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19/06/2024

Online since 15-05-2024 at 10:38

Hera Group acquires Soelia’s gas network

Through its subsidiary Inrete Distribuzione Energia, the Group was awarded the tender for the gas distribution plants and network serving the municipality of Argenta in Ferrara area

Hera Group BoD approves results for 1Q 2024

The consolidated quarterly report at 31 March shows improvement in the main operating and financial indicators. The Group’s financial solidity and commitment to sustainability and the ecological transition were confirmed, along with the creation of value for all stakeholders and significant investments in the areas served to improve our assets resilience and to guarantee service quality and continuity

Online since 14-05-2024 at 12:41

30/04/2024

Online since 29-04-2024 at 12:53

Hera Shareholders Meeting: 2023 financial statements approved and dividend increased to 14 cents

The Group continues along its path of uninterrupted growth, closing 2023 with record performance in the main operating and financial indicators, thus constantly creating value for its stakeholders.

23/04/2024

Hera Group at the top of ARERA’s water service quality ranking

The multiutility confirms itself among Italy’s most outstanding operators, securing the first and third positions, with reference to all macro-indicators, as proof of the very high standards adopted by the Group in this field. A commitment that the Hera fulfils with significant investments to ensure the highest quality and continuity of service to around 3.6 million citizens and an increasingly efficient and circular use of resources. Important results have been achieved, particularly in Emilia-Romagna.

08/04/2024

Publication of the Draft Separate and Consolidated Financial Statements as of 31.12.2023, the Sustainability Report - Consolidated Non-Financial Statement, the Corporate Governance Report, and the Report on Remuneration and Compensation Paid

29/03/2024

Thanks to investments totalling approximately 50 million euro, the Hera Group will build a state-of-the-art facility within its own plant complex. Starting from plastic waste that has so far been difficult to recycle, it will produce high quality polymers with characteristics similar to those shown by virgin materials, thus making sectors such as consumer electronics and the automotive industry increasingly sustainable

Rigid plastics recycling: one of Europe’s most innovative plants to be built in Modena

27/03/2024

The year closed with main financial indicators rising and the targets included in the strategic Plan to 2026 exceeded three years ahead of schedule. The Group’s financial solidity and flexibility allowed it to continue along its path of industrial growth, increasing its investments and successfully grasping market opportunities, both internal and external, while continuing to generate value benefitting all stakeholders. The proposed dividend was raised, reaching 14 eurocents per share

Publication of documents pertaining to the Shareholders Meeting to be held on 30 April 2024

Hera Group approves results as at 31/12/2023

Online since 26-03-2024 at 12:47

11/03/2024

Sustainability, decarbonisation, liveability and biodiversity protection are the keywords of this project, which will be developed in the northern part of the city and will contain a new urban park with facilities, complemented by areas dedicated to protecting animal and plant species, and an agrivoltaic field that will allow an annual saving of 6,000 tons of CO2.

Green energy and a new urban forest: the Hera Group’s Energy Park arrives in Bologna

04/03/2024

The passing of Hera S.p.A.'s Vice Chairman, Mr. Gabriele Giacobazzi

We hereby inform you that on March 3, 2024, the Vice Chaiman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Gabriele Giacobazzi, passed away.

13/02/2024

The Group achieved the leadership band in the CDP questionnaire and was included among “TOP 1%” Multi and Water Utilities of the S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook 2024. These recognitions prove Hera’s commitment to sustainable development and creating shared value for local areas.

Hera Group among Europe’s leaders in sustainability and the fight against climate change

06/02/2024

With the 7 lots awarded in the tender for the Gradual Protection Service for non-vulnerable household customers, the Hera Group consolidates its position as the sector’s third largest operator in Italy.

Hera Group: over 1 million new electricity customers as of 1 July

Hera Group expands in the industrial waste sector with TRS Ecology

With the acquisition of 70% of the Piacenza-based company, the Group reinforces its leadership in the waste management sector. This transaction, at full capacity, is expected to contribute to growth in the Hera Group’s Ebitda with approximately 6 million euro.

Hera Group presents Business Plan to 2027

Development, resilience and creating shared value for stakeholders are at the heart of the Group’s new strategic document, which foresees investments totalling 4.4 billion to speed up the ecological transition and enhance asset resilience to climate change. The preliminary results for 2023 outperform the previous Plan’s goals that have been achieved three years ahead of schedule, thanks to the numerous development actions implemented and the Group’s ability to grasp market opportunities.

Online since 24-01-2024 at 12:02

22/01/2024

Online since 22-01-2024 at 13:24

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18/01/2024

The company reaffirms, once again in 2024, its position among the best performers in human resources management, thanks to substantial investments in welfare, training, and skill development.

