An Italian company specialised in energy sector services provides the downstream oil sector with consulting services and software since the mid-eighties. Soon they started to develop specific software tools to support their consulting activities in order to get the modeling capability required to provide high-level services to their clients. The proposed system offers all technical functions required for a proper representation of the supply chain.

The Italian company was set up in 2003 thanks to the passion for coffee of the two owners. Since then, it has been specializing in the manufacturing of roasted coffee, following the artisan method, eco-friendly practices and an accurate selection of raw materials, coming from different parts of the world, such as South America, Asia and Africa (full description in the advantages and innovations section). Company's products range includes coffee in beans and ground coffee, currently distributed mainly at national level to hotels and restaurants sector and small scale retailers.

An Italian research group has created an innovative product, a full face protective mask that adapts perfectly to the face of the user. It is used in the medical field where there may be close contact between a patient and a doctor and in areas of possible social overcrowding that, in case of a pandemic, may lead to the spread of a virus. To date, as the main means of containment and prevention of infection, are used masks made of fabric or equipped with filter that adhere to the face of the user in order to shield nose and mouth and / or filter the air inhaled and / or exhaled by the user.

An Italian association of companies, that represents over 3200 manufacturing and service SMEs and large entreprises is part of the Horizon 2020 project “NewSkin: Innovation Eco-system to Accelerate the Industrial Uptake of Advanced Surface Nano-Technologies”. The NewSkin project aims to create an Open Innovation Test Bed (OITB) to provide the European Innovation Ecosystem with the necessary technologies, resources and services to uptake a set of game-changing, efficient and cost-effective innovative processes to manufacture nano-enabled industrial and consumer products, as well as the necessar