The second enterprise of the Group for billing and significance is Industria Chimica Valenzana S.p.A., I.C.V, located in Borgoricco,  Veneto, 17 km far from Padova. I.C.V., acquired in 1984 from Bertolino Family, who has radically restructured and invested in equipments at the top of the technology, in order to be out of step with the continuous market transformations, and aiming to complete the productiveness of Distilleria Bertolino S.p.A., it is nowadays the world leader for the production of Natural Tartaric Acid.
The expansion within the market of the Tartaric Acid’s presence has finally come to take over,approximately 10 years ago, a share of a Spanish company, which has always been producing Tartaric Acid: “Industrias Quimicas Y Tartaricas”, then totally bought out by ICV, and also over the “Distilleries de Bagnols & SOGEC Reunies", a French industry producing Calcium Tartrate. ICV has recently opened its own branch in Argentina, for the production of Calcium Tartrate. The basic raw material for the production of Tartaric Acid, i.e. Calcium Tartrate, is widely self-produced within the Group, and totally sent to ICV, coming from its branch in Argentina, France  (Distilleries de Bagnols) and Sicily (Distilleria Bertolino S.p.A.), so conveying the Calcium Tartrate spreading from the lees, a typical product those three places.
The Production range of ICV is so wide that it’s possible to choose the granulometric composition of crystals or powders without any limit, always paying greatest attention to the different needs of final customers. All the existing pharmacopeias are obviously respected, and the Company is studying the establishment of an association which guarantees the natural product in order to exalt the characteristics and differentiate the origin, to let final or intermediate consumers know the value and the effects of their choice.

Numerous are the uses of Tartaric Acid:

Those are only some of the possible applications of this wonderful product, so universal because of its  wide versatility. The marketing of the product all over the world, together with a continuous improvement of the production cycle, all contribute to make the company successful. ICV S.p.A. is also present in the alcohol market, since it has a distillation plant able to produce alcohol from wine or cereals, other than storage tanks for alcohol and fresh wine distillate. The technology of its equipments also include a particular attention to the renewable forms of energy, in particular risen up from a depurative stage (aerobic or anaerobic digestion) with the production of biogas, with a symilar process also employed in Distilleria Bertolino S.P.A.

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