Antonio Gozzi writes to employees and partners

by | Apr 15, 2020 | News

The letter written by Antonio Gozzi, President of Duferco Italia Holding, to all the employees and partners.

To all employees and partners

I am writing to you to express the support of the Duferco Group in this difficult moment.

The harsh limitations that we are facing to contain the spreading of the Covid-19 pandemic have changed our lives with high sacrifice for everyone. We need to respect the rules issued by governments and institutions in order to protect ourselves and our families but also to allow Italy to end the nightmare.

Everyone is worried about the future and its uncertainties. We do not know when we will beat the virus and we do not know how our habits and our economic situation will look like when we will be allowed to start over with our usual lives. We must be prepared to a slow and difficult recovery, because the virus is hitting unimaginably hard: it will require strength, intelligence and patience.

Our aim is to restart our activities and reopen our plants as soon as possible applying a rigorous protocol that will allow to our employees and external partners to work safely. For this reason we recently shared with all the representatives of workers (RSU and RLS) and with the health staff the rules, protections, distancing and the organizational revisions that will be adopted to make offices and plants safe places.

Augusto, Vittoria and I are working night and day with our managers to reopen our companies and to protect our colleagues preserving their future. Duferco Group’s ability to overcome the crisis and restart its path is critical: we are confident to have the strength and the ability to do it.

We will struggle to protect all of you in order not to exclude anyone and to find the right economic balance to go ahead.
We have always said that we consider our group and our companies as a family. This is the moment to prove it true in these dire times, while staying unite and supportive.

Over our history we have won many difficult challenges, we will win this too.

I embrace you all,
Antonio Gozzi

The final workshop of the research project “iSafety – Leveraging artificial intelligence techniques to improve occupational and process safety in the iron and steel industry” was held at the University of Brescia. The project is funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the PNRR – Next Generation EU programme.

Developed by the University of Brescia in collaboration with ICAR-CNR, the project explored the application of mathematical models and artificial intelligence techniques to the analysis of safety data in the steel industry. The aim was to identify recurring patterns and support more effective prevention strategies.

Duferco Travi e Profilati took part as industrial partner. The company actively contributed to the project activities and provided the industrial case study on which the research was based.

The Industrial Contribution

Within Duferco, the analysis focused on the Electric Arc Furnace area, one of the most complex operational environments in the plant. Process data and information from monitoring systems were collected and analysed. This enabled a deeper assessment of operating dynamics and the identification of patterns relevant to the prevention of critical situations.

The integration of sector safety data with industrial data made it possible to validate the model in a real production environment. The results confirmed its ability to support risk analysis in a highly complex industrial setting.

Dialogue Between Research, Institutions and Industry

The final workshop provided an opportunity for discussion between academia, institutions and industry. Representatives from Confindustria Brescia, ATS Brescia and INAIL Brescia also took part, offering complementary perspectives on safety in the steel sector.

The collaboration between universities, research centres and industry highlights the value of a coordinated approach. It strengthens the protection of people through advanced data analysis and supports the transfer of scientific expertise into practical industrial applications.

Duferco Travi e Profilati S.p.A.
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