(Finance) – The Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, signed the authorization to publish the notice to express interest in the acquisition of the assets and business activities of Ilva in Extraordinary Administration (AS) and Acciaierie d’Italia in AS, as well as other companies belonging to the respective groups. These include Ilva Servizi Marittimi SpA, Ilvaform SpA, Taranto Energia Srl, Socova Sas, Adi Energia Srl, Adi Servizi Marittimi Srl, Adi Tubiforma Srl and Adi Socova Sas. The notice, signed by the extraordinary commissioners of Ilva in AS (Danovi, Di Ciommo and Savi) and by the commissioners of AdI in AS (Fiori, Quaranta and Tabarelli), – reports the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy in a note – will be published on the websites of the Acciaierie d’Italia Group and the Ilva Group in extraordinary administration in Italian and English. Expressions of interest may be sent by 20 September 2024.
Among objectives of the procedure there is the development of steel production in Italy, the implementation of environmental protection measures aimed at reducing CO2 emissions and the commitment to decarbonising production processes, in compliance with the requirements of national and European legislation. Furthermore, the protection of employment levels is envisaged, with the aim of significantly reducing the use of social safety nets, maintaining constant dialogue with the social partners.
There Transfer procedure It also aims to provide activities and forms of compensation in favour of local communities and to preserve the continuity of the business complexes of the Companies under AS, with the aim of rapidly bringing them back to maximum levels of activity.
The guidelines of the call were illustrated during the meetings with the trade unions at Palazzo Chigi, on 24 July, and in Taranto, last 26 July, in the meetings that the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, had with the local authorities, the mayor and president of the Region, parliamentarians and regional councilors, trade unions and representatives of the related companies, accepting the indications that emerged on those occasions.
Furthermore, a new invitation to express interest will be published for the acquisition of all the business complexes of Sanac in AS at the plants of Assemini (CA), Gattinara (VC), Massa (MS) and Vado Ligure (SV), understood jointly.
Among the companies, at least six, that have knocked on the door and that will now have to put their interest in writing, are the two Indian ones. Vulcan Green Steel and Steel Mont, the Ukrainian group Metinvestthe Canadian company Stelco and two Italians for whom the names of Arvedi And Marcegaglia.
Priority, as indicated by the commissioners, will be given to overall expressions of interest. But if the proposals are deemed incongruous, it is not excluded that individual companies could be valorized. The contents will be important, already illustrated by the minister in the meetings with the social partners and with the administrators of the territorial bodies.