Hera Top Employer for the 15th Consecutive Year

02/01/2024

A further confirmation of the importance of Hera’s achievements in terms of gender equality and inclusion

Hera Group has obtained the “Gender equality certification”

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16/01/2018

Clean energy for Bio-on's new biopolymers "factory" thanks to a trigeneration plant built by Gruppo Hera

Bio-on, the leader in eco-sustainable chemical technologies, and Gruppo Hera, one of Italy's main multi-utility providers, have reached an agreement for the supply of clean energy thanks to the realisation and management of a new technological-energy hub that will house a newly designed trigeneration plant. The deal was signed by Bio-on S.p.A. with Hera Servizi Energia, a subsidiary of Gruppo HERA, and will guarantee clean electric energy for the new plant producing innovative biopolymersthat Bio-on is currently constructing in Castel San Pietro Terme, outside Bologna.

The plant, due to open by the middle of 2018 and begin PHAs bioplastic production thanks to a 15 million Euro investment, will employ approximately 40 people.The plant will occupy an area of 30,000 m², 3,700 of which is covered and 6,000 land for development, and will have a production capacity of 1,000 tons per year expandable to 2,000. It will be equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and the most advanced research laboratories, where Bio-on will test and develop new types of PHAs bioplastic using agricultural and agro-industrial waste as raw material. Bio-on also demonstrates its focus on environmental sustainability in its choice of site, opting to convert a former factory, meaning no new land is wasted.

Through the agreement, Gruppo Hera will supply Bio-on's new plant with a) Power produced and self-consumed, b) Heating in the form of steam, and c) Cooling. The multiannual agreement includes the realisation and maintenance of the entire technological-energy hub associated with the supply of energy, for a total investment from Hera Servizi Energia of 2.4 million Euro.

Hera Servizi Energia is the landmark ESCO in Gruppo Hera's industrial sector, which over the years has developed a portfolio of cogeneration plants built with the best technologies on the market, able to guarantee major energy and economic savings.

The project developed for Bio-on envisages the realisation of the entire technological-energy hub comprising a 1 MW trigeneration power plant, two steam boilers, two high-efficiency industrial coolers and a modern water treatment plant. The energy saving generated is over 800 TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) per year, equivalent to the amount of CO2 a 320-hectare woodland absorbs in one year or the equivalent of 810 diesel cars being taken off the roads.

"We are extremely proud of this agreement," explains Bio-on S.p.A. Chairman and CEO Marco Astorri, "because it allows us to increase and complete the industrial sustainability of our new production plant. We chose to not use agricultural land by converting a derelict plant, and with HERA we can add strong GREEN credentials in our energy usage to produce a biopolymer like MINERV PHAs that is sustainable and completely biodegradable in nature." Bio-on, a fast-growing company, fundamentally met the objectives of its business plan presented on 22 November 2016 for 2017 and looks to 2018 with major new projects, including its sustainable energy collaboration with HERA.

All the PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) developed by Bio-on are made from renewable plant sources with no competition with food supply chains. They can replace a number of conventional polymers currently made with petrochemical processes using hydrocarbons; they guarantee the same thermo-mechanical properties as conventional plastics with the advantage of being completely eco-sustainable and 100% naturally biodegradable.

The agreement between the two companies has come out of a highly dynamic territory that represents the technological cutting edge in Italy.

"For a company such as ours, which has innovation and sustainability at its foundations,"explained Giorgio Golinelli, managing director of Hera Servizi Energia, "the collaboration with Bio-on is a natural meeting of the minds and a convergence of views that we believe can be developed with an increasing number of players operating in sustainably developing the economy and the territory. With this agreement, thanks to the breadth and quality of our service offering, we can put an additional green stamp on a project that aims to change the world of eco-plastics. Hera has been at the forefront of this sector for some time, encouraging the transition towards a circular economy model that extends the life of raw materials and resources through recycling, reuse and longer-lasting products."

Gruppo Hera

It is one of Italy's largest multi-utility providers working in Environment (waste collection and treatment), Energy (electricity and gas distribution and sale) and Water (waterworks, sewers and purification). The Group employs over 9,000 people and works every day to meet the many and varied needs of over 4.4 million citizens. It serves over 350 local municipalities mainly in the Emilia Romagna, Marche, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions.

Bio-on S.p.A.

Bio-On S.p.A., an Italian Intellectual Property Company (IPC), operates in the bioplastic sector conducting applied research and development of modern bio-fermentation technologies in the field of eco-sustainable and completely naturally biodegradable materials. In particular, Bio-On develops industrial applications through the creation of product characterisations, components and plastic items. Since February 2015, Bio-On S.p.A. has also been operating in the development of natural and sustainable chemicals for the future. Bio-On has developed an exclusive process for the production of a family of polymers called PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) from agricultural waste (including molasses and sugar cane and sugar beet syrups). The bioplastic produced in this way is able to replace the main families of conventional plastics in terms of performance, thermo-mechanical properties and versatility. Bio-On PHAs is a bioplastic that can be classified as 100% natural and completely biodegradable: this has been certified by Vincotte and by USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). the Issuer's strategy envisages the marketing of licenses for PHAs production and related ancillary services, the development of R&D (also through new collaborations with universities, research centres and industrial partners), as well as the realisation of industrial plants designed by Bio-On.

