{"id":1892,"date":"2025-05-14T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistema-calce.local\/sostenibilita\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:41:57","slug":"sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sistemacalce.fassabortolo.it\/en\/sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lime:
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Lime is life.<\/strong>\u00a0For Fassa Bortolo, the production of lime still represents a major investment project, enabling the Company to serve the entire lime market across its many industrial applications: steelmaking, construction, environmental protection, agriculture, and more.<\/p>

To ensure excellence in every field of application, our lime undergoes the most rigorous and continuous quality controls<\/strong> \u2013 from the careful selection of the purest portion of the raw material to constant monitoring throughout the entire lime production cycle, from quarry to the end customer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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All our kilns operate on biomass fuel<\/strong>. Combined with the firing method developed by our technicians, this allows us to produce both calcitic and dolomitic lime of outstanding purity and reactivity<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The production process:
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In our open-pit quarries, we use only cutting-edge extraction technologies<\/strong>. This ensures respect for the land, the environment, and the health of our workers.<\/p>

We operate and manage our own limestone quarries using techniques designed with environmental remediation<\/strong> and reuse of the quarry site<\/strong> in mind once extraction is complete. Our philosophy is simple: everything should be as it was before. For this reason, we have developed a very strict \u201cquarrying culture\u201d<\/strong>, aimed at total respect for the natural environment that hosts us.<\/p>

Our extraction activities<\/strong> are designed to respect geomorphological, hydrogeological, and landscape balances, minimising the environmental impact on the surrounding area<\/strong>. We also carry out constant measurements of dust and noise generated during operations, ensuring close control over environmental quality<\/strong> both in the workplace and in the surrounding environment. The best environmental remediation of a quarry must be planned at the design stage and carried out alongside extraction itself. Quarry operations should therefore be planned with the final restoration in mind. Conducting environmental remediation simultaneously with extraction makes it possible to closely monitor the actual results of the restoration process and verify compliance with the original design plans.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The design of extraction activities must take into account local needs<\/strong> and ensure the environmental compatibility of the operation in all its phases.<\/p>

Careful design<\/strong> is therefore a prerequisite for mitigating the environmental impact of the operation on the landscape, flora, and fauna, and for ensuring adequate environmental recovery of the site at the end of extraction. It is essential to manage quarrying operations with techniques that are conceived with environmental remediation and reuse of the quarry area at the end of operations already in mind<\/strong>. Remediation plans do not necessarily have to reinstate the original pre-excavation state but may instead aim to enhance the site, making it available for public use (for educational, scientific, naturalistic, or sporting purposes, etc.) or otherwise redeveloping it with a view to sustainable development.<\/p>

Open-pit quarrying is carried out by extracting the mineral in descending horizontal benches, enabling immediate remediation of the excavated slope. In quarries with underground crushing chambers \u2013 which also reduce the need for on-site road haulage \u2013 the level difference between the working and the storage area is overcome via a centrally located ore pass. This ore pass connects to the outside through a tunnel housing the primary crushing plant. Conveyors then carry the material to the surface yard at the tunnel exit, where final processing takes place.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Fassa Bortolo<\/strong> has been selected as one of the examples of good practice in quarry management<\/strong>, since in all its extraction sites it carries out the activities required to achieve the best possible environmental restoration, planned right from the quarry design stage.<\/p>

Legambiente<\/strong> periodically conducts research aimed at highlighting data and the related economic and environmental impacts of quarrying in Italy<\/strong>. The goal is to identify challenges and opportunities from a circular economy perspective.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00abFassa Bortolo has acquired over twenty years of experience in operating limestone quarries, managing several different types of activities. Quarries with underground crushing chambers are the most effective for the rational exploitation of mineral deposits while limiting the impact on the surrounding environment. In this case, the difference in height between the working face and the storage area is overcome via a centrally positioned ore pass in relation to the extraction activity. A tunnel then connects the crushing chamber to the outside, where the limestone is transported via conveyor belts for further crushing, screening, and storage of the finished products. The extracted material is used primarily for the production of pre-mixed renders, lime, and other construction products\u00bb
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Best practice:
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Among the examples of good practices in extraction management<\/strong> and concurrent site restoration<\/strong> mentioned by Legambiente is the former \u201cGessi\u201d quarry in Moncalvo (Asti)<\/strong>, acquired by Fassa Bortolo in 2000.<\/p>

Previously an open-pit site already exploited by other operators, the quarry has undergone major environmental restoration. Today, the area has been completely reshaped, displaying a gentle morphology with a uniform grass cover across the entire surface. In 2016, the planting<\/strong> of trees and shrubs further contributed to the process of vegetation recovery<\/strong>, making the plant life similar to that of the surrounding hills.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The lime cycle<\/strong> is crucial to the many applications of this material, enabling us to convert limestone<\/strong> \u2013 the base resource extracted from quarries \u2013 into a family of diverse products<\/strong> including quicklime<\/strong>, hydrated lime<\/strong>, and the suspension of lime in water (milk of lime<\/strong>).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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