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Consideration of the needs and demands of stakeholders
is also important for the Group; indeed, this is one of the
most important criteria for the selection of R&D projects.
Among the principal internal stakeholders, the interaction
between sales, production, purchasing and logistics is
particularly important, while the key external stakeholders
include suppliers of raw materials, customers (especially
the utilities), distributors and certification agencies.
In both cases, bilateral communications are guided by
meetings that start by discussing the work planned for
the year and continue, at regular intervals, by monitoring
progress based on an internal procedure under which
responsibilities and timings are always clearly defined
and checked. Interests change, depending on the type of
stakeholder: sales are interested in the development of
new products and the percentage of sales attributable to
them; production seeks the optimisation of processes and
the transfer of best practices from one factory to another;
purchasing pursues the selection and qualification
of alternative, more economic and eco-sustainable
materials, while customers want innovative products and
ever more competitive solutions. A vast and complete
range of technologies is available for the production of
compounds and cables for subsequent testing: Prysmian
possesses technologies for the selection of raw materials,
compounding, film extrusion and injection moulding of
thermoplastic and cross-linkable polymers, and their use
in horizontal, catenary and vertical extrusion lines, as
well as technologies for the production of conductors,
sheathing and metallic and other protection, whether
extruded, welded or glued.
The Prysmian Group produces a vast range of electricity
and telecom cables to national, European and
international specifications. Active participation in
standardisation groups is also particularly important, so
that the environmental and social aspects can be included
in product standardisation documents, thus harmonising
the approaches taken to the sector by different countries.
The majority of actions implemented on environmental
sustainability projects involve:
• reducing the environmental impact of materials,
fluids, electricity and water used in production
processes;
• introducing innovative designs that help customers
to improve their social position in terms of
