SEPI Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales

The Quality Management System at the Technological Center of Mercury S (MAYASA) has been awarded the certification in keeping with the UNE-EN ISO 9001:2008 norm by the OCA Instituto de Certificación, S.L.U. (Certificate number: 34/5200/16/0219). 

In this way, the Center improves its credentials and offers guarantees for those projects which require having such a certificate.

This certification is applicable to the following:

• Determination of mercury and heavy metals in solid, liquid, and biological samples,
• Determination of heavy metals, anions and ions in solid and liquid samples,
• Description of underground, waste and surface waters.

The exploitation through time of the mines has provided MAYASA’s professionals with a deep understanding of environmental issues regarding the decontamination and the safe storage of mercury.

Technological Center of Mercury

The Mercury Technological Center was set up as the national center for drawing together the initiatives for the research and technological development applied to the environmental problems raised by mercury and the health risks it poises. It was born as a place for collaboration with all the working groups, research institutes, universities and institutions, both at domestic and at international level, which are interested on the search of the knowledge and of solutions for the problems raised by this metal.

The Center carries out research work focused on offering scientific and technological support to those companies and institutions which require it for alleviating or elimination the risks attached to mercury’s presence in products, emissions, waste, and for taking part in projects and studies at international level. 

MAYASA and Grupo SEPI

MAYASA belongs to Grupo SEPI, a corporate holding which includes a total of 16 state-owned companies in which it has direct, majority shareholding participations, with a final workforce of around 73,000 professionals in 2014; the Spanish state-owned television and radio corporation, Corporación Radiotelevisión Española, which is attached to SEPI, and one public foundation. Equally, SEPI has direct minority shareholdings in a further ten companies, and indirect shareholdings in more than one hundred companies.