In Fuchosa we consider sustainability to be a strategic factor in our managerial activity, linked, in an indissoluble form, to the growth and the profitability of our company.

For many years Fuchosa has supported a proactive environmental protection culture in favour of Sustainable Development, which has been recently reinforced in May 2008 with the Environmental Integrated Authorization to Fuchosa and given by the Basque Government. This commitment supposes an additional impulse in all the performances orientated to promote the constant improvement in relation with the environment.

Every activity linked to environmental matters is oriented towards the development of a set of principles which make up the business performance directives, and can be summarised as follows:

• To comply with applicable legal and environmental requirements
• To encourage Continuous Improvement in relation to the Environment
• To respect our surrounding by minimizing our impact on it
• To establish Active and Preventive Environmental Objectives

In order to follow these principles through, a series of tasks established in the Integral Management System have been defined:

• To inculcate a sense of Responsibility towards the Environment among the workforce.
• To stimulate and evaluate the establishment of Environmental Management Systems in our field, and more specifically amongst our suppliers.
• To periodically review the environmental impact caused by by our processes and activity and to draw up and implement action plans as necessary.
• To inform interested parties of Fuchosa’s situation regarding Environmental Protection.

As part of our willingness to take our work beyond the bounds of the strictly necessary, our compromise with the Environment and our surroundings may be clearly seen in our ISO 14001 standards and the adoption of EMAS methology, as the model of Environmental Management to be followed in our Integral System.

2009 Environmental declaration