(Adnkronos) - Sorgerà in provincia di Arezzo, il presidente Dal Fabbro:”Iren è in prima linea per l'affermazione di un nuovo paradigma di sostenibilità e indipendenza che può disegnare per l'Italia un ruolo di nuova e rafforzata competitività"
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00:00With 1.2 billion euros of investments, Italy can reduce its dependence from abroad for
00:13first-critical matters by almost a third, generating over 6 billion euros of added value
00:18for the sector by 2040. This is one of the main evidences emerged from the Italian roadmap
00:23for first-critical matters written by IREN, a study of which results have also been brought
00:28to the Ecomondo of Rimini, the fair of the circular economy of sustainability.
00:33First-critical matters are a key element for national competitiveness, contributing to 690 billion euros
00:39of industrial production of the country, which is equal to 32% of the Italian GDP.
00:44It is therefore essential to invest in plant capacity for recovery and treatment,
00:50since today 90% of the components of the RAE, from which first-critical matters are extracted, are exported.
00:58IREN, in all this, candidates itself to be the main operator of reference for the recovery
01:04from the waste of these critical materials. We do this with the construction and launch
01:09of the first critical materials recovery plant in Arezzo on December 11, in the presence
01:15of the institutions, and we will present a plant that recovers critical materials from
01:20the electrical waste.
01:22In Italy, the plants accredited for the recovery and treatment of the RAE are not suitable
01:27for the production volumes. Only 47 plants out of 1,071 are accredited, equal to 4.3%.
01:34IREN candidates itself to become the operator and leader of the sector.
01:38To give an example of how much this plant recovers, for example,
01:42per year we will produce about 200 kilograms of gold, which is an important amount,
01:48nickel, copper, palladium. So, let's say, it is a plant that will become strategic
01:54and that will be the beginning of a new strategy of IREN in the collection,
02:00valorization and extraction of metals or critical materials that must be used
02:08for the industry and for our manufacture.
02:12In January 2024, IREN issued a green bond of 500 million euros, which shows
02:17to the group the market welcomed in a very satisfactory way, a sign that investors
02:22are increasingly interested in sustainability.
02:25We have a strategy very much linked to sustainability, to the circular economy,
02:30to the regenerative economy and therefore we are absolutely in line and coherent
02:35with this type of investors and the issuance of a green bond shows us,
02:40in addition to being totally coherent with this, also very interested in further developing
02:46this type of financial activity.