Water monitoring for continuous improvement

Through the unfolding of the materiality study carried out, in which the theme of Water and Effluent was identified as an important subject for Caramuru Alimentos, we started the work to define what would be our objectives for 2025 related to this material theme, based on our reality and market practices.

After this stage, we formed the WG water and effluent, composed of people working in each Unit related to the theme to seek investments in innovation, sustainable technology and processes. Through this Group, we carried out a diagnosis on water collection and effluent reuse, in which the reality of all Units was presented. With this work, water meters and hour meters were acquired at points that were not being monitored.

In one of the meetings of the WG water and effluent with the participation of the managers, the acquisition of hydrometers for measuring water consumption by productive sector was approved, with the aim of accounting for the consumption of each production process and proposing improvements to reduce this water consumption . 

Another action taken was the definition of the water consumption indicator aligned with the DDO (Operational Performance Diagnosis), being a methodology for monitoring operational efficiency by all of the Unit, Management and Industrial Directors.

Caramuru Alimentos has the practice of sending a daily production report to top management and key people, with important information related to the previous day of each production process, so we include in this report the volume of daily collection carried out by each Unit.

As the last action carried out by the group, it was the elaboration of a decision-making process between the Unit's supervisions for the elaboration of robust action plans, in order to achieve the two main objectives of reducing water abstraction and increasing the volume of reused effluent.

We are currently carrying out feasibility studies for the reuse of treated effluent in processes and our action is to define a control metric for the effluent reuse indicator and standardize the collection of effluent reuse between the Units. Other related actions are learning about computerized systems for managing water consumption and reusing effluents, and studying a plant automation project with the possibility of carrying out real-time monitoring of water collection and consumption.