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Italian cleaning is green

EU Ecolabel prizes awarded at Pulire 2017 to virtuous with the useful. For those, of

numerous companies in the professional cleaning sector course, who were ready in sufficient
time to see in the crisis the element
of opportunity that every crisis bears
Noemi Boggero within.

These were the reasons why the
ver since Stefania plement the culture of its members newly-appointed General Secretary
Verrienti was ap- and indicate “virtuous” and advan- instituted the Clean Green Award
pointed Afidamp tageous courses of action to them. in 2009 as an international acknowl-
Secretary General, edgement every two years for prod-
Ethe Italian Associa- Mindful by nature of environ- ucts, systems, and services in the
tion of professional cleaning indus- mental protection prob- professional and industrial cleaning
try, has been caught up in her spirit lems, Stefania Verrienti sector with a marked vocation for
of initiative, and with the approval of proved capable of seizing environmental protection. This was a
dynamic management committees the opportunities offered prize for the companies who had dis-
open to innovation, a series of ac- by the growing concept tinguished themselves for research
tivities were launched that brought of the “Green Economy” at and innovation in the direction of
the organization to be a reliable the time (2008-2009) and with tena- sustainable cleaning.
point of reference in both the pro- cious determination made pertinent
duction (FAB) and communication proposals to the sector, which as all What’s more, Afidamp was one of
(COM) components for the market the other productive sectors was the key players in the machinery sec-
and Italian and foreign institutions. diffident in assessing the potential tor for the institution of the EPD (En-
benefits against the initial outlay of vironmental Product Declaration), an
Afidamp has steadily confirmed its capital difficult at the time (all the instrument now part of European
attention to all the issues and dy- more so because of the global crisis community environmental policies
namics that affect the market, often triggered by the Lehman Brothers designed to improve environmental
even anticipating them through bankruptcy in economies all over the communication among producers
felicitous intuition, assuming so- world) to consider as an investment (business to business), dealers, and
cial-ethical commitments of note- that would prove to be useful in the consumers (business to consumers).
worthy substance in order to im- mid- to long-term, combining the Stefania Verrienti Derived from the ISO 14020, the EPD

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