Pozza: more companies in the Treviso and Belluno area are becoming socially responsible. This is how our region looks at innovation.

Source: presidential press office of Treviso Belluno|Dolomiti Chamber of Commerce

Treviso, 10th July. In the midst of the pandemic – said Chamber of Commerce President Mario Pozza – in agreement with the Chamber’s Council and Board, we have decided to
look ahead and invest by making available a credit ceiling of 15,000 euro for local businesses determined to improve their processes and develop new products and services capable of producing
positive economic effects, social and environmental benefits. These are the three pillars that characterise Corporate Social Responsibility. I emphasised this in the presentation of the
2021-2026 mandate guidelines: Corporate Social Responsibility is one of our priorities and I am pleased that Councillor Valentina Cremona highlighted it during the second Council
meeting.

Every action to improve a company produces added value and, in a broader sense, a series of benefits for its stakeholders, – Pozza explains. – Producing positive economic, social
and environmental effects also means contributing to the implementation of the 17 objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, encouraging the local economic fabric to tackle the
criticalities of the current (linear) economic development model, choosing a more virtuous growth path and an integrated vision of sustainability. I congratulate with businesswomen and
entrepreneurs.

Also for this second edition, the award has been structured in 3 categories: Environmental Sustainable Innovation, Social Sustainable Innovation and Economic Sustainable
Innovation, for which the specially constituted Evaluation Committee assessed the 27 projects admitted at the end of the preliminary stage, deciding to award the three prizes, of €5,000 each,
to:

1. Free Green SRL from Colle Umberto (TV) – category I. environmental sustainability – with ICARO X4, the self-driving robot for agriculture, for the treatment
of fruit plants, without any pesticides: the new product guarantees respect for the environment and wine quality; ICARO ensures production flexibility and cost reduction for end users. It is
able to operate autonomously, without any command from staff, and to treat a vineyard field in 30 minutes, with a remote monitoring system such as a PC or Smart Phone and telemetry capable of
providing remote diagnostics for any maintenance work or anomalies. The patented guidance system allows the machine to run between the rows with absolute precision; each UVC treatment is
coordinated by the chemical and environmental laboratory on board each robot. Trademarks and patents have been registered worldwide;

2. Sviluppo & Lavoro SCS di Alpago (BL) – category I. social sustainability – for the project Reshoring of industrial productions in a non-conventional factory
(prison), which allows the return of delocalised productions and the re-employment of prisoners. It has been found that, in the prison world, especially in the field of assembly, there are
very few qualified technical skills; however, the prisoners are strong, unemployed people. Thanks to the relations with industrial companies, the awareness was raised that in many production
processes there are activities or process phases characterised by a high manual content, simple in execution and not automatable, which over the years have been delocalised to other countries,
mainly for cost reasons. The innovation of the project therefore concerns the reshoring of production thanks to the work of prisoners. An important local company, which believed in the project,
brought a first calender and various minor equipment from the factory it had in Romania to start up a production of cloths and pellets for cleaning glasses, customised with the brand of the
optician’s shop. After about 8 months from the start of the experiment, the company bought a second calender to double the initially planned production.