Rotoplas improves 54 positions in the 2018 ranking of the 500 companies facing corruption.

Rotoplas improves 54 positions in the 2018 ranking of the 500 companies facing corruption.

In alignment with the focal point 1 of the Sustainability Strategy: Corporate Sustainability Governance, Grupo Rotoplas entered the ranking 2018: 500 companies facing corruption published by the Expansión Magazine.

Year by year, The Expansión Magazine develops a study from public information of the companies from the visibility of information at their websites. For this exercise, companies are evaluated through a questionnaire based on the publication of anti-corruption policies in alignment with the Transparence of Corporative Information (TRAC) of International Transparence.

In the questionnaire, 28 questions are analyzed, the questions are grouped in four axes: (1) Publicity of the elements of an anti-corruption integral policy; (2) Scope and socialization of the anti-corruption policy; (3) Monitoring system, complaint and penalties; (4) Accessibility of the information.

In this evaluation Rotoplas obtained the place #262, by improving 54 positions in respect of the previous year. We understand that this year we improved in the ranking by the transparency of our anti-corruption policies, but there’s still a long way to go.

This is how Grupo Rotoplas visualizes his effort in the Sustainability Strategy by the external recognition, and continues to collaborate in the daily improvement of its reputation and the disponibility of information by being a public company.

We invite you to know other advances in the Sustainability Strategy in our website www.rotoplas.com/sustentabilidad

Rotoplas has translated into three different indigenous languages their manuals of the solutions for rain catchment and rural sanitation.

With these translations, it is easier to use and take care of the solutions for the Zapoteco, Mazateco and Tseltal speakers. ateco y Tseltal

In the frame of the international day of the mother tongue and in the effort for preserving the cultural richness of our country, Rotoplas has translated his comic intro three different prehispanic languages is manual for catchment systems, wet bath and purifier for households.

The mother tongue refers to these acquired at home, through the people that were responsible for breeding; included fathers, grandfathers, brothers or others.

The comic, that Rotoplas prints in color, serves as a didactical manual with images and text and seeks to generate and promote in an accessible way, good practices of use and maintenance of the solutions to favor the impact of the water catchment, wet baths and purifiers, for households. It additionally includes safety suggestions for the users to consider.

The comic is named “¡El agua ya pasa por mi casa!”, translated to Zapoteco as “Ma’ napadu nisa”, in Mazateco “¡Ja faa ndifa ngatjen nga ni yana!”, and in Tseltal “Te ja’e ya xk’axix ta jna”. In three different sections, the comic explains in a friendly way the functioning of the water catchment, wet bath, purifier and self-cleaning biodigester systems.

This initiative is aligned with the third focus of the sustainability model for Rotoplas: Impulse for socioeconomic development. This focus seeks to secure the social impact of the company solutions, which includes the indicators related to water access and sanitation in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals and the local criteria of poverty measurement.

The comic is directed to the people of communities that doesn’t count with water access and sanitation; or whose access is restricted or limited: This is why, the translation of the comic to the original languages has aloud us to get to populations that belong to the states of Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Puebla achieving not only the objective of maintaining well informed the majority of our users, but at the same time, to continue fomenting the use of prehispanic languages which are a cultural heritage of great value for our country.

You can know more about this and other initiatives of sustainability in our website: http://10.10.12.72/sustentabilidad

Rotoplas Group uses solar energy in 5 of its production plants

Rotoplas Group uses solar energy in 5 of its production plants
In alignment with the focal point 2 of the sustainability strategy of Rotoplas: Collaborative innovation with purpose, and emphasizing operational efficiency, Rotoplas Group develops projects that incorporate renewable energies in the productive processes of the company.

With this type of initiatives, we avoid the emission of greenhouse gases and diminish the dependence in fossil fuels, which aren´t renewable.

With this focus, Rotoplas Group has impulse the installation of 5,832 solar panels in its plants located in Mochis, Veracruz, Mérida, Guadalajara and Anáhuac. From the total of panels, 1,749 have been installed in the roofs of such plants and 4,083 panels have been installed in tertiary roofs. In joint, we have reached a total generating capacity of 2,294 kW. Allowing annual energetic savings of 3,640 kW.

