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The CEO of CATOR signing a contract to develop a research project to improve the quality of regenerated oils and the marketing of both domestic and international markets.
The project will be developed by researchers CiTQ (Center for Innovation in Chemical Technology) at its facilities in Tarragona.

   
Asesoría gestión SIGAUS increases its used oil management capacity - December 2008
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Asesoría gestión The lubricant oil: a waste with a lot of lifes - December 2008

Article publified in a spezial edition of the newpaper La Vanguardia, 9th December 2008

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New European Norm: Directive 2008/98/EC of 19 November on waste - November 2008

DIRECTIVE 2008/98/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives

This new directive gives the base for a future Norm that allows to controll better the lubricant waste oils management, limiting the transboundary shipment for incineration and priorizing the material valuation, that's the regeneration. In general lines, PREVENTS THE MASSIVE ENERGETICAL VALUATION.

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(44) In the interests of the simplification of Community legislation and the reflection of environmental benefits, the relevant provisions of Council Directive 75/439/EEC of 16 June 1975 on the disposal of waste oils (1) should be integrated into this Directive. Directive 75/439/EEC should therefore be repealed. The management of waste oils should be conducted in accordance with the priority order of the waste hierarchy, and preference should be given to options that deliver the best overall environmental outcome. The separate collection of waste oils remains crucial to their proper management and the prevention of damage to the environment from their improper disposal.

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Article 21 Waste oils

1. Without prejudice to the obligations related to the management of hazardous waste laid down in Articles 18 and 19, Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that:

(a) waste oils are collected separately, where this is technically feasible;

(b) waste oils are treated in accordance with Articles 4 and 13;

(c) where this is technically feasible and economically viable, waste oils of different characteristics are not mixed and waste oils are not mixed with other kinds of waste or substances, if such mixing impedes their treatment.

2. For the purposes of separate collection of waste oils and their proper treatment, Member States may, according to their national conditions, apply additional measures such as technical requirements, producer responsibility, economic instruments or voluntary agreements.

3. If waste oils, according to national legislation, are subject to requirements of regeneration, Member States may prescribe that such waste oils shall be regenerated if technically feasible and, where Articles 11 or 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 apply, restrict the transboundary shipment of waste oils from their territory to incineration or co-incineration facilities in order to give priority to the regeneration of waste oils.

[...]

For complete Directive see DOEU L312 de 22.11.2008

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Asesoría gestión CATOR takes part in the "Workshop of the Global Compact" in Barcelona - Novembre 2008

The Global Compact Spain Net organized the last 13th November in ESADE Barcelona a "Workshop for the right introduction of the 10 principles in the COP" in which CATOR took part with the objective

* help to the realization of the COP,

* establish a coherency between diagnostic, politics, actions, ... and

* clear concepts to help the participants of the Global Compact.

It was a very instructive Workshop based in the experience of BT España.

More Information in the Press Note of Global Compact Spain.
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Asesoría gestión Mediterranean Workshop on used lubricant oils: collection and treatment - Novembre 2008

During the Mediterranean Workshop on used lubricant oils that took place in Barcelona the days 3 and 5 of November 2008, the participants visited the facility of CATOR in Alcover (provinz Tarragona)

In this workshop promoted by MAP (Mediterranean Action Plan) took part participants of countries like Cyprus, Greece, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, ...

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Asesoría gestión Solidarity actions in Nicaragua and Honduras - October 2008

CATOR cooperates again with two new projects of International cooperation promoted by Mediterrània-Centre d'Iniciatives Ecològiques, Fundació Mare Terra in Nicaragua and Honduras for the 2009.

The project in Nicaragua is to ofer microcredits to the HOGAR DE NIÑAS CRISTO OBRERO and in Honduras to support the ODONTOLOGICAL TEMS to serve round 18.000 people in one year.

More information under Mediterrània-CIE

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Emergency Drill Plan - July 2008

One more year, our refining plant has been the scene of an exercise to test de emergency management plan of CATOR. This exercise provides realistic training for all emergency management personnel.

The exercise was about to extinguish again a simulated fire in our Module III of the distillation unit with an injured worker. Everyone collaborated: CATOR’s staff, external staff, CENCAT, Fire department of the Northern Estate,… We thank everyone!

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Asesoría gestión Industrial Waste Oils: a new concept of integral management - June 2008
Article published at the ENVIRONMENTAL SUPLEMENT of the Newspaper DIARI AVUI 21st June 2008
 
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Asesoría gestión Staff of CATOR has ended the Training Programm for Fire Rescue - June 2008
 

Queremos felicitar al personal de CATOR que ha participado y finalizado con éxito el Curso de Bomberos de Empresa realizado en el Parque de Bomberos Polígono Norte y homologado por la Generalitat de Catalunya.

Este curso corresponde a la formación prevista en el artículo 12 del Decreto 374/1996, de 2 de diciembre, de regulación de bomberos de empresa (DOGC nº 2291 de 11/12/1996) y tiene como objetivo final capacitat a los bomberos de empresa para realizar labores de prevención, extinción de incencios y salvamentos en situaciones de emergencia con la finalidad de proteger la vida del trabajadors y reducir las consecuencias del siniestro sobre los bienes materiales.

