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ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY

We produce ingredients for Gelato and Pastry shops






Mec3 follows the “Corporate Social Responsibility”
to integrate the ethical concepts, equity and respect with those of profit and business strategies, certain that a socially responsible behavior is an investment capable of making the business competitive and solid in the long-term.

For Mec3 being socially responsible signifies:
to assume the responsibility of the impact that the  company’s activities may generate   in  the surrounding  environment ,and considers  its strategies  and  behavior in  the  interest  of the community , internally  and externally to the reality of the company and what its achievement may have at an economic, social and environmental  level .

Mec3 produces quality ingredients for the gelato shop and artisan pastry making by following the ethical method taking four different routes.

Environment
Mec3 supports the environment by investing in clean energy and has installed a brand new system of solar panels to produce electricity.
Installing a new system of solar panels Mec3 has contributed in reducing the emission into the atmosphere of 45.9 tons of CO2 a year.    

Medical Research

Mec 3 and the association ABO: are together for scientific research against cancer.
ABO, the scientific network born with the task of sustaining and guiding targeted research against cancer. For mec3 this commitment is of vital importance: this is why we give our support and contribution in financing a specific project: the research in the identification of prognostic biomarkers of breast cancer, useful for early diagnosis and for the formulation of personalized therapy for the cure of breast cancer.

Scientific Research.
Mec3 supports projects within prestigious Italian university structures.
Polytechnic of Milan- Design Polytechnic
Mec3 supports and sponsors the Academy of the IV course “Food Experience” in “Design for the innovation in Food Retail: Gelato shops, Bakeries and cake shops “of the Polytechnic of Milan.

Bologna University Alma Mater Studiorum
Financing of the University Research project for the “study of new ingredients to improve the nutritional value of confectionary products” within the department of Sciences of nutrition at the University center of Bologna.

University Scholarships
Mec3 with the local public administration funds 10 scholarships for rewarding the deserving university students of Morciano di Romagna city.

Social Activities 
Project “Adopt a Gelato maker”
Mec3 has joined DOKITA, an international voluntary association, and supporter of the charitable project “Adopt a gelato maker”: a project of rehabilitation for youngsters in difficulty in Bangalore, India, to introduce them into the world of employment through the management of a laboratory and the sales point of artisan Gelato. You too can contribute by purchasing the T-shirt that commemorates   Mec3’s 25th anniversary; the profit will be donated entirely to the charitable project.

Treat well the land we live in
It was not donated by our fathers,
But it is borrowed from our children
(Masai proverb)