{"id":75336,"date":"2022-03-23T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2022\/03\/dakar-presentato-prodotto-italiano-che-sostituisce-il-cemento\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:25:03","slug":"dakar-presentato-prodotto-italiano-che-sostituisce-il-cemento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2022\/03\/dakar-presentato-prodotto-italiano-che-sostituisce-il-cemento\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakar: presentation of an Italian product that replaces cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Italian Design Day in Senegal offered the opportunity to present the fruit of Italian ingeniousness: \u2018\u2019Monolyto\u2019\u2019, a recycled plastic structure that replaces cement bricks. Manufactured in the region of Dakar from an Italian patent registered by the developer Maddalena Martigli, \u201cMonolyto\u201d represents an eco-sustainable and innovative solution that reduces the carbon footprint thanks to a product that is lighter and more solid than traditional bricks. The presentation took part at an event that was part of the initiatives for the 6<\/span><sup style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Italian Design Day 2022 dedicated to \u201cRegeneration. Design and New Technologies for a Sustainable Development\u201d which convened more than 70 institutional and business representatives, designers, and NGOs, both Senegalese and Italian, at the Comptoir Commercial du Senegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On opening the event, the Italian Ambassador to Senegal, Giovanni Umberto De Vito, underscored the \u201cimportance of this event in Senegal, our partner and privileged friend in West Africa\u201d. He said: \u201cIt is a great honor to be able to count on the presence of members of the Italian and Senegalese Governments at this event, which highlights the creativity of our enterprises, applied to a dynamic economic sector whose potential is greatly boosted through bilateral cooperation\u201d. The event was attended, among others, by the Undersecretary for Ecological Transition, Ilaria Fontana, who is on a visit to Dakar, and by the Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Urbanization of Senegal, Abass Ndiaye.\u00a0\u201cReusing, repairing, renewing, and recycling existing materials and products is now a necessity that goes in parallel with the development of new materials, and with an ever-tighter cooperation between designers and producers,\u201d said Ilaria Fontana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Design Day in Senegal offered the opportunity to present the fruit of Italian ingeniousness: \u2018\u2019Monolyto\u2019\u2019, a recycled plastic structure that replaces cement bricks. Manufactured in the region of Dakar from an Italian patent registered by the developer Maddalena Martigli, \u201cMonolyto\u201d represents an eco-sustainable and innovative solution that reduces the carbon footprint thanks to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,35],"class_list":["post-75336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-africa","tag-diplomazia-scientifica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75337,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336\/revisions\/75337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}