is more than half of the Nueva Pescanova Group factories around the world. The parks contain a total of 42,000 square meters of photovoltaic modules that generate energy for self-consumption of more than 12,400,000 kWh per year, which is the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 3,330 homes in Spain.