BUSINESS
Třinec ironworks
to decrease dust emissions
In 2018, the steel producer Třinecké železárny is implementing ecological projects worth 900 million
CZK. Investments in de-dusting in raw material processing started last year will be finished. They
include two projects of the central vacuum collector at both agglomerations, and the construction of
a filtering station at the slag mill. Within the framework of the ecological project of the Operational
Programme “Environment,” two more projects, exceeding 700 million CZK, were approved for the
upcoming period.
Třinecké železárny has invested considerable sums in
measures improving air pollution in recent years. The
greatest part of the investments (2,600 million CZK)
was spent in 2013–2015 on facilities to de-dust the
largest and most-polluting operations. These measures
reduced total dust emissions from Třinecké železárny
by app. 75%.
Třinecké železárny signed a voluntary agreement with
the government of the Moravian-Silesian Region and the
Ministry of the Environment to annually pay for curative
stays for children in the Tatra Mountains, totalling
1,500 million CZK in addition to the aforementioned
investments in new technologies. Another 3 million
CZK will be spent spent on cleaning the streets and
another 3 million on the maintenance and planting of
urban greenery. “We are fully aware of the impact that
the industrial production has on the air and environment
of citizens of our city. That is why we want the plants
to use the best existing technologies to ecologize their
operation, as well as provide many other measures to
improve the situation,” says CEO Jan Czudek.
Text a foto:
archiv Třinecké železárny
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