Contenido del curso:

  1. Lugar de trabajo
  2. Conocimiento del Territorio
  3. Protección y seguridad
  4. Ciencias Aplicadas
  5. Incendios industriales
  6. Salvamentos y rescates
  7. Riesgo Químico
  8. Atención sanitaria inmediata

El curso ha tenido una duración de 150 horas en el que a parte de la teoría se han hecho pruebas con fuego real, rescate en edificios, primeros auxilios, etc.

 
 
   
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Asesoría gestión CATOR colaborates in the campaign "Alcover recycles - Selective collection of vegetable oils" - May 2008

El Ayuntamiento de Alcover ha iniciado una campaña para la recogida selectiva de aceite doméstico, el aceite vegetal que se genera en las cocinas de las casas, bares, restaurantes, hoteles, ...del pueblo.

CATOR, aunque sólo recicle aceite mineral, ha querido colaborar en esta campaña para ayudar a conseguir que todos los habitantes se impliquen directamente en el reciclaje de los residuos y colaboren en el Desarrollo Sostenible de Alcover.

Con esta campaña se han repartido unas 700 botellas financiadas por CATOR y debidamente identificadas con un código de barras, de forma que en el Punto Limpio de Alcover, mediante un lector, podrán contarse las aportaciones que ha hecho cada usuario. Con 3 viajes, que equivaldría al recilaje de unos 10 litros de aceite, se concederá un descuento del 5% en el recibo de basuras a todos los alcoverenses que colaboren.

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Katalonia and CATOR overpass extensively the environmental objectives stablished for recycling and regeneration - April 2008

En el primer año de vigencia de la nueva normativa sobre reciclado de aceites minerales, la CCAA de Catalunya y CATOR superan ampliamente los objetivos ecológicos de reciclaje y regeneración establecidos por el RD 679/2006.

CATOR ha regenerado el 100% de los aceites minerales usados recogidos en la CCAA de Catalunya, mientras el Real Decreto 679/2006 establece que como mínimo en 2007 se debían regenerar el 55% de los aceites recogidos.

El rendimiento del proceso de regeneración ha sido superior a lo establecido por dicho RD, siendo el producto industrial resultante, unas bases regeneradas que cumplen las especificaciones técnicas y las condiciones de seguridad exigidas a los aceites nuevos correspondientes y que están exentas de policlorobifenilo y de policloroterfenilo, avanzándose al objetivo ecológico de calidad establecido en la normativa.

CATOR manifiesta su agradecimiento a todos los talleres de reparación de automóviles, a los Gremios y Asociaciones de talleres, así como a las industrias generadoras de residuo, su colaboración y difusión del conocimiento en la separación selectiva del residuo, evitando mezclas y contaminaciones con otras sustancias extrañas al aceite.

CATOR agradece la confianza de los fabricantes y formuladores de lubricantes en la utilización de base regenerada, tanto las empresas que las han incorporado en cumplimiento del RD como los fabricantes que ya las venían utilizando en sus formulaciones, y en especial a aquellos que han confiado en los productos de CATOR desde sus inicios en 1996.

CATOR también ha regenerado al 100% el aceite recibido de otras CCAA, agradeciendo a los recogedores que nos han entregado el aceite de sus Comunidades, su confianza y colaboración.

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CATOR obtains the certificate OHSAS 18001 and renews the ISOS Certificates 9001 and 14001 - March 2008

 

En Marzo de 2008 hemos superado el seguimiento de las auditorías de renovación de las ISOS 9001 y 14001 realizadas por Applus.

Asimismo hemos obtenido también la certificación inicial OHSAS 18001:2007 referente a  Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo, en Recogida, Analítica, Control, Almacenamiento, Tratamiento y Comercialización mediante un Proceso de Regeneración de Aceites Residuales de Origen Industrial y de Automoción.

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CATOR achieves its treating objective of 36,000 tones used oil durint 2007 - February 2008

 

En el año 2007 y gracias a la aplicación del nuevo Real Decreto 679/2006, CATOR ha conseguido subir su cuota de regeneración en un 10%, pasando de 33.600 a 36.036 toneladas.

Suponemos que este año la implantación será mucho más efectiva y que podremos llegar a regenerar 38.000 toneladas de aceites lubricantes usados.

Desde que CATOR inició su gestión en 1993, ha recogido y regenerado 400.000 toneladas de aceites usados, contribuyendo a la NO EMISIÓN A LA ATMÓSFERA de más de 1.000.000 toneladas de CO2.
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Free Collection for quantities under 400 liters of used oil - January 2008

A partir de Enero de 2008 los productores de aceites usados que llamen al teléfono 93 488 19 19 de CATOR y que dispongan de menos de 400 litros se les facilitará la recogida de forma gratuita, pagando sólo la gestión de los envases contaminados.

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Rapport of Environmental Awareness and Promotion of CATOR during the period 2007 - January 2008

En el año 2007 hemos recibido 161 personas de visita en nuestras instalaciones, procedentes principalmente de Ciclos Formativos de Grado Superior, Universidades, Escuelas y Empresas privadas, no sólo de la provincia de Tarragona, sino tamibén de Huesca y Valencia.

