World youth skills day: investing in people to build the industry of tomorrow

Skills, Leadership and Corporate Culture: The OringOne Model for Empowering Young Talent

Every year on July 15, World Youth Skills Day draws attention to an issue that will shape the future of both businesses and society: preparing younger generations to succeed in an ever-evolving labour market.

Digital transformation, industrial automation, sustainability, and innovation are profoundly changing the way companies manufacture products and conduct business. In this context, skills have become the most valuable competitive asset. However, they cannot be considered permanent achievements—they must be continuously developed, updated and, above all, shared.

For highly specialised manufacturing companies, this means taking responsibility beyond simply recruiting qualified professionals. It means creating workplaces where people can grow, learn and develop their potential through daily collaboration with experienced colleagues and managers.

A Young Company Looking Towards the Future

The OringOne Sustainability Report highlights an organisation characterised by a significant presence of young professionals.

Among direct employees:

• 17 employees are under the age of 30;
• 43 are between 30 and 50 years old;
• Only 4 are over the age of 50.

This balanced workforce combines fresh perspectives with established expertise. Innovative skills complement decades of technical experience, creating an environment where knowledge transfer becomes an integral part of the company's growth.

In the production of industrial O-Rings and elastomer components for specialised applications, preserving and sharing know-how is essential to ensuring quality, operational continuity and continuous innovation.

Training Builds Skills, People Help Them Grow

In 2024, OringOne made a significant investment in the professional development of its people, delivering:

• 566 total training hours;
• An average of 7.8 training hours per employee.

Training activities included workplace safety, specialised technical training, onboarding programmes, operational mentoring and continuous professional development.

However, professional growth is not measured solely by the number of training hours completed.

Skills develop above all through the people who pass them on. For this reason, OringOne considers management a strategic pillar of its organisational model.

Experienced managers who are passionate about their work and willing to share their expertise are the true driving force behind the growth of new generations. The ability to teach, listen, mentor and support people is just as important as technical knowledge.

Indeed, knowledge transfer requires expertise, openness, collaboration and a genuine commitment to transforming individual experience into shared organisational value. Leadership based on example and mutual respect creates workplaces where every employee can learn, contribute and build a meaningful professional career.

From Joining the Company to Professional Growth

The Sustainability Report also highlights a clear strategy for talent development.

Between 2022 and 2024, between 70% and 80% of newly hired employees had previously worked for the company through temporary employment arrangements before being offered permanent positions.

This approach demonstrates the company's long-term vision, focused on recognising people's potential and creating real opportunities for professional growth.

For many young people, their first experience in the world of work becomes the beginning of a career built on training, responsibility and continuous skills development.

The O-Ring as a Symbol of Connection and Knowledge Sharing

An O-Ring is an essential component for ensuring sealing performance, reliability and operational continuity in industrial systems.

At OringOne, it also represents an effective metaphor for the company's corporate culture.

Just as an O-Ring connects different components to ensure they work together seamlessly, organisations grow through relationships, the exchange of experience and the sharing of skills.

Knowledge does not develop in isolation. It grows through collaboration across departments, dialogue between generations and the ability to transform individual expertise into collective value.

People, Innovation and Sustainability: One Shared Journey

As part of its sustainability strategy, OringOne recognises people development as one of its most important material topics.

This means recognising human capital as a strategic asset alongside technological innovation, manufacturing excellence and industrial investment.

Investing in people means building a more resilient organisation—one that can successfully embrace change while creating long-term value.

EZTRAfactory: technology empowering people

Digital transformation requires increasingly advanced skills. EZTRAfactory was created to support companies throughout this journey by integrating data, processes, technology and people into an organisational model designed to improve efficiency and drive innovation.

Technology, however, does not replace people.

On the contrary, it makes human capabilities such as critical thinking, data interpretation, collaboration, leadership and continuous learning even more valuable. For this reason, digital growth inevitably begins with the growth of people.

The integration of OringOne's manufacturing expertise with the innovative approach of EZTRAfactory demonstrates how technological innovation and skills development can successfully evolve together.

Building the future of skills every day

According to the World Economic Forum, many of the professions that will define the next decade will require skills that are still evolving today.

This is why World Youth Skills Day is much more than an annual celebration.

It is a reminder of the shared responsibility of businesses, institutions and educational organisations to create meaningful opportunities for younger generations.

At OringOne, investing in skills means investing in people. It means building a corporate culture where experience and innovation come together, knowledge is shared, and leadership is demonstrated through example, expertise and respect.

Because the future of industry will depend not only on the technologies we develop, but above all on the people we educate, inspire and empower throughout their professional journey.