Reference address: Via Nazionale 3, 37046 Minerbe (VR)

Website: www.zanardifonderie.com

Institution profile

Zanardi Fonderie S.p.A. is a family business that produces spheroidal ductile iron castings and austempered ductile iron castings (ADI) with a green moulding process. Production is located in Minerbe (Verona, Italy), with about 220 employees. The production capacity is mostly oriented on medium size batches and the full annual capacity is about 22,000 tons, of which 10,000 in ADI, with a unit weight between 0,5 and 120 kg. In Zanardi Fonderie production and organization meets international quality standards: OHSAS 18001 certification guarantee internal security, while the EMAS registration and ISO 14001 certification attest to external environment. The quality offered to the customer is certified by ISO standard 9001: 2000, which includes co-design.

Zanardi Fonderie believes that real sustainability comes from an internal process focused on ongoing environmental, economic, social and institutional improvement. All levels and entities must join this action and achieve together clear objectives.

Focusing on energy efficiency, energy uses are in accordance with ISO 50001, “rules for the application of energy” and are made from the consumption of Electricity, Natural Gas or Oil. The entities that produce consumption in the counters engines are mainly for electricity, burners, boilers for natural gas and transportation for diesel.