Y como cada año, CATOR ha realizado varias conferencias, entre las que destacamos:

  • “Gestión de aceites usados en un sistema integrado” dentro del “III Congreso Ibérico sobre Residuos Industriales”, Madrid, Mayo 2007
  • "Gestión de los Aceites Usados", módulo anual impartido en la EOI de Sevilla, Junio 2007
  • Jornadas sobre los aceites usados" en el módulo de Medi Ambiente de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Químicas, Diciembre 2007

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CATOR estimates to treat this year 36,000 tones of used oils – September 2007

 

El mercado de los aceites lubricantes usados se ha estancado bastante durante los últimos años, pues la flota de vehículos está casi totalmente renovada y los lubricantes son de mejor calidad y más duraderos, por lo que no se generan tantos aceites usados. Es por ello que la cifra de regeneración sólo puede crecer dentro del marco del nuevo Real Decreto 679/2006, por el que se regula la gestión de los aceites industriales usados.

Esta nueva normativa compromete a las Administraciones Públicas a promover la compra y el uso de aceites regenerados y obligando a la regeneración versus la cogeneración. Gracias a ello, este año preveemos que la regeneración de aceites lubricantes usados crecerá de 33.600 toneladas del año 2006 a 36.000 toneladas en 2007.

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INFORMATIVE NOTE about the incident in CATOR's refining plant 26th August 2007

Ayer, domingo 26 de agosto, a las 15.05 horas se produjo en la sala de calderas una fuga de aceite térmico de la planta de regeneración de aceites usados que CATOR tiene instalada en Alcover, provincia Tarragona.

Como que el circuito está presurizado con gas nitrógeno, el aceite, caliente, salió pulverizado en forma de una pequeña niebla blanca en el entorno de la instalación.

Mientras un operario avisaba a los bomberos, un segundo cerraba las válvulas de aislamiento del circuito.

Una vez llegaron los bomberos se procedió a localizar el origen exacto de la fuga, que se encontró en una junta de una válvula de aislamiento de la bomba de recirculación del aceite térmico. Precisamente este mes de agosto se ha procedido a la substitución programada de todas las juntas del circuito de aceite térmico.

Mientras el circuito se iba despresurizando, se procedió a inundar la sala con espumógeno para minimizar los efectos de un posible incendio.

A las cinco de la tarde se produjo una pequeña deflagración que inmediatamente se redujo y que únicamente afectó a parte del techo de la sala de calderas. Se procedió, por seguridad, a refrigerar con agua los equipos de la zona y hacia las siete se dio por finalizado el incidente.

Por la presencia de la niebla blanca que podría afectar a la carretera C-14, se activó el Plaseqta en el primer nivel, que hacia las seis de la tarde fue desactivado.

Una vez revisada toda la planta se reinició la actividad a los tres días sin incidencias.

Agradecemos la intervención de los diferentes cuerpos de bomberos que, con gran celeridad, acudieron e impidieron que la afectación fuese mayor, del personal presente y del que acudió, así como la presencia de las autoridades municipales, autonómicas y cuerpos de seguridad que se presentaron ofreciendo su colaboración.

August, 27 th 2007

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CATOR renews the collaboration with APQUA

The APQUA Project began 2002 with the development of a Educational Visit Program (PVE) to the industries of Tarragona. The addressees of those visits are students of the Primary and Secondary level (from 11 to 16 years old). 

CATOR, continuing with its Environmental Raising of Awareness, has signed one year more (2007/2008) the Collaboration Agreement with the University Rovira i Virgili for the APQUA Project.

Visit of the students of the 

IES Jaume Huguet, 4th ESO, Valls (16/01/07)

"To prevent is better than..."

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Annual Emergency Plan - July 2007

Continuing with our policy of prevention and labor security, the last 12.July took again place a simulacrum of CATOR's Annual Emergency Plan.

The exercise was about to extinguish again a simulated fire in our Module II of the distillation unit. Everyone collaborated: CATOR’s staff, external staff, CENCAT, Fire department of the Northern Estate,… We thank everyone!

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CATOR renews the ISOS Certificates 9001 and 14001 - April 2007

In April 2007 CATOR has actualized the certifications for Quality ISO 9001:2000 and Environment ISO 14001:1996 in Collection, Analysis, Control, Storage, Treatment and Selling using a regeneration process of industrial and automotive waste oils, awarded by the LGAI Applus Certification centre.

This means an improvement of our enterprise and the Environment

ISO 9001:2000

ISO 14001:1996

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Cooperation Agreement with Solentiname (Nicaragua) - September 2005

Mediterrània CIE, within his activities in the International Cooperation, takes through different projects to improve life quality in non favored nations. This time has began together with the Association for the Development of Solentiname (Asociación para el Desarrollo de Solentiname, APDS), Nicaragua, different projects to strength this community and continuing with his right development. CATOR cooperates with this project.
Solentiname is an archipelago in the south of the greatest lake of Mesoamerica, in Nicaragua. Those islands compose an important place with an high natural value, declared as National Natural Monument and it’s a part of the project SI-A-PAZ for the protection of tropical forests.

Because of its geographical conditions, there is no electricity supply, that’s why at the end of the year 2004 it was decided to cooperate through APDS for the “Rehabilitations and electrification with solar energy of the communal Center in the archipelago of Solentiname, Nicaragua”. This project supplies since July 2005 the Communal Center with electricity. There was also a training for Solar Energy Installations and Maintenance.

On the 13. September 2005 we cooperate again in the second phase of the project “Rehabilitation of the Communal Center /Tourists Reception (Phase II) and setting of the Artesanal and Services Cooperative of the Archipelago of Solentiname (Nicaragua)”.

By the way, CATOR has cooperated in the support to the Felipe Peña School, the most important of the Archipelago of Solentiname, who live more than 170 families. Nowadays, there are 92 students with only 2 teachers.

