
Lucía Unamunzaga
“Eco-innovation is key to progress, the meeting point between the needs of the industry and social policies in favor of a more efficient model in terms of costs and use of resources.”
Sustainability and Environment
The Sustainability and Environment team develops new knowledge, technologies and processes to improve relevant aspects related to the manufacturing of metallic parts, such as the management of industrial #waste, the #energy efficiency of manufacturing and transformation processes, the reduction of #emissions or the creation of safer and #healthier work-spaces..

Environmental Liability Law reactivated: compulsory financial guarantee for the metal production and transformation sectors
Since the Spanish Environmental Liability Law (Law 26/2007) was published in 2007, the legal framework

MONOZUKURI and Foundry: an industry committed to its social and environmental context and to a high quality production
The Japanese word Monozukuri captures the true spirit of companies like Toyota and Nissan in

New Furan no-bake binders to reduce the formaldehyde emission levels in the processes
The emissions of hazardous substances generated by the use of chemical binders represent today one

Advanced sustainable foundry – Carbon balance and carbon footprint in foundry processes and foundry product cycles
Carbon footprint analysis (CFA) is a sophisticated environmental method to evaluate the impact of the

Local steps to reduce the impact generated by traffic
The Department for Environment and Sustainability at IK4-AZTERLAN has taken part in the activity programme

Waste From Metallurgic Industry: A Sustainable High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage Material
The ambitious DOE SunShot cost target ($0.06/kWh) for concentrated solar power (CSP) requires innovative concepts

Atmospheric particulate matter related to industrial processes
Origin, levels and physical-chemicals properties Every day it seems clearer that the environmental factor