Ivrea. The router company plants 1000 trees

Tiesse has many actions in place to reduce the environmental impact

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Tiesse plants trees. A way like any other to restore the environmental balance. And the Tiesse company, which has always been involved in innovation and technology, does so, giving life to a forest, planting a thousand deciduous trees from certified nurseries in Calitri, Irpinia. The slogan of the project is suggestive: trees are nature’s first technology. And something must be given back to nature in order to calibrate the weight of each of us on planet earth. In Calitri, the wood is made up of 250 locust trees, 235 holm oaks, 150 tamarisks, 100 ash trees, 98 alders, 82 hornbeams, 50 lime trees and 35 maples. The Calitri wood is not intended to be an isolated case.

“We are ready to give life to a wood in Canavese too – says Ombretta Miraglio, marketing manager of the Ivrea company, – and to listen to proposals on this issue from the territory”.

Planting new trees is not Tiesse’s only front of action, if anything, it is the last in an exclusively temporal order. “For years – explains Luciano Lucrezia, Tiesse technical director – we have only used cardboard boxes with recycled material and we aim for plastic-free packaging”. That said, it sounds simple, but it’s not. For some time, Tiesse has focused on using particular materials to make printed circuits such as lead-free soldering. Another issue concerns the components used, but on this point we need to take a step back.

Tiesse designs routers and network and connectivity devices linked to the internet of things, a sector in continuous development. He believed in the made in Italy of these products even in the years when the watchword was outsourcing. After all, in Tiesse you can breathe the air of Olivetti, where the founders and managers of the company that focuses on innovation worked. By resisting and believing in its goal, it has carved out an important space for itself, collaborating with big names and supplying important multinationals. The urge to improve more and more on the environmental policy front is common. Today Tiesse has four offices. In addition to Ivrea, where the head and heart of the company are, we have Turin, Rome and Avezzano.

Lucrezia proudly specifies the Tiesse supply chain for the supply of components. There is a market for so-called bloody materials, which come from areas of the world or are processed under conditions of exploitation. And Lucrezia specifies: «Ours is an ethical supply chain. We select the components and guarantee their traceability ».

Electronic equipment, however, has an environmental impact, but it is unthinkable to do without it. Hence the calculation for the birth of the forest: one tree for every fifty devices and therefore a thousand trees for 5 thousand electronic devices.

In autumn 2020, this new 1000 trees in Italy project started because trees are the first technology that nature has made available to combat and slow down climate change. The project is divided into three areas in which various broad-leaved species are planted. Tiesse made use of agronomists and botanists who ensure correct planting, maintenance and conservation over time.