SETE is made using PET coming from the recycle of these water bottles and the production was carried out following a moulding method patented at European level (EP3747316 “injection process for the production of PET and rPET articles”). Moreover, SETE is produced in a company that sources 25% of the energy used from photovoltaic panels and is injected employing electric presses capable of ensuring a 30% energy saving.
There is an eschatological value in recovering objects and granting them a second life. In the world of men and of the Gospel, all this is called conversion, redemption. On the other hand, it is precisely the Gospel that was the first to speak of recovery, recognizing the value of what men had considered of no importance:
The discarded stone has become a cornerstone
Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46
We had this clear idea, We had a patented process and the knowledge needed for work with recycled plastics… and now?
Meeting Giulio Iacchetti was a brainwave! The most important concept he conveyed to us was that the customer shouldn’t buy green products because they are made of recycled plastic, for a moral choice… the market should consume them because the articles are beautiful, functional, satisfying and so on. The fact that they are made of recycled plastic should be just a feature (with the hope that, in a few years, it will be an obvious thing).
Based in Milan, Giulio Iacchetti is an industrial designer since 1992. Among the companies he works with, Alessi, Artemide, Ceramiche Refin, Fontana Arte, Foscarini, Magis, Moleskine. He is Artistic Director of Abet Laminati and dnd Handles. Among the distinctive characteristics of his work, the research and definition of new object typologies. In May 2009 the Triennale di Milano held a solo exhibition titled “Giulio Iacchetti. Disobedient objects”. He was awarded two Compasso d’Oro (in 2001, with Moscardino, a spoon-fork for Pandora design; in 2014, with the manhole cover series Sfera for Montini).