The aluminum? It’s always greener

“Ductile metal of silver color”. This is what any student, any teenager struggling with the usual science homework, mineralogy chapter, would read. Chapter after chapter, paragraph after paragraph, ten, one hundred, one thousand, millions of students have grown up and together with them, aluminum has also grown and learned to be even more ductile. Now it is capable of infinite regeneration while maintaining the same physical characteristics: regenerating or, better, “reborn” through the recycling of materials that have reached the end of their life. In doing so – thus being reborn – the energy used for its production drops by 95%. You read that right: given one hundred consumption for the production of “primary” aluminium, the energy needed for recycled aluminum is reduced to five. Not bad, especially if you consider that the material thus obtained does not lose any of the peculiarities of primary aluminium. Less energy, less CO emissions₂.

Aluminum has grown, it has become big, it’s “green”! Is it always and everywhere like this? And then… did he do it all by himself? The answer is no, both for the first and for the second question: it depends who, it depends where.

For the “where” you have to go to Piedmont, to Volpiano, in the province of Turin. Here the “who” responds to the name of Freesia Aluminum SpA, a leading Italian company in the design and marketing of eco-sustainable, high energy efficiency systems for aluminum windows. Windows, facades, doors, small doors, dimming systems, balustrades…

It all started with Ezio Freesia which he founded in the 1970s Freesia Aluminium, a point of reference for those in Turin who needed to carry out work related to fixtures. Now after 50 years, the company led by Ezio Freesia with his children Valentino and Cristina is one of the most important companies in the sector of high energy efficiency aluminum windows.

Let’s go back to “him”, to aluminum. And let’s go back to talking about percentages: 85%. An important number for the Company, since it represents an arrival point but also a starting point: various systems, both for casement and sliding doors, and for curtain walls, will be produced in the NEO version with a percentage of recycled aluminum salt, in fact, up to 85%. The NEO range is one of the flagships of Fresia Alluminio which, not surprisingly, enjoys the statement EPD® (Environmental Product Declaration), recognition of international importance issued by the Swedish Environmental Management Council. The NEO Range also meets the mandatory requirements of the Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) contained in the Green Procurement Decree for Public Administrations.

Ductile silver-coloured metal… something has changed in Volpiano’s: the aluminum is tinged with green. Aluminum is “green” and is part of the action plan that the Company has drawn up in compliance with the UN Agenda 2030: a plan for people, for prosperity; a plan and a pact between people, businesses and institutions to guarantee a better present and, above all, a better future for our planet. We can read all of this, and not only this, in the 2021 Sustainability Report of Fresia Alluminio.

Last but not least, Fresia Alluminio products are in the running for another prestigious certification: Cradle-to-cradle, C2C. From cradle to cradle. A model that takes into account the Circular Economy, dealing with every aspect of the production processes paying attention to the social implications, efficiency, waste reduction, thus avoiding the production of waste as much as possible.

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