In a Word: Thanks!

by Domenico Di Monte, President of Assofluid

As obvious as it may seem, I cannot help but thank all those who made the Association’s General Assembly event such a success, especially in its 50th anniversary year! A day, both in terms of the private and public events organized together with our friends at ASSIOT, which allowed us to celebrate our 50th birthday and look to the future with an extremely positive view of what is yet to come.
My thanks go to those who helped make the event possible, from Marco Ferrara, the director, to the secretary’s office to the board members. Without forgetting the same figures responsible for ASSIOT and the guests, founders, previous presidents, Federmacchine president Sandro Salmoiraghi and the vice president of the Italian industrial association, Stefan Pan, who all enriched a jam packed day with great talking points and prospects for the future.
The biggest thanks of all, however, goes to those attending the event. I am pleased to say that at the end of the working group sessions as well as at the social get together taking place during the evening, many came up to me to compliment the association on its organization and to express their heart felt intention to continue supporting it during the future growth we are all expecting. One moment in particular really sums up the mood, without referring to any one specific project: “Congratulations, today we felt the professional positivity, happiness and passion of all present, you can see the will to succeed in people’s eyes, I hope there will be many occasions like this in the future”. To me, this doesn’t only mean best wishes for the future but rather a certainty, because this is the spirit that distills the ASSOFLUID character and what the association is all about. As I repeated during the assembly, the project that will bring ASSIOT and ASSOFLUID together under one banner, an ever more important industrial group, is both the reaching of a goal and a new departure. I cannot deny that the idea the 50th birthday ASSOFLUID celebration may be the last under the current set up, left me feeling a little tense. I read the same emotions in the front row board members’ faces, but, more importantly, after the response coming from the assembly, we are all more than ever convinced that this change leading to an association reflecting the evolution in the market and across industry in general, is the right choice. To follow the path, that, thanks to the commitment of all associates, has brought us this far.