Ence’s biofactory in Navia constitutes an economic and industrial activity engine in Western Asturias, being at the same time a benchmark in sustainability and care for the environment. In this sense, and to continue participating in sustainable industrial development and at the same time promote the structuring of the territory, Ignacio Colmenares, president of Ence, has signed a protocol with the Principality of Asturias and other companies based in the area for the execution of new hydraulic infrastructures in the naviego estuary.
The agreement was signed at the Casino de Navia by the vice president and counselor for Regional Administration, Environment and Climate Change, Juan Cofiño; the president of Ence, Ignacio Colmenares; the delegate of the industrial area of Industrias Lácteas Asturianas (Illas), Ricardo González; and by the CEO of Biogastur Generatión Navia (BGN), Francisco Sanmartín. The Deputy Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Nieves Roqueñí, and the Mayor of Navia, Ignacio García Palacios, also attended.
This protocol will be valid for one year and may be extended for another three. It will facilitate the identification and development of options, both technical and layout, to undertake a project that allows optimizing the management of effluents through a new submarine outfall.
As Ignacio Colmenares pointed out in his speech, the signing of this protocol is a good example of how the Administration and the private sector must “work with a vision of the future, so that companies can invest, generate wealth and maintain activity”, he indicated.
The promotion of new infrastructures will allow progress in the sustainable development of the industry in the area. In this sense, Ence’s biofactory constitutes a paradigm of contribution to the circular economy: throughout the cellulose production process, the plant produces and operates with materials of natural origin, renewable and recyclable. At the same time, it is self-sufficient with renewable electrical energy from biomass using lignin, a component of wood that constitutes an excellent renewable and natural biofuel, as well as forest debris.
In this way, the more than 6,900 jobs linked to Ence Navia contribute with their daily work, to reduce energy intensity and carbon footprint, advancing on the path of ecological transition and contributing to the development of rural areas, through of sustainable job creation.
