The pellet manufacturer Ecowarm, the first SME to certify the sustainability of biomass with SURE

Ecowarm , a company in Spain and in Eur OPA dedicated to the manufacture of wooden pellets since 1986, has satisfactorily concluded the audit of substantial resources Verification Scheme (south) at the beginning of December 2021. In this way, it joins the list of 50 eur Opeas companies that have already done so, of which 10 belong to the Spanish groups Ence and Ens.

The Ecowarm factory has produced nearly 16,000 tons of pellets this year under the Vagalume brand and also wood briquettes under the Ardeben name. In addition, it is a certified producer and distributor of ENplus® pellets with numbers ES014 and ES 325 respectively; has implemented a digital information processing system to trace the carbon footprint of the entire process to the final consumer and has passed PEFC and FSC audits.

The company, a signatory of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , remains faithful to its Code of Ethics and Social Responsibility Plan and supplies the factory with by-products and waste from the first processing industry located within a 65-mile radius. km.

The REDII criteria seek to guarantee the sustainability of biomass, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency when used to generate energy.

The Southern System, of which Avebiom is a National Support Agency, has been conceived to certify any operator of the Bioenergy sector in EurOPA: agricultural and forestry biomass producers, biofuel producers from by -products and waste, pellet manufacturers, logistics operators, biofuel marketers or biomass and biomass centrals.