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TINO IS COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Tino Natural Stone promotes the increase of awareness and collaboration of all of its company members, encouraging education and environmental awareness. The main objectives of this Environmental Management system are based on reducing potential environmental impacts and visual impacts, the reforestation of its quarries to contribute to greater sustainable development and a better quality of environement.

at Tino Natural Stone, we are aware of how our activities may affect the environment and for that reason, we have set up an Environmental Management System, based on the ISO Standard 14001:2004.

Reforestation as a matter of vacation to look after the environment
As part of our environmental policy, Tino Natural Stone is committed to looking after the surroundings in which we work to the greatest extent possible. The company takes great pains to carry out ambitious reforestation work in former quarries and constantly maintains the area for several years.

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Removal
debris

Alignment
ground

Planting
trees

Quarry
reforested

REMOVAL OF DEBRIS
Once the exploitation work on the quarry has finished, this is the desolate image that remains. This is the point at which all debris is removed from the area.
GROUND ALIGNMENT
clip_image004 The next step is to level off the ground surface, in order for it to be covered with top soil and the relevant processes carried out to optimize the germination of crops.
PLANTING OF TREES
clip_image008 This is how is looks months afterwards. This is when trees are planted on the slopes.
REFORESTED QUARRY
clip_image012 This is how a completely reforested quarry looks, At Tino Natural Stone, we fulfil our environmental and social commitments, as well as giving back to Mother Nature some of the wealth that we have extracted from her.

The company considers reforestation to be "an obligation, but at the same time, one the greatest sources of satisfaction that we can gain from the areas in which there was once a quarry" A. Valdés, Chairman of Tino Natural Stone.