Dorogobuzh first in Smolensk region receives comprehensive environmental permit from Rosprirodnadzor

Dorogobuzh (a member of Acron Group) has become the first company in Smolensk region to obtain a comprehensive environmental permit regulating all types of man-made environmental impact. The order granting Dorogobuzh a seven-year permit was signed by Stanislav Stefanenko, head of the Interregional Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) for Moscow and Smolensk regions.

‘Preparing the permit documentation was a very large and complex task’, said Vitaly Shorokhov, head of the Industrial, Occupational and Environmental Safety Department at Dorogobuzh. ‘The collection of information by the company’s units, which began three years ago, was reviewed by the Technical Re-equipment Department and, based on the data obtained, Dorogobuzh developed the production standards that comply with the best available technologies’. According to Shorokhov, these standards determine the negative environmental impact per unit of manufactured product.

‘The comprehensive environmental permit is an extremely complex document. To prepare it, we calculated the standards for permissible emissions and discharges, justified the standards for production and consumption waste generation and limits for their disposal, and developed an industrial environmental control programme’, said Nadezhda Yushko, head of Dorogobuzh’s Environmental Protection Team. ‘During the preparation, we took into account all comments of Rosprirodnadzor and Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade’.

In 2023, Dorogobuzh implemented 24 environmental measures related to air and surface water protection and waste management, worth more than RUB 73 million. Acron Group invested a total of RUB 173 million in environmental efforts during the year.

‘As part of Acron Group’s unified ESG strategy, Dorogobuzh is taking a comprehensive approach to reducing its environmental footprint. In addition to technical solutions, including equipment upgrades and the introduction of nature- and resource-conserving technologies, we strictly comply with environmental legislation and principles of environmental responsibility’, said Roman Dmitriev, Executive Director of Dorogobuzh. ‘Our dedicated work to obtain the permit has resulted in new approaches to planning and implementing our environmental policy’.