 
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The village of Alcover has Biodiesel. June 2005

Since June 16th, you can buy Biodiesel in the petrol station in Alcover, placed on kilometer point 19,3 of the road C-14, just in front of CATOR.

The biodiesel is an renewable and biodegradable fuel obtained from vegetable oils, raw or recycled, and with similar characteristics than petrochemical diesel. It can be used in diesel engines, replacing traditional diesel or mixing them together, without making any change in the motor.

The Biodiesel has important energetic and environmental advantages:

  • reduces the dependency of petroleum

  • has significantly fewer emissions than petroleum-based diesel

  • a waste is being transformed into a resource

  • it is biodegradable and non-toxic

  • it has a lot of warranties!

You’ll find more information about Biodiesel in the site of the Catalan Biodiesel Association www.acbiodiesel.net

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1st Sustainability Prices from the Environmental Department of the City of Tarragona. Mai 2005

On May, 20th, in the Restaurant La Boella, the Environmental Department of the City of Tarragona rewarded different organizations and enterprises of the zone that works for sustainability. One of this enterprises is CATOR.

Rewarded organizations:

  • Enterprise integrated in a quarter – Cementos Esfera

  • Service Enterprise – RACC

  • Nutritional Enterprise – Danone

  • Sportive Enterprise – SES (Societat Exploracions Submarines)

  • Private Enterprise – Carrefour Tarragona

  • Environmental Project – Mediterrània

  • Communication Network - Més TV

  • Association – AEQT

  • Chemical Industry – CATOR

  • Education – La Salle School, Torreforta

  • Health – Creu Roja

  • Culture – Reial Societat Arqueològica de Tarragona

Photo published in Diari de Tarragona el 21/05/05

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XIII Meeting of the Environment and Cooperation. April 2005

The annual meeting changed this year of emplacement and it took place in the Plaça Corsini of Tarragona, during April 9th and 10th, where we were very good. Organized by Mediterrània– CIE, it becomes again a success of citizen collaboration, thanks to all the non-governmental associations that makes a lot of activities, informing and making enjoy old and young.

In the scientist area of the meeting, it took place the course “Rivers, a damaged resource”, with the participation of professionals of different origins and with a high level.

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Ecomed-Pollutec 2005. March 2005

We’ve participated this year in the Ecomed-Pollutec (March, 8th to 11th in Barcelona, E) with a stand to present and promote the GBI Serveis group and the new investments.

In the same event, CATOR participated with a little stand in the "Buy Recycled-Island", organized by the Catalan Waste Agency to promote de enterprises who contribute to the environment with recycled products.

Stand of GBI Serveis Stand of CATOR
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G.E.I.R. Annual Meeting, Brussels. February 2005

On February 17th, the members of the European Re-refining Industry Association (GEIR - Groupement Européen de l'Industrie de la Régénération) met in Brussels (Belgium) for the Annual Meeting and discussed about the actual situation in the World of the re-refining of used oils. Of course, CATOR was there!

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Rapport of Environmental Awareness and Promotion of CATOR during the period 2004. January 2004

Although 2002 and 2003 the visits to CATOR get reduced, during 2004, there were again more persons who showed interest in visit our facility, principally the schools, being representative the secondary schools.

Year

Persons

Visits a CATOR

WEB entries

2000

228

24

5.235

2001

500

27

20.284

2002

428

40

18.521*

2003

362

27

38.874

2004

452

15

33.589

 *4 months without dates 

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CATOR's Management Rapport 2004. January 2005

During all those years of CATOR’s management, we’ve collected and regenerated more than 230,000 tones of used oil, contributing this way to the no-emission of over 700,000 tons CO2 to atmosphere and with the material improvement fulfilling the VI Program of Environmental Action of the European Commission of January, 24th 2001.

We’ve increased our logistic efficiency: 

2003 we treated round 29,626 tons and

2004 we arrived to collect and treat 31,326 tons of used oils.

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Annual Emergency Plan. December 2004

Continuing with our policy of prevention and labor security, the last 15th December took again place a simulacrum of CATOR's Annual Emergency Plan.

The exercise was about to extinguish a simulated fire in our Module II of the distillation unit. Everyone collaborated: CATOR’s staff, external staff, CENCAT, Fire department of the Northern Estate,… We thank everyone!

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CATOR invests more than 2 millions Euros at Environmental Improvements. October 2004

El Grupo GBI Serveis entró en el accionariado de CATOR con el claro compromiso de mejoras medioambientales. Este compromiso se ha materializado en un proyecto de inversiones a lo largo del año 2004 estudiado conjuntamente con la Agencia de Residuos de Catalunya y el Ayuntamiento de Alcover, con el asesoramiento de la Universidad Rovira i Virgili. Estas mejoras se han presentado en público el 9 de octubre con la inauguración oficial por parte del Conseller de Medi i Habitatge de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Salvador Milà, y la asistencia de más de 120 personas.

Todo este paquete de inversiones tiene por objetivo prioritario mejorar los aspectos medioambientales de la gestión integral del tratamiento de los aceites lubricantes usados, tanto por lo que respecta al orden interno como a la repercusión en su entorno. Estas inversiones se han materializado en los siguientes aspectos concretos: 

· Nueva estación depuradora de aguas residuales 

· Torre de refrigeración 

· Carga de productos 

· Muro Verde: plantación de una pantalla verde perenne con más de 100 árboles 

· Sistema de regulación y control 

· Optimización de los venteos de tanques 

· Sistema de lavado de gases 

· Ampliación de la subestación eléctrica 

· Nueva báscula 

· Construcción de nuevos vestuarios y nuevas oficinas de recepción 

· Creación de nuevos viales de circulación interna 

· Mejoras de impacto visual: pintura de todos los tanques de almacenamiento, pipe-line, enjardinado, ... 

