He came from an ancient noble Venetian family, entered the Senate of the Republic of Venice at a very young age, and in 1715 was sent to the British court as an ambassador. His stay in a country which was economically advanced, especially in the industrial sector, had a decisive influence on him. He was able to visit the most up-to-date factories and this experience gradually convinced him of the need to modernise the production methods used to manufacture wool cloth in the Venetian State by following the English model. He particularly chose the town of Schio, where in 1726 he erected a factory based “on English and Dutch taste”, as the seat of his experiment. His choice of Schio was favoured by its ancient handicraft tradition and the availability of labour and energy sources. In fact, the wool mill was situated near the Roggia Maestra, in Via Sareo, later Via Pasubio, presently the area of the Jacquard Garden, and covered the north-west part as far as S. Rocco hill. The business went through a heavy crisis around the middle of the Eighteenth Century so Tron moved it to Follina, in the Treviso province, where the ancient wool tradition was flourishing. The factory in Schio, instead, was at first bought by the Rubini family and then, towards the middle of the Nineteenth Century became the property of Alessandro Rossi who turned it into the Jacquard Weaving Mill in 1862.
Tron should also be remembered for his pioneering initiatives in the agricultural sector, which were put into practice in the Vallio area, close to Anguillara near Cittadella, where he owned an estate of 1100 fields, and also in Mareno, in the Conegliano neighbourhood. This Venetian aristocrat promoted canal construction and land reclamation work, with the assistance of English engineers, in order to improve the cultivation of mulberry and fruit trees and above all vines.