Sidenor 2022 Sustainability Report

15 partnership also enhances sustainability by keeping competitive graphite- electrode production in Europe; in addition, ladle furnace electrodes will be manufactured using 100% renewable energy. MAY  Sidenor renews its certification according to ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards.  Within the framework of circular economy, completion of the recovery of refractories used in steel mills, standardizing the use of the remaining isostatic refractories as raw material for the manufacturing of aluminous concretes which are used in steel mills for non-critical applications and replacing the current ones, which were manufactured using 100% virgin raw material, thus also reducing the carbon footprint. JUNE  Within the roadmap of its ESG strategy, Sidenor adheres to the United Nations Global Compact , the widest Corporate Sustainability initiative worldwide. With this adherence, Sidenor strongly commits to complying with the Principles throughout the entire supply chain, and intends to strengthen its Good Governance actions in ethical business management.  Sidenor takes a step further in its commitment to supporting diversity and inclusiveness with the adherence of its Chairman, José Antonio Jainaga, to the initiative promoted by the Adecco Foundation and the CEOE Foundation, “CEO Por La Diversidad” (“CEO For Diversity”) . This alliance, which is a pioneer in Europe and represents a benchmark in Spain regarding the development of diversity, equity and inclusiveness policies, aims at supporting the top management of the main companies in our country in building, in a collaborative manner, missions and strategies which respond to the interests of the society.  Go-live of the project for the monitoring of our supply chain’s risk level according to ESG criteria , with the launch of an electronic platform managed by the company GoSupply.  Sidenor attends the Wire 2022 trade fair and presents its commitment to emission- neutral steel .