Santex’s corporate fast track special award

Five start-ups have been selected and awarded by Santex Rimar Group: Illycaff̬, Santa Margherita wine producer Group, Selle Royal Group and ZCube РZambon Research.

One of the final events of Premio Gaetano Marzotto takes place in Santex Rimar Group, SMIT workshops (Italy). Premio Gaetano Marzotto is part of the activities founded by Giannino Marzotto together with Ferdinando Businaro and his daughters Cristiana, Maria Rosaria Gioia and Margherita Marzotto. The award is inspired by Gaetano Marzotto, a 20-century entrepreneur, who has been able to unite enterprise and society, culture and territory.

As Santex Rimar Group main shareholders, Giannino Marzotto’s family members are proud to pursue family effort in sustaining young entrepreneurs.

During the event, five start-ups have been selected and awarded by Santex Rimar Group, Illycaffè, Santa Margherita wine producer Group, Selle Royal Group and ZCube – Zambon Research. Ferdinando Businaro President of Santex Rimar Group, says: “There is true innovation when enthusiasm and intelligence of young startupers are combined with the experience and the vision of those who make traditional business.” Santex Rimar Group has chosen INDIGO AI, the first AI platform that uses chatbots and machine learning to automate customised experiences between companies and customers.

Stefano Gallucci, CEO, Santex Rimar Group, says: “Santex is developing 4.0 projects focused on the relationship with more than 30.000 customers located all over the world. Our new technologies will help to save energy, understanding the processes and avoiding time waste and lack of quality. We offer services that enable our customers to achieve and maintain quality production standards and implement predictive maintenance. With this startup, we can develop solutions to solve customers’ problems faster and better.

“We want machines that can assure that there is no waste, no second quality, that can prevent errors and suggest how to repair malfunctions. Machines that allow low downtime and help schedule maintenance. These machines will help solve the challenges of such a competitive textile industry” says Stefano Gallucci, CEO of Group. The final event of the 7th edition of the Premio Gaetano Marzotto will be held on November 23 in Rome.

Santex Rimar Group is one of the leading players in the world market of machine manufacturers for weaving, textile finishing, nonwovens, technical textiles and green technologies for water treatment and drying processes. As a technology partner for weaving, knitted, woven fabrics, nonwovens and green solutions the Group started as different companies that in 2015 have evolved into Santex Rimar Group: Smit is globally recognized as a forerunner in weaving technology; Cavitec and Isotex lead the technical textile machinery market; Has, Santex and Sperotto Rimar produce machinery for textile finishing; Solwa provides eco-friendly machinery for water treatment and waste management.