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Industry association Afidamp celebrated its 40th year recently, writes Anna Garbagna in Italy.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Afidamp took a large space dedicated to its members at the ISSA Pulire exhibition in Verona and presented awards to Senior Members and Best Members.

The Senior Member award was presented to those who have been involved in the association for at least 35 years and played a vital role in the development of its activities during that time. The Best Member award went to those who have excelled during the last two years with their absolute commitment and significant contributions towards the work of Afidamp.

The event was hosted by Maurizio Pedrini with the support of Giuseppe Riello, current president of Afidamp; Andrea Risi, first president of Afidamp in 1981 and Stefania Verrienti, Afidamp director, who together retraced the important milestones in the history of the association by remembering the early days and all the progress made since.

The  Senior Member award went to these companies: DHP (Luca Giraldo collected the prize), Dianos (Elio Zibra), Diversey (Michele Guida), Duplex (Patrizia Scarselli and Leonardo Lunardi), Eureka (Renato Scremin), ICE FOR (Sergio Antoniuzzi), Ing O. Fiorentini (Paolo Raffini and Angelo Morana), Santoemma (Massimiliano Santoemma), TMB (Giampaolo Ruffo), Eurocom Nordovest (Matteo Bergonzo and Flavio Bethaz), ISC (Roberto Grosso) and  Nuova Pulichimica (Gaetano Maluberti).

Recipients of the prestigious Best Member award for the two years 2019-2020 were the companies: Diversey (Simone Coccato), Ghibli & Wirbel (Luca Pedrotti), IPC (Mario Scarpa  and Alessandro Panico) and SIL Advanced (Gianni Tartari).

The many news announcements during ISSA Pulire 2021 included the new service ‘Legaltech and Cybersecurity’ which was created in cooperation with Studio Legale Salmi to offer data protection consultancy to members.

It was also reported how the association has shown its commitment in recent years to build and reinforce relationships with the institutions and the academic world, creating a virtuous circle in the cleaning sector. The exhibition in Verona was also an opportunity to present the advanced training course Corso di Alta Formazione in Cleaning Management (started with the Management School of Università degli Studi of Bergamo) and to highlight works on topics of great interest to professionals in the sector.

Among the subjects being discussed in greater depth was the topic of the new CAMs, in force since June, with the participation of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the Region of Veneto & the Municipality of Padua, and also with the contribution of Paolo Fabbri from Punto3 detailing the actual field of activity and announcing some important changes which will be brought in by the awaited amending decree.

Finally Marco Belardi, consultant to the Ministry of Economic Development for Transition 4.0, held a training session on the incentives within Transition Plan 4.0 and answered many questions from attendees. Together with Afidamp he is developing a position paper which will be a support tool for members.

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