INTERVIEW
Giordano Poultry Plast keeps growing Giordano Poultry Plast, a leading international company in the moulding of plastic materials, specialised in the design and production of poultry industry equipment, is based in Caraglio (CN), Italy, with productions scattered around in Mexico, Argentina, Egypt and Malaysia. The Giordano family has full control of the group made up also by other companies operating in different sectors, with Osvaldo Giordano, Chairman, and his sons Oscar and Enrico, Chief Executive Officers. the last few months on account of the pandemic. How did Giordano Poultry Plast organise itself during the Covid-19 period, in terms of both its internal organisation and its relationship with the outside world? As regards the internal organisation, we obviously had to apply the measures laid down by the State, sometimes even at the last minute: I cannot deny that it has been tough, but we have succeeded in organising ourselves well. Precisely under these circumstances, in fact, we implemented procedures that, though ultimately envisaged, would have perhaps been applied within a few years, accelerated by the contingent situation. We have invested time and money: temperature scanners have been set up at the entrance, with separate entrances and exits, and several improvements have been introduced. Osvaldo Giordano, Chairman, with his sons Oscar and Enrico, Chief Executive Officers
Giordano Poultry Plast is an international company that exports 95% of Italian production and carries out its business in over 65 countries. For this reason, too, we spoke with Oscar Giordano, Chief Executive Officer of Giordano Poultry Plast, to discuss how the situation of companies operating in the poultry sector has unfolded itself over
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Several of our employees have been engaged in smart working since last spring and will keep on doing so. We have a fixed attendance calendar at the company, to ensure a constant alternation of personnel manning the office at all times, and enable production to operate regularly. The staff at the company premises has been retained in full. Despite the lockdown, we have not stood still even a single day: our Ateco (characteristic activity) code allowed us not to stop production, and notwithstanding
