Certainly the tradition and experience gained over such a long period of time and the adversities that inexorably history has placed and continues to place before us have contributed to making Franzosini what it is today: a historic reality in Ticino that, strong in its corporate heritage, wants to continue to grow by elevating its values and transforming them into added value for the customer. The path to this growth is already in Franzosini’s know-how; the ways to achieve it are very clear to the management staff.

The commendable achievement of achieving ISO14001 certification among the first logistics companies in Ticino, the choice of suppliers who share its same values of respect for the environment and constant process improvement, and the choice of modern and efficient means of transportation. These were among the first major impactful pieces that the company wanted to fit solidly into the big puzzle of the ongoing ecological transition.

The achievement of certification was also made possible by the choice of innovative new modes of transportation capable of minimizing the number of annual CO2 emissions as well as distances: intermodal transport on the one hand and the traveling highway on the other.

The first involves loading the semi-trailer at departure onto a flat car of a freight train to the destination rail hub. The semi-trailer after being unloaded from the convoy is towed by an existing vehicle to its final destination. A single freight train with dozens and dozens of semi-trailers on board that drastically reduces transportation emissions and reflexively decongests roads and highways: smoother traffic allows for reduced emissions and fuel consumption for motorists, making us once again reflect on how the impact of a single business strategy can improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

The latter, compared to the normal unaccompanied intermodal service (in fact, only the semi-trailer, swap body or container is loaded on the train, without the tractor), thus allows the transport to continue immediately once the train arrives at the terminal without the need to have an owned or rented tractor on site to reach the final destination. The versatility of having the driver with the vehicle directly on site allows for faster vehicle management and meeting delivery times previously prearranged with customers.

Franzosini, however, is not alone in this ambitious transition: it is embedded in a group, Tepoorten Group SA, which boasts EZDatacenter SA, its technology branch, at its core.

That Customs clearance and transportation rhyme with a lot of documentation, and therefore a lot of paper, is certainly not something to be surprised about: here’s where EZDatacenter SA rushes to the aid of Franzosini (and a great many – more than 4000 – other businesses in Ticino, Switzerland and beyond) with an innovative, inexpensive and very easy-to-use system that… eliminates paper! In fact, EZDatacenter SA makes customs documentation 100% paperless, storing in an easy-to-use and very intuitive portal all documents related to customs clearance, moreover in a totally automatic way.

Internally as well, Franzosini has always valued the environment and respect for it, with shrewd choices that start with small but fundamental gestures such as recycling coffee capsules, eliminating plastic bottles in the multiple locations and branches, resulting in the inclusion of practical, reusable glass bottles in each employee’s company equipment.

The constant focus on increasingly eco-sustainable work environments and compliance with the strict ISO14001 paradigms is guaranteed by the continuous supervision of managers assisted by the Quality Department, pursuing to the best of their ability the search for optimizations of existing processes as well as available to customers who wish to have precise tracking of Franzosini’s environmental impact.

The meticulous attention protracted by Franzosini toward the environment in fact, by reflex, reaches our customers, who can thus see a reality concretely committed to the most responsible management of transport.

Process efficiencies, compliance with regulations and the constant search for technological innovations are the driving force behind Franzosini, which makes use of modern tech solutions from other holding companies to continue its rich history, to be competitive in the race in which it participates, feeling, still as almost 100 years ago, closer to the start than to the finish line, since the innovations that can make it even more committed to its ecological transition are yet to be discovered!