Nuova Sesac, holding empresarial al que pertenece Selev Biogroup / Ga Alimentaria, participa junto a 57 entidades de seis comunidades en el proyecto Ecofood2023, que aborda todas las fases del sector agroalimentario español. Está enmarcado en la convocatoria europea de Proyectos Estratégicos para la Recuperación y Transformación Económica (PERTE).
The Valencian holding company NUOVA SESAC has taken a further step in its business model guided by social, economic and environmental sustainability by setting up SELEV BIOGROUP, a new group of companies specialising in the sustainability of bio-waste and the circular economy.
In the words of the CEO, Miguel Cases Monterde,with this new group we want to provide companies with a new way of demonstrating their environmental commitment and their CSR. We were convinced that both the union of our companies and having an integral vision of all the activities would allow us to create synergies between all of them and our clients in order to take advantage of resources in a more efficient, responsible and sustainable way in time”.
Solutions for a sustainable life
SELEV BIOGROUP offers integral and advanced solutions for the regeneration of biowaste. A model based on the 3R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle), providing them with a second life and generating new business opportunities."We collect, transport, separate and reincorporate bio-waste into the economic cycle, adding value”, adds the CEO.
For example, the group’s companies globally manage organic waste generated by the food and agriculture industry, in supermarkets, in the HORECA channel, and even in residents’ associations and in their own homes. Each of these bioresidues is treated in our plants to give them a new value and convert them into raw materials for animal feed, renewable energies (UCO for biodiesel, biofuels or biomass), biogas or products for agriculture (fertilizers), among others.
“This integral vision allows us to favour a perfect industrial symbiosis between our own companies and our clients/suppliers to demonstrate that an industrial development that respects the environment and the available natural resources is possible”, comments Miguel Cases Monterde.
Saving CO2 emissions into the atmosphere
The activities of SELEV BIOGROUP can reduce the carbon footprint that bio-waste can generate on the climate if not properly treated.
“We avoid incinerating biowaste, which would mean using twice as much energy, as well as burying it, which would mean expelling twice as much methane, which is even 21 times more harmful than CO2”, adds the CEO.
pecifically, the current volume of operations of SELEV BIOGROUP allows savings in emissions into the atmosphere of 320,000 tons of CO2 per year. "We estimate that in two years we could be talking about a figure close to 400,000 tons, as we are receiving a lot of interest from companies to implement our new model of biowaste management and circular economy”, concludes Miguel Cases.
Finally, the companies that are part of the new group, which has its own tax structure, are SELEV PET INDUSTRY (collection of sandach 3 and manufacturer of proteins and fats for animal feed), BIOCOM ENERGÍA and BIOCOM CUENCA (advanced biodiesel manufacturers), REMITTEL (collection and management of used and organic oil), MAVASER (collection of oils and sandach 1 and 2) and TEVA TANK (Logistic storage).
More information in www.selevbiogroup.es
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The President of Nuova Sesac, Miguel Cases Martínez has become part of the group of entrepreneurs that make up the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs (AVE) in an event held at the Marina de Empresas complex on February 29 within the framework of the Assembly General.
Miguel Cases Martínez thus joins the team of representatives of the main firms in the Valencian Community that make up this important organization that works to promote socioeconomic development in the region.
Before practically all the members of AVE, among which were Vicente Boluda, President of AVE and Juan Roig, President of Mercadona and host of the conference, Miguel Cases Martínez had the opportunity in his welcome speech to express the honour that it means for him to be an active part of this association and to join, “the more than 100 businessmen that make it up and that every day they put all their energy into large projects that generate wealth and employment”.
Likewise, in his presentation he wanted to highlight the family origin of Gracomsa Alimentaria which is part of the Valencian business group, Nuova Sesac, developed by the Cases family and which has been dedicated to the productive and industrial economy for three generations.
In this sense, the maximum representative of Gracomsa Alimentaria has influenced his commitment to innovation as a source of economic boost for the company and society. A value "that has allowed us to diversify our business and open new markets", according to his words.
He did not want to end his intervention without remembering Gracomsa Alimentaria commitment to environmental protection activity as well as its involvement with progress and sustainability through various Corporate Social Responsibility projects.
Consumption of premium quality pet food is the fastest growing in the North American pet food market, according to a recent article in the Washington Post that also analyzes other striking trends in this subsector, such as the landing of large multinationals that were just limited to human food so far.
The sale of processed pet food has doubled in the United States in the last fifteen years, reaching a turnover of $ 22 billion in 2014. However, this global growth seems not that much compared to the Premium Feed segment is experiencing, the specialty in which we operate at Selev Pet Industry as manufacturers of highly digestible and higher protein content for pet food.
The Washington Post article echoes a market study according to which 79% of North Americans are as demanding with the quality and food safety of their pets as with their own, within a widespread sociological phenomenon of “humanization of the animal domestic". Consequently, the Premium segment of pet food, already accounts for 50% of the US market, with $ 10.2 billion billed in 2014, and something similar occurs in Europe.