EMS Group S.p.A. is proud to be among the companies eligible for financing for the Promotion of investments in Emilia-Romagna. A call for tenders aimed at creating strategic projects with a high employment impact and which supports high-tech industrial research activities. 

In addition to the concrete support that the tender will provide to the selected companies, it is also an acknowledgement for those who carry out research and development activities that contribute to maintaining our region’s leading position in high-tech production chains.

“The Emilia-Romagna Regional Government has rewarded our Group for demonstrating a drive for innovation. With a project of more than €4 million over a two-year period, we will invest in an intralogistics platform that will change the paradigm of material handling.
In addition to EMS’s development plan, it is also expected to create 35 new job positions, 18 of which will be filled by graduates, thereby helping to increase skills in our region.” Valeriano Casci, CEO of EMS Group 

Out of the €4.7 million invested in the project, €2 million will be financed by the Regional tender.
Implementing industrial intralogistics with integrated management of flows and a high rate of automation in handling goods and materials (both inside and outside plants) means restoring efficiency and ensuring safer workplaces for those who work there.
EMS Group’s research aims to connect technologies and information to create systems that are optimized both in terms of operations and strategic management.  

This project, like the other 25 projects that were awarded the tender, which together will generate investments of over €77 million (€31.5 million financed by the regional government) and the employment of 733 new recruits (including 399 graduates), is an extremely high-tech investment plan that will increase the competitiveness of the entire Emilia-Romagna industrial system, strengthening its capacity for innovation.

“This confirms how Emilia-Romagna is becoming a true national and European platform of big data and high technology, capable of guiding our economy towards complete sustainability and digital transition,” says Stefano Bonaccini, President of Emilia-Romagna.

“We are dealing with projects characterized by a high level of digitalization and technical innovation in terms of processes and products”, points out Vincenzo Colla, Councilor for Economic Development, “which, by implementing research and development activities concerning sensors, big data, artificial intelligence and robotics, introduce new products and services that cover strategic sectors of our region, such as agroindustry, mechatronics, health, mobility, and energy.”

Digital transformation must become the main goal of all companies that want to grow and remain competitive on an international level. This is why the tender promoted by Emilia-Romagna is of vital importance: “The integrated system made up of public and private investments envisaged in the Pact is not only a widely accepted practice, but is also implemented in the system, an asset to be strengthened over time” – Vincenzo Colla.

Also from an employment perspective, this initiative aims to create “new stable and quality jobs” – Stefano Bonaccini; out of the 35 new employees planned for the EMS Group project, 18 will be graduate researchers.   

This economic effort towards quality jobs is part of a broader project of the Pact for Work and Climate signed by the regional government with local entities, trade unions, businesses and regional universities, which includes four strategic objectives: Emilia-Romagna, the region of knowledge and know-how; the region of ecological transition; the region of rights and duties; of work, of businesses and opportunities. 

Digital transformation is the first of the cross-sectoral processes identified by this path and, since 2016, the contributions made by the regional government amount to €90 million and have mobilized investments of over €246 million, creating thousands of new stable and quality jobs.