With this Project, we will obtain 2,141,176 clean energy certificates (CEC’s) which can be sold to other users as carbon bonuses, to solve the impacts generated by the conventional models of production.

The Project will have a duration of 30 years. Starting with the installation of the panels in the month of April 2019. Nowadays the project is still in development and the interconnection with CFE is being generated to allow the own panels that are already connected to start working.

In the same way, these panels complement the acquisition of clean energy of the Company. This project considers data such as quantity of solar energy caught and the networks of energetic distribution to define better initiatives of electrical supply. By this, we strengthen our business behavior by being responsible with the environment.

This is how Rotoplas Group continues to collaborate in the continuous improvement of the environmental impact of its operations, in alignment with the generated agreements that took place on the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), which seek to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.

We invite you to learn more about other projects in our sustainability website www.rotoplas.com/sustentabilidad

The first sustainable school of Argentina is constructed near Buenos Aires

The first sustainable school of Argentina is constructed near Buenos Aires
With the objective of being the first sustainable municipality of Argentina, Mar Chiquita receives in 2018 the project “A sustainable school”. Rotoplas would help the students of the school with getting access to water.

The program “A sustainable school” have the goal of developing a network of several public schools of Latin America that are self-sufficient. By generating a triple impact: in the children that study in the school, the community that surrounds it and the society in general.

The initiative was launched by Tagma, which is an organization that woks in the educative, the community and the massive sector among other allies. The project is located in Mar Chiquita which is one of the municipalities with the biggest biodiversity in Argentina. There you can find: sea, sand beaches, lagoons, prairies, dunes, grasslands and streams.

For constructing the school, they used a method developed by the arquitect Michael Reynolds and its enterprise Earthship Biotecture which has been used for around 45 years to generate self-sufficient buildings around the world. The design of the school seeks to take advantage of the energy from the sun, the water, the wind and the ground.

The concept of Earthship is designed to develop spaces under 6 fundamental principles that guarantee self-sufficient buildings comfortable for their users:

• Natural and recycled materials.
• Solar heat and thermic mass.
• Solar Electricity.
• Harvesting water.
• Sewage water.
• Food production.

To secure that the school has a sustainable access to water, Rotoplas helps to supply and install 28 rain water catchment systems. This collected water would be principally used for human consumption, sanitation, crop harvesting and storage.

The project would benefit indirectly around 23,000 persons that live in the municipality. This way, in Rotoplas we seek to help to guarantee the access to water and sanitation in schools, houses, communities and public spaces by improving the quality of life of people. We invite you to know about other successful projects in our site: Solutions for development.

 

Rainwater harvesting systems for households in the State of Mexico

Rainwater harvesting systems for households in the State of Mexico
In the efforts of reconstruction after the earthquake in Mexico City of the past September 2017, Rotoplas collaborates with other allies to supply rain water catchment systems to the affected houses.

The earthquake affected severely the population in Mexico City, Chiapas, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca y Puebla. The event helped to awake the spirit of solidarity of Mexicans that helped in every way the affected persons.

The most challenging phase has been the reconstruction, because several families are in the uncertainty of having a home again. Thus, several social organizations have come to the idea of developing integral projects of reconstruction that helps to reduce the waiting time, helps the affected persons to get involved in the reconstruction process and guaranteeing a secure home again.

This is why Rotoplas is working with strategic allies involved in the reconstruction phase of affected houses. Along with the foundation “Vamos a dar” and through the “Programa de Apoyo para Zonas Afectadas (PAZA)”. Rotoplas has developed a rainwater catcher system that aloud around 200 families to use the resource in an efficient way. These systems let the users use the rain water for consume, food washing, purification and other domestic chores. The total capacity of storage is around 80, 000 liters.

By the end of this project, that is expected to last around 3 months, around 200 houses of the municipalities of Ocuilán, Villa Guerrero, Tenancingo y Joquicingo in the State of Mexico are going to diminish their dependence of the water net, by counting with a sustainable system of rainwater catchment that elevates their life quality by getting access to water.

We invite you to know about other successful project in our website: Solutions for development.