In a few days the next Re-think Circular Economy Forum event will be held in Taranto, where one of the main topics will be Agri-food. To get fully into this topic, we repropose an interesting Case study that was the subject of the speech by Gianmarco Deleidi, Sector Manager – Esselunga Fish Purchasing Sales Management, during the Re-think event held in Milan in February this year. Gianmarco Deleidi began his speech by emphasizing how the word “Re-think” is truly representative of the soul of Esselunga, a company at the forefront in terms of innovation and attentive to the theme of circularity for many years already, driven also by the endorsement of the Ownership on these issues. The expression “Re-think” means at the same time reinventing, and rethinking models, and that is why the company wanted to integrate and correct, and in some cases even improve, all its processes at the supply chain level. All of Esselunga’s departments have been involved in the innovation process, but Gianmarco Deleidi’s talk focused on the Biandrate Processing Center where the company, a food company as well as a retailer, prepares all of the fish you see on the counters of its supermarkets. The center is in the province of Novara, was created in 2007 and is a unique plant in terms of area and volume with 31 thousand square meters; an average of 25 thousand tons of product are processed here, resulting in waste production. Inside the new plant of about 12 thousand square meters are highly automated lines that allow intercepting all processing waste and, even, it is possible to set and modify products directly during the processing stages. Inside the fish processing center, there is also a 2,500-square-meter sushi plant and 1,000 square meters dedicated to the production of ready-to-cook (the “food...
Month: September 2022
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20 September 2022Comunicato Stampa Taranto, 16 settembre 2022 – Un grande evento dedicato al futuro, alla sostenibilità, alla tutela degli ecosistemi. “Re-think – Circular Economy Forum” torna a Taranto il 3, 4 e 5 ottobre negli spazi del Dipartimento Jonico dell’Università di Bari, con un fitto programma di talk e tavole rotonde focalizzati su 6 aree tematiche: energie rinnovabili, mobilità sostenibile, agri-food, economia del mare, risorsa acqua, e valorizzazione dei rifiuti. Maggiori dettagli sul programma si possono trovare sul sito dell’evento: https://re-think.today/taranto-event-2022.php La manifestazione, organizzata da Tondo in collaborazione con Eurota ETS e con Eni come main partner è stata presentata questa mattina, durante una conferenza stampa nel Castello Aragonese di Taranto, cui hanno partecipato l’assessore al Patrimonio del Comune di Taranto Gianni Azzaro e il collega titolare dello Sviluppo Economico Fabrizio Manzulli, il direttore DIH Confapi Industria Taranto Maurizio Maraglino Miscianga, la direttrice di Its Logistica Puglia Luigia Tocci e l’Head of Partnerships in Tondo Francesco Fumarola. “Re-think – Circular Economy Forum” sarà un’occasione di confronto e creazione di valore, per il secondo anno consecutivo a Taranto, che rilancia questa presenza con tante altre nuove iniziative. Oltre il forum vero e proprio, che vedrà protagonisti di assoluto valore nel panorama dell’economia circolare, verrà infatti allestita anche un’area fieristica dove aziende, startup, enti di ricerca e istituti accademici, presenteranno i progetti che stanno portando avanti, con l’obiettivo di fornire più spunti per future collaborazioni a livello micro e macro territoriale. «Lo scorso anno vincemmo una scommessa – le parole dell’assessore Gianni Azzaro – perché l’amministrazione guidata dal sindaco Rinaldo Melucci scelse di sostenere questo evento, con lo scopo di rendere Taranto il luogo dove parlare di economia circolare. Avemmo un successo enorme, che quest’anno vogliamo ripetere e se possibile superare: Taranto dovrà ospitare la prima fiera italiana dell’economia circolare, figlia di questo evento. Tra...
