introduction | site restoration | maximizing the natural resource | employee involvement in health & safety | sustaining a rural economy | renaturalization of a river area | innovative regional development | operational best practice | conserving natural heritage | working with a fishery association | reducing employee accidents | lowering emissions | developing geo-tourism | health & safety best practice | local community partnership | facilities for local organisations | protection of species - biotopes | decreasing environmental impacts | cooperation with regional authorities
Sustaining A Rural Economy
THE MORA DE RUBIELOS PROJECT
BACKGROUND
From basic farming in 1960 a dynamic and solidly made business sector, currently called EMIPESA, has been created in Teruel.
The EMIPESA enterprise is a living example of efforts to promote development in a rural area like Teruel where there are well known problems, like depopulation, financial imbalance in relation to border provinces, lack of infrastructure, few main services and endemic deficiency.
EMIPESA, with headquarters in Mora de Rubielos and La Puebla de Valverde, has three sites called: El Ventorrillo, Mas de Salto and Sandra. Limestone is extracted in the first two of them and the altered diabase nature at stone comes from the third one.
The company consists of 90 staff with 125 mobile units and 14 permanent installations for aggregate and mortar mixture production. In addition there is a laboratory where the quality of all the manufactured products is verified. It relies on the collaboration with outsourcing firms made up of EMIPESA's freelancer workers.
ACTION
As a result of investment in the improvement of production processes and services, the company obtained CE MARK for all its aggregate products and managed to get involved in important contracts like aggregate supplies for stretches of the Main Road or ballast production for the High-speed Train line authorized by Railway State Enterprise (RENFE).
From the beginning this company works with the main aims of quality work, nature, environment as well as workers' safety and health. Its management is based on the efficiency of all of the processes, certified in accordance with UNE-EN-ISO 9001-2000 standard.
RESULTS
The business success
of EMIPESA let to the VENDOR 2004 Award for Initiative and Business development
and the National Award for Sustainable Development from National Association
of Aggregate Manufacture Businessmen. The Award was for the contribution
to the economy and added value to society. The prizes stimulated the company
to carry on to its fight to overcome barriers, in order to achieve a better
future with the full female and handicapped integration in all the working
life sectors, being aware of the great contribution and responsibility
towards the local area.
introduction | site restoration | maximizing the natural resource | employee involvement in health & safety | sustaining a rural economy | renaturalization of a river area | innovative regional development | operational best practice | conserving natural heritage | working with a fishery association | reducing employee accidents | lowering emissions | developing geo-tourism | health & safety best practice | local community partnership | facilities for local organisations | protection of species - biotopes | decreasing environmental impacts | cooperation with regional authorities
