In 1921 the industrialist Modesto Boschi, in answer to the pleas of the people of Colle, devastated by the lack of work, rented the Fabbrichina and re-opened the furnaces.
The following year, Boschi took over the S.A.L.V.E. factory.
Under his direction the activity of the two Colle firms took off with such impetus that the industrialist bought the Fabbrichina, which he had previously rented.
Modesto Boschi admitted three workers to the Board of Directors and gave permission for the establishment of an inside Commission which included five workers: and so the Modesto Boschi United Workers Glassworks was born.
In 1928 the Florentine factory in Via Alamanni joined the group.

Until fairly recently glass objects were wrapped in straw which protected the finished product perfectly from damage during transport. At the time of the Schmid Crystal and Glassware Factory, there was a special department where the "Straw-workers", in other words the women who packed the glass articles, wrapping them in straw, operated. In those days this department was next to the melting furnace on one side and the warehouse on the other.

Straw-workers.

Unlike in other European countries, there was not much work for women in Italian glassworks.
Apart from straw-work in the traditional sense, this being the covering of articles made from green glass, which was usually carried out by women, they also packed goods and were assigned certain tasks in the secondary processing department, such as grinding, cleaning and decoration.