Confindustria Emilia Area Centro changes register and puts in place "a meticulous industrial policy plan". Word of the president Alberto Vacchi, who indicates the way to go to enhance and develop local businesses. This also passes through a new organization for the association's supply chains.
The Emilia branch is the first in the Confindustria system to adopt this new scheme. There will be 20 supply chains: Agri-food, Automotive, Paper & Printing, Chemical & Pharmaceutical, Construction & Infrastructure, Digital, Electronics & Mechatronics, Energy, Facilities, Home, Machinery, Mobility & Logistics, Fashion & Luxury, Packaging, Plastic, Metals, Health , Professional Services, Tourism & Culture and Commercial Vehicles. From 2018 work will begin on an observatory, which will provide detailed reports with performance indications, constantly updating the picture of the various sectors.
“Our country – explains Vacchi – is a constellation of districts and supply chains, in which large companies and SMEs collaborate. The supply chains are a tool for remaining competitive, a system which has favored, over time, not only the growth of small-sized companies, but also of medium-sized industrial groups. Globalization has brought about some structural changes, such as the fragmentation of territorial production systems and the evolution towards real internationalized 'value chains'. The data tell us that in the future what will count will be belonging to a supply chain capable of competing on the world market”.
Long-term strategic decisions derive from this premise. “In our vast area – announces Vacchi – we will work with a meticulous industrial policy plan which must have three main goals”. In the first place, enhance what already exists and provide training. Therefore, 'chain academies' will arise which, after the technical institutes, will be the venue for continuous training and updating for those who work or need to retrain. “The second aim will be to develop and support the contamination between new businesses and existing manufacturing. Already in September we started with 'Emilia 4.0 – 1st Wave Tour', an initial pilot project which provided an audience of 75 new companies, of which about thirty are in the prototyping phase and 16 generate revenue streams”.
A work that will be presented in the next quarter in the various areas of the territory to the reference supply chains: Agritech, Robotics, Electromedical and Industrial IoT. "The third objective - adds the entrepreneur - is to attract multinationals, which recognize the quality of our know-how and can find their best applied research laboratories in our territories". Each supply chain, within the first half of 2018, will have a president, i.e. an ambassador in the world with the task of making it attractive, enhancing that "part of manufacturing and design that still makes our territory strong".
