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Covid, Marzotto vaccinates the elderly in the factory

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MAYBE many of those old people many years ago entered there every day as workers. However, everyone in Valdagno remembers the ‘city of harmony’ well, or the ‘social city’ as someone preferred to call it. Today in the historic Marzotto factory, in the town a few kilometers from Vicenza, the local socio-health unit (Ulss 8 Berica) has started vaccinating people born in 1938 and before 1929, then from Saturday until April 1st it will be the turn of the seniors of all other ‘classes’, for a total of almost 3500 people.

It is one of the first factories that, after Confindustria’s appeal to companies to collaborate with the administration campaign of the State and the thousands of adhesions, has actually started vaccinations within its own plant and, in this case, not a lot and not just for employees but for the entire community. A historic factory, built in 1924 by the family of textile industrialists active since 1836. Three thousand square meters around which between 1927 and 1937 Gaetano Marzotto junior built, based on a project by the architect Francesco Bonfanti, the ‘new Valdagno’: streets, homes, clinics, retirement homes, parks, sports facilities and summer camps, donated to the Municipality (“Perhaps the most important complex of Italian welfare works”, wrote Guido Piovene). In short, a sort of Venetian Olivetti. Utopia, in some cases realized, of the ‘social enterprise’.

The plant was made available by Marzotto Group for free use and became Punto Vaccini (with 10 clinics capable of operating in parallel) in collaboration with the Veneto Region, Ulss and Civil Protection. “We have just started vaccinations – says Maria Giuseppina Bonavina, general manager of Ulss 8 Berica – and this center will be a very precious piece in the ambitious vaccination plan we are carrying out”. “The group has always been sensitive to the needs of the communities in which it is present with its plants, communities of people who over the years have given a lot to the company, contributing to a great success story”, says the CEO of Marzotto Group, Davide Favrin. The Mayor of Valdagno, Giancarlo Acerbi, adds it is “a beautiful example of collaboration with a single purpose: that of the common good”.

In recent days, the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, had taken stock of the initiative promoted by the association of private entrepreneurs: “The companies that have joined our campaign are more than 7,000. A result that makes us proud, gives dimension of how the Italian company has made itself available to the country. We will give the commissioner, General Figliuolo, the list of companies that have voluntarily given their availability and then we will comply with the provisions that we will receive as part of the vaccination plan national”. In Valdagno we moved on to facts.

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