Helping and accompanying companies in this task is the objective of the Seal of the Spanish and Sustainable Plastics Industrya certification mark in which ANAIP he has been working for months and that he presented coinciding with the celebration of World Environment Day.
The Spanish and Sustainable Plastics Industry brand is recognition for companies that work in the plastics sector in our country and that strive to minimize their environmental footprint and improve their social and economic impact on their environment. The mark is granted by ANAIP as the professional and reference association that represents the plastics transformation sector at a national level, but to obtain it it is not necessary to be an associate or a plastics transformer: it is a mark open to companies in the plastics industry. plastics, whether or not they are part of ANAIP.
Establishment of brand criteria
Designed by a workgroup composed ANAIP representatives and by experts from some of its main affiliates, the seal is a certification mark registered at the EU level that was born with a vocation for reliability, rigor and reference; and that supposes a double recognition to the firms that achieve it: for manufacturing in Spain and for meeting sustainability criteria.
The working group has met periodically over the last year to establish the bases of the brand and the economic, social and environmental criteria that companies must meet to achieve this brand, an intense effort that has resulted in a document that works checklist mode that serves to facilitate the path to sustainability for interested companies. In addition to being supported and based on the Regulations for the Use of the brand, which establishes the conditions of use, authorization and management of the brand with the aim of guaranteeing that a company that manufactures plastic products is Spanish and that it meets certain criteria of sustainability (economic, social and environmental axis) established in said Regulation and its annexes.
These criteria are organized in a table divided between the environmental and socioeconomic areas. Each criterion includes a series of parameters whose compliance is demonstrated with the delivery of certain evidence when the trademark application process is launched. An internal committee of the association verifies the evidence, determines the category of the seal that corresponds to it (one star, two stars, three stars or excellence) and will follow up.
“This brand is a large-scale project for which we have dedicated a lot of time and effort −explains Luis Cediel, CEO of ANAIP−, but we are very satisfied because companies are responding with great interest. It is time to work for sustainability and to show society that the plastics industry in our country is a proactive, innovative industry, committed to the circularity of its products and the sustainability of its companies, and that it adds value."
Pilot test
Before the official presentation of the brand and as a general rehearsal, several of the companies that have participated in the working group have carried out the application process to evaluate the protocols and established times. So, danosa, Armando Alvarez Group, plastigaur, molecor, Sphere Spain and torrent group They have already obtained the seal.
The application process is now open and can be started through the brand website: https://anaip.es/PlasticosEspanolesSostenibles/.
