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Included once again in the TOP 100 of the FTSE Russell (formerly Refinitiv) international index, the Group ranked 3rd in Italy and 19th globally among the 100 most inclusive and diversity-conscious companies. This comes as further recognition of the Group’s commitment to creating an inclusive and people-friendly corporate culture. sede_hera_110-2.jpg centrata For the 9th consecutive year, the Hera Group has been confirmed as one of the world’s Top 100 companies most attentive to diversity and inclusion, according to the recognition given by the FTSE Diversity and Inclusion Index, the international index designed by FTSE Russell (formerly Refinitiv). The Group ranked top multi-utility overall, 3rd among Italian companies and 19th globally in the ranking compiled on the basis of data collected by FTSE Russell at 30 June 2024. This international benchmarking company analysed more than 15,500 listed companies worldwide, which were assessed according to 24 parameters divided into four pillars: gender diversity, inclusion, people development and controversies. This further recognition confirms the Hera Group’s commitment to reducing inequalities, enhancing diversity and fostering people development in order to create an inclusive corporate culture that is attentive to the uniqueness of individuals and capable of creating broader solutions that benefit the company and all its stakeholders. Fairness and inclusion are also among the main pillars of the Good Work Deal signed in July with the trade unions. This broad, innovative and programmatic document represents a historic deal with the trade unions and provides an unprecedented instrument to companies in the sector. The new elements contained in the Agreement include a commitment to support parenting, frail persons, and caregivers, the valorisation of diverse abilities, investment in the growth and wellbeing of the Group’s people, the fight against gender-based violence and the promotion of inclusion. These results are achieved through concrete actions and by building a culture of fairness and inclusion. Since its inception, the Group has promoted initiatives aimed at gender equality along a path whose most significant milestones include the signing of the Charter for Equal Opportunities and Equality at Work, launched in Italy in 2009, the establishment in 2011 of a Diversity Management working group made up of colleagues from various company departments, the approval in 2024 by the Hera Group’s Board of Directors of the “Gender Equality Policy”, the appointment of a Guidance Committee to ensure its effective adoption and, finally, the achievement for its 11 largest companies of gender equality certification in accordance with the UNI/PdR 125:2022 reference practice.   Read the Press Release 20240924 - PR Hera ranks as world’s top multi-utility in the FTSE Diversity & Inclusion Index.pdf 2024-09-24 11:05:00 sede_hera_110-2.jpg 2024-09-24

The consolidated half-year report at 30 June indicates growth in the Group’s main operating-financial indicators and shows its considerable financial solidity, fully in line with the targets set out in the Business Plan. With the approval of its Climate Transition Plan, with a Net Zero target by 2050, Hera has once again confirmed its commitment to the sustainable development of the areas it serves, creating value for all stakeholders.

The Hera Group’s climate change mitigation strategy is now enriched with the definition of the Climate Transition Plan and the goal of reaching Net Zero by 2050 as regards direct and indirect emissions.

sede_hera_110-2.jpg centrata Hera Group finalises acquisition of TRS Ecology Through its subsidiary Herambiente Servizi Industriali, the Group has further consolidated its leadership in the waste management sector. The acquisition of 70% of Piacenza-based TRS Ecology broadens the Group’s scope of operations and strengthens the growth prospects of a well-established local company. A project to renovate the Caorso platform has already begun, aimed at additional environmental protection and increased material recovery. The closing, following January’s binding agreement A company serving the circular economy, ever closer to businesses and increasingly focused on environmental protection: this is the goal of the finalisation of the acquisition by Herambiente Servizi Industriali (a subsidiary of Herambiente, itself part of the Hera Group) of 70% of TRS Ecology, a company based in Caorso, near Piacenza, and focused on industrial waste treatment and recovery, with 70 employees and a roughly 2,700 current customers. The closing follows up on the binding agreement signed by the parties on 25 January and was made possible by the concurrence of all the conditions precedent foreseen in the preliminary phase. Claudio Dodici at the helm of TRS Ecology TRS Ecology is the newco to which TRS Ecologia (owned by the Dodici family) has transferred its business unit related to the multifunctional platform for special waste treatment located in Caorso in Piacenza area, which will be headed by Claudio Dodici as CEO. The industrial and economic rationale of the operation The merger into Herambiente rests on two main rationales. First of all, it offers TRS customers (located mainly in the provinces of Piacenza, Lodi, Cremona, Brescia and Parma) additional opportunities in the treatment and recovery of their industrial waste, which will have access to Herambiente’s network of approximately 100 plants, by far the largest in the country. TRS Ecology’s platform will also allow Herambiente Servizi Industriali to further expand the geographical scope of its services to western Emilia, lower Piedmont and Lombardy (including the Milan area), also achieving significant technical and commercial synergies with the Group’s other plant solutions and companies. 10 million invested in sustainability at the Caorso platform This new corporate structure will govern the important changes made to the Caorso platform over the upcoming months. Storage spaces will indeed be optimised and reorganised, and new treatment lines will be introduced to increase opportunities for recovery and production of secondary raw materials from incoming waste. The work should be completed by the end of 2027 and will see the use of innovative technologies aimed at further improving environmental protection and safety for workers, in line with European best practices. Ramonda: “TRS shows skills in line with our standards and the same entrepreneurial vision” “This merger creates additional value for all Herambiente’s stakeholders,” explains Andrea Ramonda, CEO of Herambiente. “On the one hand, because it allows us to broaden our scope of action, and on the other because what we have found in TRS are not only distinctive skills fully in line with our standards, but also the same entrepreneurial sensitivity, oriented towards seeing industrial waste as an essential lever for the full implementation of the circular economy.” Dodici: “joining the Hera Group marks a new beginning for TRS” “Becoming part of the Hera Group marks a new beginning for TRS, which looks above all towards development,” states Claudio Dodici, CEO of TRS Ecology. “The Hera Group’s know-how, unique in Italy, and its financial solidity, will act as true accelerators of growth, and will find their first application in the project to renovate the Caorso platform, which when fully operational will also have a significant impact on employment in the area, in terms of both spin-offs and direct hires, amounting to about 30% more than the 70 current employees.”   2024-07-30 11:11:00 sede_hera_110-2.jpg