Fincantieri is one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. And we bring future on board. We are the change we want to bring to the global Industry. We are leader in the realization and life cycle management of all high value-added sectors: cruise ship, naval and offshore vessels and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, ship repairs and conversions, systems and components production and after-sales services.
Headquartered in Trieste (Italy), our Group has built more than 7,000 vessels in over 230 years of maritime history. With almost 20,000 employees, of whom more than 7,800 in Italy, 90.000 job roles, 18 shipyards in 4 continents, today Fincantieri is the leading Western shipbuilder. We have among our clients the major cruise operators, the Italian and the U.S. Navy, in addition to several foreign navies, and we are partner of some of the main European defense companies within supranational programmes.
Alcantara is the Made in Italy leading Company that globally produces and markets the unparalleled material under the registered trademark Alcantara®.
Thanks to its unique characteristics, Alcantara is now the lifestyle partner of leading luxury brands operating across the world in various industry sectors such as: design, art, fashion, consumer electronics and the automotive world.
These partners choose Alcantara to go beyond the traditional limits of creations and to explore its extreme customization.
Sustainability is another important value for Alcantara: in 2009, the Company obtained the much-coveted Carbon Neutrality certification from one of the strictest and most rigorous international certification institution (TÜV SÜD). Carbon Neutrality certification is based on offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions through Certified and Verified Offsetting Projects. Since then, Alcantara has fostered a deep and constant commitment to sustainability publishing every year since 2009 Sustainability Report publicly available online on Alcantara’s sustainability website (https://sustainabilityreport.alcantara.com/) where the Company gives an overview of what it does and what its future plans are.