GranTerre, a player in the made in Italy food sector active in the production of cured meats and aged cheeses, and the Hera group, signed a framework agreement for decarbonisation aimed at putting the skills that the multi-utility has developed over the years at the service of the food group in the field of innovative and integrated solutions for energy efficiency, energy production (including renewable sources ) and the management of the water cycle.
Agreement for energy efficiency and decarbonisation
The agreement, finalized this morning in the presence of the CEO of the Hera group Orazio Iacono, the CEO of GranTerre Giuliano Carletti and the chairman of CPL Concordia Paolo Barbieri, has an efficiency potential to achieve which investments are planned for approximately 20 million euros over the next 5 yearsthe. GranTerre, owner of brands such as Teneroni, Parmareggio, Senfter and many others with 18 production sites in Italy and an advanced logistics base, aims to impress an acceleration of its sustainability path and build a large number of plants capable of improving the energy efficiency and resilience of production processes. To study, design and create them in the best possible way, Hera Servizi Energia will combine its skills with those of Cpl Concordia, another large industrial entity in the area, specialized in the design, construction, management and maintenance of energy systems.
“There are many directions that – under the signed agreement – the Hera group, GranTerre and CPL Concordia will be able to explore to make the production processes of the food group increasingly sustainable: the construction of photovoltaic plants without soil consumption, cogeneration plants and trigeneration and, more generally, the wide range of technologies capable of rationalizing consumption and guaranteeing an increase in energy efficiency in the industrial context. All useful solutions for the decarbonisation of energy consumption in the Italian production sites of the GranTerre group, which however are accompanied by the study, by the Hera group, of more frontier design hypotheses, such as the production and use of biomethane, biogas and green hydrogen”, reads the joint note released by the companies which estimate, taking into consideration all the production sites of GranTerre present in 5 Italian regions, a increase in self-production energy that within 5 years will pass from the current 27% to 50% of the expected energy needs.
First step: feasibility studies
Not surprisingly, the first practical transfer of the agreement signed today will consist of a series of feasibility studies by the Hera group, supported by the expertise of CPL Concordia, which will take into consideration the balances of energy needs (electricity, heat and refrigeration) of GranTerre, but also of the self-production technologies installed, a careful environmental balance in terms of CO2 for each of the solutions identified and a technical-economic analysis of each proposal.
"The agreement signed is fully part of our sustainable development policies and will certainly give important benefits, both from an economic and environmental point of view", he explained the CEO of GranTerre Spa Giuliano Carletti.
“Climate change requires our company, and more generally the economic system, to accelerate initiatives to decarbonise and stimulate the circular economy in support of the ecological transition,” he said Orazio Iacono, CEO of the Hera group. According to the manager, the agreement signed with GranTerre "will allow this important industrial player to access innovative solutions to reduce its carbon footprint, while at the same time having full guarantee of economic and social sustainability".
“We are proud to be able to support two prestigious local companies such as the GranTerre group and the Hera group by placing all our interdisciplinary skills at their complete disposal in the fields of energy efficiency, the construction of high-tech plants and their subsequent management and maintenance,” he said Paolo Barbieri, president of CPL Concordia.
