Plasta ltd. (South-East Slovenia Region)

Company’s production is directed in manufacturing of polyethylene foils and different sized bags. The production is dedicated to the costumer’s needs, technical specifications and other costumer’s wishes.
They don’t consider itself as an important eco-innovative company, rather as company that is trying to implement eco-innovative products in order to save material’s costs, to reduce energy loses and after all to reduce pollution impact on the environment.

They see environmental standards as a very positive thing. They are having standard ISO14001 for almost 10 years and with this standard company have drawn some important directions on the eco field; ISO14001 standard is set to lead companies through the improvement process in order to set more ecological friendly production.

Their most important eco-innovative product is the system that uses redundant heat for warming business buildings. Production of folio needs a lot of water for cooling down the machines. After the cooling this water is very hot and till now all this water was wasted. With this new system hot water is directed into the heating system and great savings are consequence of this action. Saving can be seen on the oil (they were managed to save up to 50% of the oil needed for one season), less water is needed for cooling because the water is reused once it has been cooled down; all this has a great positive impact on the environment. Looking overall savings are also resulting at lower costs. Organization is also active on waste separating. This separation is quite précised as they separate every type of waste: paper, metal, plastic. At plastic materials the separation is even more précised; a different plastic goes in different containers. Some of these plastics are being recycled in company’s own recycling machine; they save much material that way. Plasta ltd. has also received the license for foil that is environmental friendly; this folio degrades on CO2, water and harmless dust. They think this is the base for the future, because more and more that kind of folios will have to be developed in order to save the nature.

The implementation of environmental standards had a great impact on the organization. Since the implementation there is a special man dedicated to ecological field and soon every employee in the company started to separate wastes. They are trying to act eco-innovative because they are realizing that this will be important issue in the future. Till now they had to fulfil standard’s criteria but it is also their free will and wish to act eco-innovative. In the future, as being such ecologically aware company, they are predicting more positive effect.

Budget for environmental matters is not specially related but at the beginning of the year, when the financial plan is being prepared, they dedicate up to 5% in the overall budget for this matter. print