The latest FITT Experience has recently come to an end, involving the team of HERA, one of Italy’s largest multi-utility companies, operating mainly in the environment, water and energy sectors.

Begun on 3rd June with training sessions on corporate and sustainability issues at the Sandrigo Headquarters, the FITT Experience ended the following day at the Fara Vicentino production plant, to experience first-hand the production and logistics reality of FITT.

The meeting, entitled ‘Sustainability, materials and technologies with a low environmental impact for water network management’, to which the University of Padua (Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering) also contributed, represented a valuable opportunity for sharing, training and reflection, with the aim of identifying and providing concrete tools through which products can be evaluated in relation to the now fundamental issue of sustainability.

Sustainability as a common thread

Numerous topics were addressed: from Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to Environmental Product Declaration (EPD); from the advantages of Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) to the major theme of taxonomy, including low-impact pipes in PVC-A polymer alloy (PVC-HI)* and the new range in the sewage sector.

All topics, these, linked by a common principle, that of sustainability, today one of the fundamental pillars of the FITT Group identity.

Gathered around a round table, participants and speakers benefited from a reciprocal exchange of knowledge, solutions, possibilities and alternatives, aimed at identifying innovative technologies with reduced environmental impact for the construction of new works or the refurbishment of existing water networks in multi-utilities such as HERA.

In addition to technical classroom sessions, the FITT Experience offered participants the opportunity to visit the production plant in Fara Vicentino together with our Production and Logistics, Quality, Technology and R&D Lab Managers.

The FITT Bluforce Academy project

FITT Bluforce Academy was created with the aim of sharing FITT’s technical and technological know-how with players in the infrastructure networks sector. The Academy is a set of seminars, courses and experiential activities that FITT offers to designers, utility technicians and drainage consortia.

The Academy training programmes are constantly updated adapting to the concrete needs of the interlocutors creating a flexible and effective dissemination model.

(*) On a regulatory level, it is defined as a polymeric alloy of Poly Vinyl Chloride with high impact strength PVC-HI (such as PVC-M, PVC-A, PVC-CPE). PVC-HI (PVC-M, PVC-A, PVC-CPE) is a thermoplastic material that contains PVC resin with the addition of an impact modifier (PVC-High Impact). Depending on the type of impact modifier, the acronym HI can be replaced with various designations (PVC-A, Acrylic or PVC-A Alloy (polymer alloy); PVC-CPE, Chlorinated Polyethylene; PVC-M, Modified).