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16 September 2022How creating a global marketplace for plastic recylates make plastic waste a thing of the past In 2018, cirplus’ journey began off the unlikely coast of Colombia. After building and scaling BlaBlaCar Germany – today’s largest ridesharing platform in the world – co-founder, Christian Schiller took himself on a well-deserved break. His idea was a beautiful trip around the world, sailing from coast to coast through the Caribbean to Colombia and Panama. However, on the open sea, he didn’t just have to consider the dark depths of the ocean and the irregular weather caused by global warming, he was face-to-face with a problem of magnitude – a hundred meters long dense carpets of plastic waste. Shocked, yet determined, Christian knew he had to do something to tackle this crisis. With co-founder, Volkan Bilici, web technologies veteran and blockchain expert, the idea of cirplus was born. The ambition of the founders was to create a global marketplace for circular plastics and take on the impressive task of making plastic waste history. Cirplus is the world’s-first global AI-enabled marketplace for circular plastics. Its software simplifies the currently complex trade of recyclates and plastic waste by digitalizing the complex, and largely offline, transactions of plastic waste feedstock, regrind and regranulates. Created for companies in the plastic and recycling value chain, cirplus mission is to build a platform for finding, negotiating, contracting, shipping, insuring, and paying for recyclates and plastic waste trades across the globe – a solution to the world’s plastic waste crisis. Its digital procurement platform connects waste managers, recyclers, and product manufacturers to buy and sell plastic recyclates in a reliable and cost-effective way. Using its software, it brings high-quality recyclates back into the supply chain at a lower transactional cost by using AI-enabled smart matching of supply and demand based on volumes, quality and price. Over time, AI...
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8 September 2022Comunicato Stampa HACKATHON E FIERA A RE-THINK TARANTO 2022 Milano, 29 agosto 2022 – Mancano poche settimane a “Re-think – Circular Economy Forum”, che si terrà per la seconda volta a Taranto il 3, 4 e 5 ottobre, negli spazi del Dipartimento Jonico dell’Università di Bari. Viene confermata per questa seconda edizione la modalità ibrida, in presenza e in remoto, anche per l’Hackathon che si sta organizzando parallelamente alla parte convegnistica e che si terrà il 3 e 4 ottobre in collaborazione con Eni attraverso Joule, la sua scuola d’impresa. Joule affianca le funzioni di business di Eni in diversi territori italiani per dare supporto ai progetti di salvaguardia ambientale e sviluppo del territorio, favorendo la crescita di startup innovative e sostenibili – ha sostenuto Mattia Voltaggio – Head of Joule, la scuola di Eni per l’impresa. – In particolare, la nostra partecipazione a Re-think – Circular Economy Forum si focalizza sugli ambiti di innovazione portuale e blue economy, che sono da sempre temi importanti per Eni nell’ambito dell’azzeramento delle emissioni scope 3. L’Hackathon è stato pensato per tutti gli studenti, i neolaureati ed i dottorandi delle università italiane dando priorità ai candidati delle università pugliesi, che vogliono mettersi in gioco implementando e perfezionando le proprie competenze e conoscenze per lo sviluppo di soluzioni circolari (il termine per le iscrizioni è il 25 settembre, questo il link per iscriversi: https://bit.ly/3pSKhVR e questo il link per il regolamento: https://bit.ly/3AWj4I3). In particolare, saranno quattro le sfide sulle quali i team, che potranno essere composti da un minimo di 2 ad un massimo di 5 membri, si confronteranno: Porti digitali e circolari proposta da Eni attraverso Joule, la sua scuola d’impresa; Porti sostenibili proposta da Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ionio; Agricoltura rigenerativa e circolare proposta da Cantine San Marzano ed infine, Protezione degli Ecosistemi proposta da Renexia. Re-think...
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1 September 2022During the Re-think Circular Economy Forum held in Taranto in 2021, Cees Willem Koorneef, Director of PortXL Antwerp, shared some insights from the Netherlands, in particular about the port of Rotterdam, and about what is actually happening in global challenges, but he also gave some inspiration from the port ecosystems, as he called it the “Dutch Magic”. It’s all about the global challenges, therefore not only the challenges in Italy, but also in the port of Rotterdam where he has been working for 25 years. The main challenges in the world Ports regards: • demand and supply, changing a lot because of Covid-19 pandemic and also because of a ship blocking the Suez channels lately; • predictibal logistics; • global congestion: in the big ports all over the world everybody is looking for empty containers, there’s a congestion of ships waiting on the anchorage; • carbon footprint; • the need for energy transition and, with this transition, also comes the urge for digitalization: the ports logistics is still a bit conservative, there’s a need for digitalized sensors and traceable logistics. To create a sustainable port ecosystem, Cees Willem Koorneef said PortXL believes in building coalitions, consortia and it’s crucial to be aware of your innovation ecosystem. Of course you need talent in your ecosystem, so youth education is crucial, but also an innovation maturity of your corporate companies (this is something PortXL is exploring in many ports), startup activities, so in which way are young companies being promoted and stimulated as a spin-off of the universities or to start your own business as an entrepreneur. The other pieces of the puzzle are about capital (there needs to be money available to really support innovation in the ecosystem) and the ecosystem connectedness. The experience in the port of Rotterdam underlines that,...