Todas estas inversiones están incluidas en el programa de mejoras continuadas e incorporan las mejores técnicas disponibles (MTD), pero de las que queremos destacar el tratamiento de aguas.

La nueva Planta Depuradora de Aguas Residuales Industriales (PTARI) ha representado una fuerte inversión de aprox. un millón y medio de Euros. En esta nueva instalación, con tecnología alemana LOFT y WHERLE, se combinan los sistemas de DAF, de evaporación, de reactor biológico y de ultrafiltración. Esto genera una calidad del agua depurada que permite su uso integral en la refrigeración delos módulos de proceso sin repercusiones ambientales. Si añadimos la calidad del agua a la puesta en marcha de la nueva torre de refrigeración, conseguimos un funcionamiento óptimo en el ciclo cerrado de las aguas

Las demás inversiones nos permiten optimizar aspectos básicos de la política de CATOR como mejoras de las condiciones laborales, de los aspectos técnicos y de reducción de impacto visual para integrar nuestras instalaciones en su entorno, Todas las actuaciones se han llevado a cabo con el objetivo de conseguir una mejor más eficiente gestión sostenible de los aceites mineralesi usados.
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Presentation of SIRCAT. September 2004

The recent founded enterprise specialized in the integral management of service stations and automobile wastes, make the public presentation of its services in the Racing Lap Catalunya, Montmeló.  

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XII Meeting of the Environment and Cooperation. April 2004

Mediterrània· Centre d'Iniciatives Ecològiques organized in the Rambla Nova of Tarragona the annual Meeting of the Environment and Cooperation, from the 2nd to the 4th April. In our stand we sorted a game of CATOR and during 3 days we handed out round 200 units with a great participation in the draw.

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Rapport of Environmental Awareness and Promotion of CATOR during the period 2003. January 2004

The year 2003 got the tendency of 2002 about the number of visits to our facility, but during the year 2004 the visits ascended again. Otherwise, the entries in our website have raised considerably in the last year.

Year

Persons

Visits a CATOR

WEB entries

2000

228

24

5.235

2001

500

27

20.284

2002

428

40

18.521*

2003

362

27

38.874

 *4 months without dates 

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Changes in CATOR's Shareholding. December 2003

After more than 10 years, in October 2003, CATOR changed his shareholding from the German holding RWE Umwelt Services España, SA (RUSE) to the Catalan holding GBI SERVEIS, with a Lloret de Mar (Gironès, Spain), who has a heavy quality and environmental improvement commitment. 

The GBI Serveis Group is a concern of different enterprises active in the environmental sector prepared to give our clients in every moment an excellent and completely personalized service to very competitive prices, always protecting the Environment.

The main activities of our Concern are the waste management collection, construction and management of dumping sites, street and beaches maintenance, public lightening, construction and management of playgrounds, composting plants, waste collection units,… and now also the collection and treatment of waste oils.

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CATOR's game. November 2003

The "Juego de CATOR" is a didactic game we created for the 10. Anniversary of the beginning of waste oil collection in Catalonia. 

El objetivo del juego pretende mejorar de forma lúdica el conocimiento de la gestión de los aceites lubricantes usados, destacando aspectos como los puntos generadores de aceites usados, los peligros que conlleva una mala gestión de este residuo, el mecanismo de recogida, aspectos técnicos del proceso de regeneración y usos y ventajas ambientales del aceite base regenerado. Hemos editado el juego tanto en catalán como en castellano.

CARACTERÍSTICAS DEL JUEGO

Destinatarios - a partir de 10 años. Mínimo 4 jugadores. Posibilidad de jugar en equipo y en familia.

Objetivos del juego - reproducir la gestión del aceite usado teniendo presente las líneas de contenidos en los que se basa el juego. El objetivo final del juego es recoger el aceite usado y convertirlo en aceite base regenerado apto para su comercialización.

This game has been designed and realised by HÈLIX exclusive for CATOR

Dinámica básica del juego – Los jugadores deben recoger el aceite lubricante usado de diferentes puntos de generación situados a lo largo del territorio. Para ello las fichas del juego son camiones de recogida. Este aceite antes de llegar a las instalaciones de CATOR debe ser transferido a un camión cisterna de más capacidad, reproduciendo en parte del proceso que  se realiza en realidad. Los jugadores no conseguirán su objetivo hasta que el aceite recogida no haya llegado a las instalaciones de CATOR y, por lo tanto, sea regenerado en aceite base. A lo largo de su recorrido por el territorio, los jugadores deben responder a preguntas y salvar diversas incidencias para conseguir su objetivo, por lo que no sólo deben mover su propio camión de recogida sino que cada jugador tiene la opción de mover el camión cisterna de transferencia.
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Rally Catalunya · Costa Brava 2003. Octubre 2003

De nuevo y con motivo del pasado Rally de Catalunya - Costa Brava (22 a 26 de octubre de 2003), CATOR colaboró con el RACC con la instalación en la asistencia de Vic de un depósito de recogida selectiva de los aceites usados de los motores de los vehículos de los equipos participantes. Cabe resaltar que este año se ha recogido un 800% más que en la edición anterior.  

