Metallurgical companies, driven by the need to meet market demands and the quickly changing environment, carry out actions that enable them to reduce their negative environmental impact. The environmental management systems increasingly become an integral part of a company management. The systems introduced by metallurgical companies are based not only on the ISO14001 standard principles but al...

The metal finishing industry is water intensive. Surveys of South African metal finishing companies indicate that water consumption is as high as 400 L/m of metal surface treated, whilst best available practice can achieve less than 10 L/m. The industry uses hazardous chemicals such as chrome VI, cadmium, nickel and cyanide. If consumption of these chemicals can be optimized, quantities of heav...

Abstract: The implementation of environmental management practices in industrial companies has grown exponentially in recent years. In Denmark, more than 700 companies have been awarded an ISO 14001 certificate or are EMAS registered. It is often stressed that these companies, compared with the average company, are proactive and work more intensively with cleaner production and consider their p...

Inherent Safety is generally recognised as an important concept in the design of chemical plants. It is, however, often regarded as the sole province of engineers. Inspired by the successful development in the last decade from cleaner technology towards cleaner production, we explored in this research the feasibility of what we call Inherently Safer Production. Four pilot cases were carried out...