Marelli, binding proposals for the Crevalcore site by the beginning of February
The industrial plans will be officially presented by the beginning of February as binding offers, then they will proceed to evaluation, based on the characteristics of the proposals, which company will be able to acquire the Crevalcore site from Marelli. The names of the two possible buyers, previously anticipated by Il Sole 24 Ore in December, have been confirmed by Mimit. These are the Novara-based company Tecnomeccanica, active in the die-cast aluminum sector – the same sector in which the Crevalcore hub operates – and the multinational Niche Fusina, born from the industrial relaunch of the former Alcoa and currently owned by the Dada Group. In the first case, the potential investment would be 25 million euros, involving overall 150 employees.
Tecnomeccanica, with 170 employees in its two factories in Piedmont, operates in the die casting sector with processes intended for the automotive sector. Already a supplier of Marelli, it intends to continue to supply Tier 1, guaranteeing the continuity of production in Crevalcore, where it intends to install a new furnace, adding to the two already present, and new machinery for die-cast aluminum processing. Niche Fusina has three factories in the UK, in France and the Veneto, with 500 employees, of which 200 on the site near Venice where there is a rolling mill.
In Crevalcore, the company intends to continue the current processes, but with the aim of installing a new rolling mill smaller in size than that of the Venetian hub, with new connected processes. The expected investment varies between 12 and 15 million euros, involving approximately 150 workers. Vincenzo Colla, councilor of Seconomic development and employment of Emilia-Romagna, underlined: «We are talking about two companies that operate in the aluminum processing sector, two companies that have reputation, history but above all a concrete industrial manufacturing project.” This emerged during the meeting in Rome with representatives of Marelli, the undersecretary Fausta Bergamotto, local authorities and Confindustria Emilia Centro. Stefano Boschini of the national secretariat of the FIM added: «During yesterday's meeting we also started examining the tools available to protect all Crevalcore employees, 228 in total, for whom transfers are envisaged, on a voluntary basis, or routes of job placement”.
The interested companies undertake to present the industrial plans to the social partners by mid-February, and the agreement is expected to be concluded by the beginning of March. A new meeting has already been scheduled at Mimit on the 15th with trade unions and the Emilia-Romagna Region, which will represent the fifth meeting after the announcement of the closure of the Bolognese site, which came as a surprise last September 19th from the Japanese Calsonic Kansei (controlled by American fund KKR), which had acquired the factory from the Stellantis group in 2018.
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