Tag: PCB

Fifty years ago, on 10 July 1976, the explosion of reactor A101 at the ICMESA plant in Meda (Milan) released 2,3,7,8-TCDD, known as “Seveso dioxin”, into the environment. It was the world’s most severe case of contamination by this substance and marked a definitive turning point in the global perception of environmental risk, contributing to the first European Directives on

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SEA Marconi has just completed a dehalogenation treatment (performed on-load, with the transformer energised and under load) at a hydroelectric power plant in Romania. These activities are routine for SEA Marconi, which performs 20 to 25 transformer treatments simultaneously every day in different areas of the world. In this specific case, however, the intervention was successfully carried out despite particularly

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My Transfo 2025 took place at the SERMIG – Arsenal of Peace in Turin, a symbolic venue born from the transformation of a former military site into a place of peace, solidarity and innovation.A meaningful setting for an event that celebrates knowledge as the true energy of transformation. With 190 participants, 96 companies and 25 countries represented, this was the

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The Italian Ministry of the Environment has removed all doubt: by December 31, 2025, all equipment containing PCBs in concentrations greater than 0.005% (50 mg/kg) and with a volume > 0.05 dm³ must be taken out of service, decontaminated, or disposed of. This clarification came in response to an official inquiry from Confindustria, Italy’s main industry association. It confirms an

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  On May 27, 2025, the CEI – Italian Electrotechnical Committee hosted in Milan a technical seminar titled: “Dielectric liquids for transformers: from mineral oil, through PCB, to esters”. Sea Marconi took part as a sponsor and speaker, offering a perspective that bridges the past and future of asset and risk management for transformers. The first presentation, by Vander Tumiatti,

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The first "episode" of this important milestone dates back to May 2020 with the publication of the call for tenders by The Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) through the agency for the sustainable management of persistent organic contaminants (POPs) in response to the obligations of the Stockholm Convention. www.popsegypt.com The tender, financed by the World Bank / GEF, was entitled: DecontaminationRead more

From 23 to 27 June 2019 in Rome, Sea Marconi will participate as speaker and silver sponsor at the ICDL – IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids. The ICDL, at its twentieth edition, hosts the major experts in the sector and is undoubtedly the event of the year for all professionals engaged in various ways in the management of the life

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Among the activities at the end of 2015, the training provided by Sea Marconi to a Philippine government delegation must surely be remembered. In particular, from 17 November to 20 November, 14 members of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), National Environment and Natural Resources Department, participated in an advanced training course on PCB problem management. The training programme was divided inRead more

After about a year since the last trip to Russia, on last 11 November 2015, Vander (Sea Marconi general partner) and Cristina Tumiatti (marketing and sales director) returned to Moscow to offer solutions to the PCB problem in Russia. This time, the invitation came from EDF Fenice-Russia, the organiser of an event dedicated to sustainable business; as part of thisRead more

Even Iran has put the PCB problem “on the agenda”: a special analysis was in fact dedicated to this topic during the “POP’s management workshop” held on 9 November in Tehran. The Iranian Ministry of the Environment and Industry is currently exploring the different solutions for management (inventory, decontamination, disposal) of the PCB problem; several international operators attended the meeting, eachRead more