Press releases

2018-02-08 Nuova_Palazzina_1_870x.1533219586.jpg Based in Pescara, the company operates in gas and electricity sales, with roughly 17,000 customers in the Marche and Abruzzo regions, to be added to the 225,000 already served in these areas. Local roots confirmed with new services and offers. Hera S.p.A. Only a few weeks after the approval of the Business Plan to 2021, the Hera Group is continuing to enlarge its energy customer base and its presence in the Marche and Abruzzo regions. Through subsidiary Hera Comm Marche it has brought to conclusion today the acquisition from Ranton S.r.l. of 100% of Blu Ranton S.r.l., a company operating in free market gas and electricity sales. Established in 2003 with legal headquarters in Pescara, Blu Ranton has roughly 15,000 gas customers and 2,000 electricity customers, primarily distributed across the provinces of Macerata, Teramo and Pescara. With this operation, that follows up on the acquisitions of Fucino Gas, Alento Gas, Julia Servizi and Gran Sasso,in addition to Verducci Servizi and Enerpeligna, concluded in 2017, the Hera Group has further consolidated its presence in the two regions, where it already provides electricity and gas services to over 225,000 customers. The multi-utility is thus proceeding with developing a model that integrates on the one hand the regional presence, in a physical sense as well, typical of local businesses, and on the other the innovative potentialities in services and offers and the competitiveness that both come from belonging to a Group that is among the main operators in the Italian energy market. "Our presence in local areas is becoming increasingly extensive", explains Cristian Fabbri, CEO of Hera Comm. "This is due to our solid and at the same time flexible business model, which allows us to perfectly integrate locally managed services for citizens with a global vision that guarantees greater opportunities and offers. This system lets us meet all of our customers' needs, from daily assistance to services increasingly tailored to fit specific requests, improving, day after day, customer experience. We are sure that these new customers as well will show their appreciation for all the possibilities we will soon make available to them". Hera S.p.A. 08022018_press_release_hera_acquires_blu_ranton.1518082699.pdf 2017-06-23 10:06:00 Hera S.p.A. Read more Hera S.p.A.

2018-02-02 Nuova_Palazzina_870x.1533218220.jpg List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% Update Before N. of shares in the total share capital N. of voting rights N. of shares in the total share capital N. of voting rights Total amount with a breakdown as follows: 1,489,538,745 2,273,401,461 1,489,538,745 2,273,701,461 Shares (regular: 01.01.2017) - cod. ISIN IT0001250932 coupon: n. 16 705,676,029 705,676,029 705,376,029 705,376,029 Double voting right shares (regular: 01.01.2017) - cod. ISIN IT0001250932 coupon: n. 16 783,862,716 1,567,725,432 784,162,716 1,568,325,432 List of shareholders with a stake of over 3% 2_feb_2018_ENG_comunicato_voto_maggiorato.1517587235.pdf 2017-06-23 12:26:59 110x150_heraspa.1475082913.jpg List of shareholders with a stake of over 3%

2018-01-29 Tomaso_Tommasi_di_Vignano.1509632134.1534410649.jpg After Ravenna, Imola, Modena, Udine and Pisa, the travelling exhibition of Hera Group comes to the city tomorrow, to coincide with Arte Fiera. Until 18 February, works made out of waste by young artists can be viewed free of charge at Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande. On Saturday at 6 pm, a performance by Angela Nocentini. /documents/1514726/4186020/Cartolina_SCART.1516183080.pdf/de76e2d5-80c7-3572-98e9-bf9c2992830a?t=1596720613147 Leaftlet Scart in Bologna sinistra "We are very proud of the collaborations with the Fine Art Academies of Bologna and Florence - stated Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano, Executive President of Hera Group - as they have enabled us to take this exhibition on tour around different regions over the past months, helping us to spread an important message. The artistic regeneration of waste materials - continues Tommasi - actually inspires all the other regenerations on which the circular economy is based and for which the Group works every day through people, resources, processes and plants. By taking part in the Arte Fiera circuit - the President of Hera concludes - we want to give even more emphasis to the themes and ideas of this exhibition, which besides being about waste and art is above all about "second lives", which is what new development models, based on recycling materials and resources, should help us to think about and achieve, in the interests of everyone." Scart 20180129_Con_Scart_anche_a_Bologna_i_rifiuti_diventano_arte.1516971547_ing.1533804894.pdf 2018-01-29 sinistra 15:40:21 Scart Read more

2018-01-23 sede_Gruppo_Hera_4505_1516717240_1532967068.1533219811.jpg The loan is destined to support investments in the environment area, with the aim of introducing innovative projects to help further increase the percentage of sorted waste and the efficiency of treatment and recovery plants. Sede Hera http://ha.gruppohera.it Herambiente The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Hera Group have finalised a € 110 million financing contract intended to support the 2017-2021 development program of this Italian multi-utility, listed on the Milan stock exchange. Through this loan, the European bank chose in particular to finance 19 projects involved in the waste cycle that are in line with EU directives and foresee interventions in various regions of Italy. 50% of the cost of these projects, coming in turn to roughly € 227 million, will thus be covered by financing from the EIB. More specifically, the line of credit will be destined to further improvements in the performance of Hera's waste management services, above all by increasing the amount of sorted waste, as indicated in the regional objectives set out by the areas serves, but also by Herambiente, the Hera Group company that is a nationwide leader in waste treatment, recycling and recovery. The Group aims at increasing the efficiency of its own processes to a greater extent, and improving the sustainability standards of its set of plants, whose emissions are, moreover, already far below the limits set by law. With this financing, which falls within EIB policies, new resources will therefore be made available in the transition towards the model of a circular economy, a transition to which Hera has long contributed, as is shown by its entry as part of the CE100, the program promoted by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation that brings together the 100 most active figures in this field worldwide. An additional positive element, furthermore, lies in the satellite activities and the consequences in employment which, over the period in which the Hera Group's multi-year investment plan is put into effect, are believed to help reinforce growth in the economies of the areas concerned. The operation provides the Hera Group with an important contribution to the consolidation of its own financial structure and follows up on the collaboration set into place over time between the EIB and the Group: four other operations (concerning investments in waste management and networks) have in fact been signed by the EIB and Hera in recent years, amounting to over € 700 million. Sede Hera 20180123_financing_EIB.1516712635.pdf 2018-01-16 14:28:00 Sede Hera Read more Sede Hera

2018-01-16 hera_bioon870_1516176236.1533219940.jpg Clean energy for Bio-on's new biopolymers 'factory' thanks to a trigeneration plant built by Gruppo Hera http://hse.gruppohera.it/ Hera Servizi Energia 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. Hera Group press_release_bio_on.1516091129.pdf 2019-07-02 centrata 08:00:00 Hera Group Read more Clean energy for Bio-on's new biopolymers 'factory' thanks to a trigeneration plant built by Gruppo Hera