The plant lies close to the city of Los Andes, in an industrial zone, but it is also close to residential areas (east), to a school (south) and to farmland (south-west). It stands next to a Peugeot car manufacturing plant.
 
The covered area of the entire site totals 14,000m². The town of Los Andes is 75 km north of Santiago, the capital city. The plant produces and assembles gearboxes.

The plant is considered by the administration as generating no industrial liquid effluents apart from sanitary waste. Industrial liquid effluents are treated externally.

The site implemented actions to control water loss, resulting in a decrease in consumption in 2009.

Over the last few years the site has rolled out initiatives to reduce energy consumption, including the implementation of an automatic system to turn out lights and the disconnection of machines when not in operation.

An increase in production (start-up of crankcase machining and turning of gears) notably impacted electricity consumption, which increased from 7,469 KWh in 2008 to 9,500 KWh in 2009.

	2009	Change since 2008	Change since 2004
Water consumption (thousands of m3)	29.7	-12%	61%
Atmospheric emissions
Direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions (t CO2 equivalent)	6,151	*	*
NOx emissions (t)	1.2	-2%	59%
SO2 emissions (t)	0.1	-2%	59%
Hazardous waste (t)	1,065	0%	*
Energy (MWh LHV)	17,114	12%	77%

 

(*): change in scope

 

For further details, see registration documents: 

 

• 2009 registration document
• 2008 registration document
• 2007 registration document