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10 years contributing to the Sustainable Development in Catalonia. September 2003

On the 9th September was the 10. Anniversary of the mineral waste oil collection in Catalonia (Spain).   

In those ten years we have collected more than 220 millions of liters of lubricant waste oil, and regenerated them, protecting this way our environment. During the coming year we want to collect and treat more than 28.000.000 kg of waste oils in Catalonia. .

220 millions of liters collected in 10 years: 

9th Sept. 1993 up to 9th Sept. 2003

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Support of the Kid's Day in the "Licenciado Oscar Castro Tejada" School of Honduras. September 2003

La Asamblea de las Naciones Unidas aprobó la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño el 20 de Noviembre de 1959. El objetivo de esta reunión fue la de reafirmar los derechos universales del niño y sugerir a los gobiernos que celebrasen el "Día del Niño" en la fecha y de la manera que cada uno de ellos estimase más conveniente.

Muchos países de Sudamérica y de América Central se han adherido a esta declaración y actualmente se adhirieron a esta declaración y actualmente celebran el "Día del Niño", cada uno de ellos en días diferentes, por ejemplo, el 13 de agosto en Chile o el segundo fin de semana de agosto en Argentina, en abril en Perú o septiembre en Honduras. Con estas fiestas se pretende que tanto los adultos como los propios niños tomen conciencia de los derechos de los niños, de los abusos a los que a veces son sometidos y de las iniciativas que existen para ofrecer a todos los niños del mundo una vida digna.

Es en países subdesarrollados como Honduras donde la celebración de esta fecha toma gran relevancia ya que las condiciones de subdesarrollo son las que favorecen el abuso de los niños. Es por ello que Mediterrània y CATOR han creído en la importancia de la celebración de esta festividad y, sobre todo, en una colonia de tan alta pobreza como la Colonia Peña Baja y han colaborado para que se lleve a cabo cada año. Hubo piñatas, caramelos, pasteles y refrescos para todos los alumnos de la Escuela Licenciado Oscar Castro Tejada.... y muchas muchas sonrisas!!!

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Physical improvement of the “Licenciado Oscar Castro Tejada” school of Honduras. March 2003

Together with Mediterrània , CATOR is giving support to the "Licenciado Oscar Castro Tejada" school in Colonia Peña por Bajo, one of the poorest zones of the metropolitan area of Comayagüela - Tegucigalpa. This educational center has round 550 students and 14 teachers.

This school does not receive any economical help of the government, because this was grounded by the goodwill of the teachers and the only help that comes in are the voluntary contributions of the parents of the students. Those contributions are not very important because of the economically situation of the families and only help to pay some costs as the charwoman and the security guard of the school, to buy cleaning material, … Because of the low income, the school cannot buy basic material as desks for the students. Nowadays the school has 110 desks for 550 students.
The project of Mediterrània will not only allow to finance this lack of material, it will allow the school to solve some physical essential needs that cut down the normal development of the school: the roof is in a lamentable condition and it exists the possibility to fall in, the paint of the walls is damaged and the playground is of the same material as the ground, with the following risk of infection of the children.
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AERAMU re-refined last year 61,000 tones of waste oil: 37% more than 2001. February 2003

The companies integrated in AERAMU (Spanish Association of Regeneration Companies of Mineral Waste Oil) have regenerated during the last year 61,000 tones of mineral waste oil. This quantity regenerated during 2002 means an historical record with an increment of 32% in front of 2001.

AERAMU is integrated by all the Spanish waste oil re-refiners: CATOR in Catalonia, ECOLUBE at Madrid and SANTOIL at Murcia. All three companies have the regeneration capacity of 84,000 tones/year. Although the great increase in 2002, the plants regenerated only 75% of their maximum capacity, because nowadays the waste oils are majority used as a fuel.
The regeneration consists in obtaining base oil from waste oil for the formulation of new lubricants. This is a process pronounced as priority by the ECC, as it means an environmental management alternative – sustainable development- for this product, one of the most hazardous wastes that we can find in more quantity.
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The Catalan fishers collaborate for the sustainable development sampling selectively the waste oil of their boats for its re-refining. February 2003

Harbours of the Catalan Government and different Fishers’ Guilds came to an agreement to collect the waste oils generated by the motors of their boats and put them into a pre-fabricated module installed in everyone of the harbours of Catalonia.

This pre-fabricated module includes an aspiration pump for the collection of the waste oil that fishers brings in drums and cans, a container for the selective collection of dirty dusters and oil filters. Periodically, CATOR will collect the used oil that the fishers have produced and transport to the re-refining plant in Alcover, Tarragona. The Fishers’ Guilds will be responsible for the correct management of the wastes linked with the used oils.

The selective collection module

Nowadays, those modules are on duty in the following harbours of Catalonia: L'Escala, Roses, Palamós, Blanes, Arenys de Mar, Mataró, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Cambrils, l'Ametlla de Mar and Sant Carles de la Rápita. This action is integrated in the Clean Harbours 2000-2004, a project of interregional collaboration, of European range with also the objective of the promotion of the sustainable development together with the fishers.
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Report of Environmental Awareness and Promotion of CATOR during the period 2002. January 2003

Although the quantity of persons that visit CATOR during 2002 has reduced round 19% beside 2001, the number of visits has been increased round 70%. Analyzing those numbers, we understand that the interest in visiting our facility has increased, although in little and specialized groups.

