Certitex certification for Radici Yarn

18/03/2009
Radici Yarn SpA, an Italian company belonging to the RadiciGroup Fibres business group, has obtained UNI EN ISO 14001:2004 certification for its environmental management system related to the development, manufacture and marketing of polyamide 6 polymer and polyamide 6 and 66 masterbatches, staple fibre and continuous filament yarn at its Villa d'Ogna (BG) and Pistoia (PT) production sites.
 
Certitex, an independent certification organisation for the textile and clothing industry, audited Radici Yarnpolyamide 6 polymerisation, POY and FOY spinning, staple spinning and masterbatch production at the Villa d'Ogna site and the polyamide 66 POY spinning process at the
PIstoia
site. Certitex also checked the sorting, packaging and shipping processes at both sites.

"We want to make a tangible contribution to the safeguarding and improvement of our environment and the use of its natural resources, while ensuring the total sustainability of the group’s manufacturing activities,” said Oscar Novali, Radici Yarn managing director. “As required by the standard, we defined our environmental goals and objectives and implemented a system that could effectively avert and manage the most significant negative environmental impacts of the various industrial activities carried on at our production sites."