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06/04/2017

2017-04-06 riunione.1501227958.jpg Publication of documents related to the AGM of 27 April 2017 Hera informs that documents listed below, related to the 27 April 2017 AGM, are available at the Company's headquarter, on line (www.gruppohera.it) and on the authorized archive system 1 Info www.1info.it. Lists of candidates for the office of member of the Board of Directors Lists of candidates for the office of Company Auditors Press_release_Hera_AGM.1491408311.pdf 2017-04-05 15:01:00 Publication of documents related to the AGM of 27 April 2017

Publication of documents related to the AGM of 27 April 2017

05/04/2017

2017-04-05 Publication of consolidated and separated financial results as at 31/12/2016 Hera informs that consolidated and separated financial results as at 31/12/2016, approved by the B.o.D. are available at the Company's headquarter, on line www.gruppohera.it and on the authorized archive system 1 Info www.1info.it. Also available the report on item 2 of the AGM (ordinary part). avviso_pubblicazione_e_stoccagio_bilancio_ENG.1491317653.pdf 2017-04-04 15:38:00 Hera Spa

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Publication of consolidated and separated financial results as at 31/12/2016

03/04/2017

2017-04-03 870_Aliplast.1501171633.jpg Herambiente's purchase of the first 40% of shares of the Treviso-based company, a national leader in plastic recycling, was completed today. A further 40% will be purchased within March 2018 and the remaining 20% within June 2022. Hera Group: first step in Aliplast acquisition completed http://ha.gruppohera.it/ Herambiente The acquisition by Herambiente, a Hera Group company and national leader in waste treatment and recovery, of 40% of shares in Aliplast, a widely recognised protagonist in the sector of plastic waste collection and subsequent regeneration, was brought to completion in Bologna today. A further 40% of the company's shares will be acquired within March 2018, and the remaining 20% within June 2022. The overall amount involved in purchasing 40% of Aliplast comes to roughly € 35.4 million, to which one must add a further € 1.2 million for receiving, in 2014, a contribution as an energy consuming enterprise. The purchase was carried out using the Group's own resources. This important operation, complementary to the ones involving Waste Recycling (Castelfranco di Sotto, Pisa) and the environmental assets of Geo Nova (Treviso) in late 2015, as well the more recent acquisition of Teseco (Pisa) plants, is part of the path towards enlarging the Hera Group's consolidated scope, pursued as of some years, and is in line with the Group's strategy of geographical expansion and integration. Thanks to the acquisition of Aliplast, alongside the recent announcement of the beginning of works on the first biomethane production plant, in the area surrounding Bologna, the Hera Group has consolidated its position as a leader in furthering the principles of a circular economy, in which waste is transformed into resources. Suffice it to recall that even in 2016, without the contribution coming from these plants, Hera recycled 64% of packaging products, compared to the 65% set as an objective for 2025, and recovered over 94% of sorted waste. Established in 1982 by Roberto Alibardi and based in Ospedaletto di Istrana (Treviso), Aliplast is a national leader in plastic industrial waste collection and regenerated polymer recycling and producing, with over 80,000 tonnes of plastic materials recycled every year. It was the first enterprise in Italy to fully integrate the entire life cycle of plastic, from environmental services in managing and collecting industrial residues and packaging to production and market sales of manufactured goods and packaging materials, produced with plastic recycled by the company itself. Over 300 employees work in Aliplast's five plants in Italy and three abroad (Spain, France and Poland). "We are very satisfied with this signing - states Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano, Executive Chairman of the Hera Group - which represents an important step towards the complete acquisition of Aliplast. With this operation, we have given new momentum to our long-standing commitment to a circular economy, giving full value to a company that was a pioneer in Italy, offering many lessons and acting ahead of its time. The future - Tommasi continues - must be shaped by bringing to fruition the most outstanding experiences in our own tradition. This will contribute to further growth and allow us to continue overcoming, together, to the benefit of the Group and the areas served, the challenges in sustainability and innovation that await us." "Today is an important day for Aliplast - adds Roberto Alibardi, Administrator and principal shareholder of Aliplast. Now that we have concretely become part of the Hera Group, a new era has indeed opened up, in which the know-how developed by Aliplast will be given further value and expanded, working in the interests of our present and future clients. We will continue working within the company, therefore, to favour the process of integration and formulate the type of managerial contribution that is most appropriate in pursuing the industrial objectives we share with our new partner, together with whom we are eager to achieve new goals." Hera Group: first step in Aliplast acquisition completed 03.04.2017_press_release_first_step_in_aliplast_acquisition_completed.1491298540.pdf 2016-04-05 13:12:00 Hera Group: first step in Aliplast acquisition completed

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Hera Group: first step in Aliplast acquisition completed

28/03/2017