In the following table you can find the most important numbers of the last years.

Year

Persons

Visits

Age average

Youngest person

Oldest person

Visit to our Website

2000 228 24 29,04 12 69 5.235
2001 500 27 16,70 10 67 20.284
2002 428 40 16,32 12 65 18.521 *Without calculating the first 4 months
 
Following their program of environmental awareness and training for Sustainable Development in the reuse of recycled products, at the end of the visit to our plant, we ask the people to fill a short anonymous query about environmental questions. If you want to consult the global results of those queries you can do it in the document "Query 2000-2002"
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Fire and Fire Extinguisher, 6th November, 2002

CATOR, following his program of prevention and labor security, has organized in his facility of Alcover a course of  “Fire and Fire Extinguisher”, done by professionals of  PARSI.

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Meeting Point Remei, October 12th - 13th, 2002

Each year the village of Alcover celebrates the Meeting Point of Remei and so indicates the beginning of the village celebrations. In this event CATOR has installed a stand to inform and let know our activities.
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G.E.I.R. General Statutory Meeting, Barcelona, September 20th 2002

The European Re-refining Industry Association(GEIR – Groupement Européen de l’Industrie de la Régénération), with office in Brussels (Belgium), organized last September 20th in Barcelona a meeting to concrete the strategies to follow throughout the European Union in ensuring the increasing collection of waste oils and re-refining these back to valuable, high quality lubricant base oils. GEIR is committed to the principle that priority must be given to re-refining to base oils and supports the termination of all tax derogations on waste oils burnt as fuel.

It's thought that in Spain each year are 230,00 tones of used oil generated, from which 180,000 tones are burned. The Spanish companies in GEIR -CATOR and ECOLUBE-, re-refined the year 2001 round 50,000 tones of used oils, so they decrease de emission of 150,000 tones of CO2 to the atmosphere.  

The company SANTOIL from Murcia (Spain) joined the Association in this meeting.

The day before, members of GEIR visited the facility of CATOR at Alcover (Tarragona, Spain).

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X Meeting of the Environment and Co-operation, 12th - 14th April 2002

CATOR has participated once again in the Meeting of the Environment and Co-operation that has been celebrated for 10 years by Mediterrània · Centre d'Iniciatives Ecològiques in the Rambla Nova de Tarragona the 12th - 14th April 2002.

With the motive of the 10th Anniversary of this Meeting, the exhibitors, under the initiative of the organizers for this event, gave visitors a special souvenir: a collection of serviette holders made of recycled plastic in the form of different animals and colors. CATOR handed out 3.000 blue serviette holders in the shape of a seal and a penguin. With this initiative, the aim was not only to help promote the activities of the collaborating organizations but also the values of protection and cooperation with our environment, according to the policy established by our company.

 



CATOR was also interviewed by Tarragona Ràdio, during which we also promoted our company's membership of the Global Compact for Human Rights.
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CATOR joins the Global Compact for Human Rights, 9th April 2002

Our company supports the nine principles of the Global Compact concerning human rights, labour and environmental protection, expressing our firm intention to support and promote these principles within our field of competence.

The General Secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, presided a solemn act in Madrid the 9th of April 2002 with the aim of formally presenting the Global Compact in Spain. This act was organized by the Fundació Rafael del Pino and l'Associació Cultural pro Nacions Unides.

The nine principles of the Global Compact
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Report of Environmental Awareness and Promotion for CATOR during the period 2001

In relation to CEFMA's first year, in 2001 there has been an increase in visits to the plant in Alcover of 31%, representing a total of around 500 people, with an average age of 26 (the youngest was 10 and the oldest 67), distributed in the following way:

Superior grade studies 53
Companies 42
Public organization 9
Media 6
Schools 351
Universities 39

as well as those who visited the plant out of personal interest.

In the same way, the visits made to our web have increased considerably: throughout 2001 the web received 20.000 hits, representing an increase of almost 400% compared to last year.

Origin %
El Tarragonès 48,6%
L'Alt Camp 21,6%
El Garraf 10,6%
El Barcelonès 5,0%
El Bages 4,8%
Germany 2,9%
L'Anoia 2,5%
El Baix Llobregat 1,0%
Huelva 0,8%
Polinesia 0,4%
Portugal 0,4%
El Vallès Occidental 0,4%
Maresme 0,2%
Panama 0,2%
València 0,2%
Canada 0,2%
Astúries 0,2%
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Rally Catalunya - Costa Brava, 21st - 24th March 2002

For the recent Rally de Catalunya - Costa Brava, CATOR worked with RACC on the installation of two recycling points for used oil in Port Aventura and Manlleu for the used oil from the vehicles of the participating teams.
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Report of Environmental Awareness and Promotion for CATOR during the period 2000 (February 2001)

In the year 2000 CATOR implemented the CEFMA and in this way we have promoted our system of visits to the plant for re-refining used lubricating oils.

We have received approximately 230 visits to our plant from colleges, associations, companies, mass media,...; with an average age of 29 years: the youngest were 12 years old and the oldest was 69. The majority of our visitors were from the Tarragonès region and Anoia, although we also received visits to the plant from Great Britain and Australia.

