The international standards that deal with the environmental management are intended to provide to the organizations the elements for an effective environmental management system (SGA) that can be integrated with the other management requirements and that can help them to reach their environmental and economic goals.
As all the other international standards, also this one do not have the objective to create block or to enhance or modify the legal obligations of an organization; the UNI EN ISO 14001 specify the requirements of an environmental management system, in order to allow an organization to develop and implement a policy that take in consideration the legal requirements and information about the most significant environmental aspects.
The overall goal of this standard and of LVF SPA is to concur to the environmental protection and to the pollution prevention, coherently with the social and economic context needs.
From January 2015, LVF SPA is ISO 14001 certified.

The main environmental aspects related to our manufacturing are summarized below:

• Emission to the atmosphere;
• Water discharges;
• Noise;
• Ground contamination;
• Waste production;

LVF S.p.A. has a Quality Management System according to the requirements of ISO 9001-2008 and is accredited to

Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/CE (PED).

etc. Valve test facilities are available in house and non-destructive testing is performed by certified level II inspector (SNT-TC-1A, ISO 9712).