40 PRT GROUP /SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2021 Unione Industriali. It is a voluntary association of companies belonging to Confindustria. Its goals are to represent, protect and promote the development of companies. It stands as an important organization for the Group’s development. Riccardo Pesce, the PRT Group’s President, has been the president of Turin’s Graphic and Paper Industry sector for many years. This allowed PRT Group to be a key player in the production processes within the Turin area, thanks to a close knowledge of other entrepreneurs and the sector’s main issues. In practical terms, the constant attendance and tight contact with the association gave way to some fruitful opportunities to learn about newmethods and new approaches to themarket. For instance, a journey to Japan in 2012 that allowed to deepen the concepts of leanmanufacturing. It is a set of methods and tools that allow to streamline resources and improve a company’s performance through a lean production way aimed at reducing waste as much as possible. These concepts were later included in the Group’s corporate policy. Another significant journey brought PRT to the Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay area being home to several start-ups and international companies specializing in technology. It was an opportunity to deepen the understanding of the dynamics going on in an area that became famous for its garages where students and young engineers started companies such as Apple, Google or Hewlett Packard. This region is the homeland of enterprises and innovation, counting with 39 among the biggest US companies and thousands of start-ups. Assografici. It is a national association representing the Italian graphic and paper-industry companies, as well as those dealing with paper and cardboard transformation, and printing companies dealing with flexible packaging items. Assografici belongs to Confindustria and provides occasions tomeet, discuss, express values and protect the interests of entrepreneurs working in this sector. Such functions are carried out through representativeness, the ratification of two national labor contracts, and a range of services provided tomembers. PRT played an important role within Assografici as Riccardo Pesce was the president of the working group focusing on continuous feed paper, as well as vice-president, and gave a significant contribution to the closure of the penultimate national labor contract. More recently, Assografici has focused on sustainability and providedmembers with an online platform called FpS-TOOL; it helps companies in reporting their expenses. This service is based on a protocol integrating themain international sources and practices with other indicators developed with the forum Finanza Sostenibile (Sustainable Finance) and the Federation.
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