Since we redesigned our web we have received all kinds of visits: we started the year with only an average of 120 visits in the first trimester, and ended up with an average of 962 in the final trimester. Within the total number of 6080 visits in the year 2000, we would like to note the fact that we have also had visitors from Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, South Africa...

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CATOR obtains the ISO 14001 (June 2000)

Continuing to introduce a system of Quality and Environmental Management, CATOR's Environmental Management System has been certified according to ISO 14001:96 in Collection, Analysis, Control, Storage and Treatment by a Recycling Process of waste oil from the motor and industrial sectors.
In this way we would like to demonstrate our dedication to correct environmental management, identification and evaluation of environmental aspects, and the establishment of environmental management programs with the aim of controlling important environmental aspects.
This process will be completed when the treatment plant in Alcover (Alt Camp) takes up the Eco-management and Eco-inspection community system described in the European Regulations 1836/93 (EMAS).

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A special mention for CATOR in the Mediterrània 2000 Awards (June 2000)

The ecologist association Mediterrània - Centre d'Iniciatives Ecològiques held the sixth edition of the Ones Mediterrània Awards, created in order to give recognition to people, organizations, groups, companies or institutions who promote environmental awareness or work to protect the environment. The winner of the Ones Mediterrània 2000 Awards was announced on Friday June 2nd at Fortí de la Reina in Tarragona.
Twenty-six projects were presented as candidates, and the award was given to the Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores para el Estudio y la Conservación de la Biodiversidad (Young Researchers Association for the Study and Conservation of Biodiversity) from Navatejera (León) with their study of invasive species in the Iberian Peninsula.
During the ceremony, within the area of environmental awareness, application of clean technologies, the defense of natural patrimony and co-operation and the environment, CATOR received a special mention for their project for an Environmental Education and Training Centre in their plant in Alcover, l'Alt Camp.
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Open day for press conference (17/05/2000)

On Wednesday 17th May companies from the area Camp de Tarragona, members of the organization ACITRE (Catalan Association for Special Waste Treatment Plants), organized an open day press conference about the activities of CATOR, Valls Química and TRI.
The aim of the visit was to explain the treatment of special waste by companies who belong to ACITRE. CATOR, according to its policy of public information and promotion of sustainable development, took part in the conference, emphasizing the proper management of used lubricants and their increased use.
The media present were: El Punt, El Vallenc, El Diari de Tarragona, La Vanguardia, Catalunya Ràdio, Cadena SER, RNE, TVE y TV3.
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III Earth Week - 25-30 April 2000

Following their program of environmental awareness and training for Sustainable Development in the reuse of recycled products, CATOR has co-operated with the set-up of a stand in the III Earth Week, organized by Abrera Town Hall in the Paseo de la Estación. Industries, artists, recycling craftsmen and associations were all represented in this event.
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VIII Meeting of the Environment and Co-operation, 14-16 April 2000, Rambla Nova de Tarragona

CATOR, following their program of environmental awareness and training for Sustainable Development in the reuse of recycled products, co-operated with the set-up of a stand in the VIII Meeting of the Environment and Co-operation, organized by the association Mediterrània - Centre d'Iniciatives Ecològiques, in the Rambla Nova de Tarragona, from 14-16 April 2000.

In this Meeting point, CATOR presented the first ecological lubricant to be awarded all European and American certificates and homologations (ACEA'98 y API), being the only lubricant to have also obtained the Certificado de Calidad Ambiental (Environmental Quality Certificate). This lubricant has been obtained from re-refined bases produced in CATOR, called REGENOIL®.
The display was inaugurated by the Honourable Sr. Felip Puig i Godes (Environmental Counsellor for the Generalitat de Catalunya), the most illustrious Sr. Joan Miquel Nadal (Mayor of Tarragona) and Sr. Àngel Juárez (President of Mediterrània). The Environmental Department Delegate of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the President of the Port of Tarragona, the Rector of the URV, the City Hall Environmental Alderman , and other authorities were also present.
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CATOR is awarded the ISO 9002 certificate (March 2000)

In order to assure the quality of our products and the environmental management of our company, CATOR has set up an Integral Management System that has obtained the ISO 9002:94 certificate in Collection, Analysis, Control, Storage and Treatment via a process of recycling residual oils of industrial and motor industry origin, awarded by the Centro de Certificación LGAI and is in the process of certification in agreement with ISO 14001:96 and EMAS for Environmental Management Systems.

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The Generalitat de Catalunya presents an ecological motor oil manufactured from used oils

Teletipo Europapress (17/05/1999)

BARCELONA, 17 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Environmental Council of the Generalitat de Catalunya has launched the first ecological motor oil in the European market, Ecoroil, with the aim of promoting the use of ecological products, according to Council sources.

Ecoroil is the first ecological motor oil made from re-refined bases from used oils by the Servei Públic de Tractament i Regeneració d'Olis Usats de Catalunya (CATOR). This project closes the management cycle of this waste product; it avoids pollution; it demonstrates the possibility of recovering used oil in order to regenerate it and give it a new use, and finally it offers the market a new product manufactured according to sustainable development criteria.

This project, that arose out of the co-operation between CATOR and two companies from the motor oil sector, has been awarded the Guarantee of Environmental Quality of the Generalitat, as well as the highest quality homologations from the European Union and the United States. Catalunya generates around 40.000 tons of used oil per year, and among the future ambitions is to use 40% of the used oil generated and that today has other destinations, and also to promote the Ecoroil project to other countries.

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