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Water Consumption & Discharges

Water Consumption & Discharges

As with other natural resources, industrial processes are designed to ensure responsible water consumption under efficiency and minimum environmental impact criteria.

WATER CONSUMED

2021
2022 40
2023 41
TOTAL
2023 42
SPAIN
2023
BRAZIL
2023
FRANCE
Water consumed (m3)
37,090
64,622
85,200
71,204
4,467
9,529

40. The data reported regarding water consumption in the 2021 Sustainability Report was an estimation and differs from this because, at the time that document was published, the actual data on water consumption for some plants was not available for quarter four of 2021. However, the data reported now also includes estimates, as some invoices have not yet been received.
41. At the time this report was finished we did not have final water consumption data available for all the plants for 2023, so we have calculated it based on the data from 2022.
42. The increase compared to 2022 is due to the inclusion, in 2023, under the heading ‘Spain’ of all facilities linked to Aciturri and its subsidiaries (Aciturri Aeronáutica, S.L.U., Aciturri Aerostructures, S.L.U., Aciturri Engineering, S.L.U. and Aciturri Aeroengines, S.L.U.), together with the Alestis facilities (consumption 2022: 22,925 m3, es per 2022 report).

Aciturri's production facilities draw their water from the municipal sewage network.

Water consumption is limited to sanitation, except at the Ayuelas, Vitoria and Ircio facilities, where process water is used. It is also used in facilities with composite material manufacturing technologies to cool the autoclaves’s cooling towers. In the case of Vitoria, when an anodizing bath liquid concentrate is produced for disposal, the authorized waste manager takes care of this removal, which is never disposed of as discharge. After an internal purification process, the rest of the wastewater is discharged into the public water supply or the sewage system under the Discharge Authorisation granted.

When the discharge is sewage, it goes directly to the sewage network and from there to the corresponding local sewer.