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RATTI GROUP | SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2021

and innovation, in 2021 Ratti installed and that unique effects can be obtained that were
implemented double-printing machines. These previously impossible.
are be used to print both sides of a fabric.
The request from the market was – both for In addition, in 2021 Ratti launched a new project,
accessories and garments – for the two sides which was born out of a need to manage a
of the fabric to be as identical as possible. This component which was highly sensitive in terms
was a condition that should be satisfied from the of controlling its part of the supply chain. The
outset for high-quality accessories. Fashion brands pay a lot of attention to ensuring
that their labels and accessory materials
With this requirement as a starting point, two (tags, cards, etc.) are not removed and used in
distinct technologies were acquired to satisfy it: production by parallel, unofficial channels.
The solution adopted by Ratti consists of tailor-
1. The first technology allows simultaneous made hardware with control software.
printing of both sides of the fabric, either The system is able, by means of a network of
with the same design/variant or with video cameras, RFID antennae, NFC antennae
different designs/variants but in any case and infrared sensors, to count and record the
centred in the same square. entrance and exit of these materials in the
company and at its external partners in the
2. The second technology allows centred supply chain.
printing of the two sides of the fabric in two
separate stages, but in any case ensures the Ratti has also developed a project to introduce
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designs can also be centred on jacquard SAP software, given the need to replace the
fabrics. various corporate management systems, based
on AS400 software, with a single ERP (Enterprise
THE GUIDELINES WHICH SET THE Resource Planning) system to cover core
DIRECTION OF INNOVATION POLICY IN processes. The SAP system is already present in
RATTI AND THE DESIGN OF THE BUSINESS the areas of administration, finance and control,
MAY BE SUMMED UP IN THE WORDS and will be extended to active cycle processes,
GREEN AND DIGITAL, GREEN TRANSITION passive cycle processes, operations, logistics
AND DIGITAL TRANSITION. and quality.

The transition to SAP will enable the company
to transition to a technology that is in step with
the times, ensuring that increasingly pressing
scenarios such as traceability, sustainability
and supply chain integration can be addressed.
At the same time, system consolidation and
process standardisation will delineate a pathway
towards rationalising activities, with the objective
of maximising efficiency and reducing the time
taken to respond to customers.

In addition to this, in 2021, Ratti completed the
management by radio frequency of the Ratti
Rainbow business unit and continued with the
digitalisation of the archive.

At the same time Ratti continued its meeting
and relationship-building activities with the
The two technologies are, for the company, leading players in sericulture (silk farming), agro-
complementary. While the first technology was industrial activities that result in the production
developed mainly for a type of textile accessory of silk yarn. These activities, which include
that requires both the front and the back to mulberry/silkworm cultivation, the reeling and
be identical, the second makes it possible to spinning of silk, began mainly in China. In 2021,
obtain design effects for jacquard fabrics, for Ratti continued with its activities to acquire
accessories and also for furnishings. knowledge and support such initiatives.
In fact this second technology makes it possible
to mix yarn-dyeing and printing techniques, so Ratti’s innovation also showed itself in the way it

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