Federico Barredo Ardanza

Befesa is an international company specializing in the integral management of industrial wastes and the generation and management of water. They manage more than 2.5 Mt of industrial waste, allocating more than 1.2 Mt to the production of new materials through recycling; these activities prevent the emission of more than 1 Mt of CO2 per year. They have the capacity to desalinate more than 1Mm3 of water per day, equivalent to supplying 5 M people. Befesa provides solutions for managing industrial wastes, and managing and generating water, while taking into account its social responsibility to contribute to creating a sustainable world. Befesa, the environmental services subsidiary of Abengoa, is organized around four business units: Aluminum Waste Recycling, Steel and Galvanization Waste Recycling, Industrial Waste Management and Water. It also has a corporate section that supports the rest of the organization and provides valuable information in the areas of Legal Advice, Finance, Consolidation, Auditing, Human Resources and Sustainability Management, as well as Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, in order to establish a common management philosophy.

Befesa Medio Ambiente SL operates as a holding company which engages in financial investment and shareholding activities. It provides waste recycling and refuse system management services to clients in the industrial sector. The company was founded on October 8, 2004 and is headquartered in Sevilla, Spain.

Part of Befesa SA, Befesa Salt Slags Ltd. is a British company that engages in recycling steel dust and aluminum slags. The private company is based in Whitchurch, UK and was founded in 2000.

Befesa Medio Ambiente SA provides waste treatment services. Its services include management and recycling of steel dusts from electric arc furnaces, management and recycling of stainless and special steel dusts, recovery of zinc, and integral recycling of salt slags, SPLs, filters dusts, and milling residues. The company was founded on September 9, 1993 and is headquartered in Seville, Spain.