SACE and Open-es join forces to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of italian companies
SACE and Eni have announced a strategic partnership to enhance synergies through the Open-es alliance, aiming to support Italian companies—especially SMEs—in combining sustainability with competitiveness. This collaboration will integrate the Open-es and SACE ESG Hub platforms.
The partnership reflects SACE’s commitment to assisting Italian SMEs in transitioning to sustainable business models, a critical process for long-term success. To support this transformation, SACE recently launched the SACE ESG Hub, an ecosystem of services designed to guide SMEs toward sustainability.
As a Strategic ESG Partner, SACE strengthens the institutional foundation and national leadership of the Open-es alliance, which promotes collaboration across key Italian business associations and institutions. Established in 2021, Open-es now includes over 25,000 companies and more than 40 partners from various sectors, providing a digital platform to support companies on their sustainability journeys.
Through the integration of Open-es and the SACE ESG Hub, the partnership will offer companies accessible tools to measure and improve their ESG performance, combining growth, competitiveness, and sustainability within the Italian business landscape.
"We are working to create an environment that fosters business growth through innovation, digitalisation and sustainability. The collaboration between SACE and Eni within the Open-es alliance is an important step in this direction and confirms our ongoing commitment to supporting businesses," said Antonio Frezza, Chief Marketing & Communications, Sales SMEs & Property Management Solutions at SACE. "Our initiatives promote the ‘twin transition’, a fair digital and sustainable transformation - supporting businesses in building a long-term, successful strategy to compete in global markets. Our focus is particularly on SMEs and the 11 strategic sectors for the Italian economy. For them and for the twin transition, we have developed the SACE ESG Hub - a continuously evolving digital ecosystem that integrates all SACE tools, from insurance and financial solutions to SACE Connects and SACE Education support services, which include business matching initiatives and customised training programmes."
"This agreement with SACE further strengthens our partnership for sustainable business development, prioritising the competitiveness of supply chains," added Costantino Chessa, Head of Procurement at Eni. "By pooling the resources of institutions, major industrial players and financial and insurance groups, we can pragmatically pursue the path of transition. We are proud that the Open-es alliance has become a platform where this collaboration can be realised. SACE and Eni share a common vision of supporting SMEs, focusing on the skills needed to drive this transformation and promoting alignment within the banking sector to simplify the ESG measurement and improvement process, allowing companies to focus their efforts on concrete development and growth actions.”