The article highlights the importance of industrial symbiosis in the industrial ecology literature, which refers to geographically close relationships between companies in which networks and geographic proximity play a vital role. Industrial symbiosis traditionally deals with different industries in a collective approach to economic and environmental management. The research was carried out in the northeast of Italy in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, close to the Slovenian border. The Ponte Rosso was used as a case study. The empirical analysis served to highlight some critical aspects of the environmental, geographic-economic, and social factors that could hinder the development of industrial symbiosis in this regionČlanek prikazuje pomen bistvenega pojava v literaturi o industrijski ekologiji, ki označuje geografsko tesne odnose med podjetji, v katerih igrajo omrežja in geografska bližina ključno vlogo – industrijske simbioze. Ta se tradicionalno ukvarja z ločenimi panogami v skupnem pristopu poslovanja in ravnanja z okoljem. Raziskava je bila izvedena na severovzhodu Italije v Avtonomni deželi Furlaniji Julijski krajini, v neposredni bližini slovenske meje. Ponte Rosso je bil vzet kot primer, za katerega so značilne priznane okoljske, geografske, gospodarske in družbene koristi. Z empirično analizo izpostavljamo nekatere ključne vidike okoljskih, geografsko-ekonomskih in družbenih dejavnikov, ki so ovira razvoja industrijske simbioze v tej regiji
