The thermal power station owned by the Grupo HUNOSA at La Pereda (Mieres) has succeeded in replacing 30% of the fuel which it usually uses (coal and mine dumps) with pellets made from vegetal wastes without losing performance. The tests, included within the so-called “Pellet-In” program, which is being coordinated by the trust, FAEN, have as their objective to open the doors to the industrial exploit of biomass in thermal power stations.
The raw-tobacco company Compañía Española de Tabaco en Rama (CETARSA) has consolidated itself during the 2012 harvest as the company around which revolves the industry. During the 2012 harvest, the tobacco company has increased by 20% its purchasing levels thanks to the agreements reached with the manufacturing companies, which will allow it to maintain in the next harvests these high purchasing levels as the best sustainability guarantee for the tobacco farming industry.
The company Sociedad Anónima Estatal de Caución Agraria (SAECA), of Grupo SEPI, has concluded a Collaboration Agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment and with the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), whose goal is that of promoting the access of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) belonging to the primary sector to financing.
Grupo TRAGSA took part today in the first Spanish-Portuguese forest-fire drill carried out over a 15 square kilometers surface between Marvaõ (Portugal) and Valencia de Alcántara (Cáceres), an area with a large ecological value which has suffered frequent forest fires.
The thermal power station of La Pereda succeeds in replacing 30% of its fuel with wood pellets without losing performance
CETARSA increases by 20% its purchasing levels in the 2012 harvest
SAECA becomes a party to the ICO lines for facilitating the financing to farmers and stockbreeders
Grupo TRAGSA tests its software EMERCARTO in the first Spanish-Portuguese wildfire drill
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