The high standards of quality, sustainability and production underline the values of a sound and reliable company, whose products are chosen worldwide by many high-end fashion labels, which, more than any other, know how to pick out the quality and the uniqueness of a detail, the true element able to make the difference
70 years ago, in the small town of Molinella (Bologna province), the Tacchificio di Molinella developed and mass-produced the women’s heel.
From those wonderful and iconic years, the heels factory, thanks to an unceasing commitment to innovation and to the right care to the different topics over the decades, has evolved according to a mission that has always distinguished it: concreteness.
Combining the utmost technical and aesthetic result of a heel with the current needs of eco-sustainability, was the umpteenth challenge taken up with enthusiasm and rigor by the management that, in the right times and ways, selected the different technologies and solutions offered by the market, fine-tuning its “green” policy throughout 2022.
The investments aimed at energy efficiency have been many:
– The installation of a 100Kw photovoltaic system that powers the entire plant without sourcing it from the conventional network, making it electrically self-sufficient and with a very low C02 impact.
– Machinery for “full electric” transformation that combine absorption efficiency with less maintenance, disposal of used oils and consumables.
– Closed-loop control of mains water for the machinery and equipment conditioning.
– Hybrid company cars.
– A green area owned by the company that, in addition to embellishing and giving a sense of strong closeness and care towards nature, provides the plant with lots of shade and enviable oxygenation, some fresh air in these increasingly dark and gray industrial areas typical of our times.
At the same time, the heel factory has spent a lot of resources on PSV certification (Second Life Plastic); a real certification designed to guarantee the heel the utmost technical features, but which, at the same time, boosts the reduction of virgin material derived from petroleum sources, used to produce the heel. A careful selection of production waste and physiological non-functional parts that are generated during the production process, until recently considered plastic industrial waste to be disposed of, have become the added value in the current production of the heel factory. With the support of the body in charge, the production technicians have categorized, divided and purposefully re-introduced, item by item, a percentage of recycled material in the production, thus reducing the environmental impact of both the finished product and the production itself. It is a very complex process because the balance between yield and efficiency is achieved only after several tests and with a deep knowledge of the transformation process. The heel, as is well known, goes through many post-processing stages of customization and embellishment together with strict safety and quality tests. Combining everything and ensuring that it was documented by an accredited body was difficult but it is the most concrete feed that Tacchificio di Molinella could give to the important environmental protection policies in place.
For the Tacchificio di Molinella, this is not the end of a path aiming at a less polluted world and at a more eco-friendly shoe; it is a warning to offer the market concrete and cutting-edge solutions that the company intends to constantly develop.
Davide Mandreoli, General Manager