(Telestock) – “In these hours a flood of declarations on the former Ilva does not correspond to the reality of the facts. It is time for the negotiating confrontation to be held in the appropriate institutional venues, starting with the convening of the round table at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as jointly requested by Fim, Fiom, Uilm for many days now. And the Minister Adolfo Urso cconvene the table that addresses the issue of the national and European steel industry as a whole”. This was declared in a note by Loris Scarpa, national steel coordinator for Fiom-Cgil.
“This situation is causing negative consequences for the plants, the workers and the citizens who are paying an unacceptable price. A concrete restart plan is needed – he adds – with certain times for people to return to work, resources are needed for production, for maintenance, for the safety of workers and the environment.
Today, Minister Urso had announced that a Canadian company would join the two Indian companies, Vulcan Green Steel and Steel Mont, and the Ukrainian-Dutch Metinvest: “There are other industrial entities that have also asked to visit the plants of what was the former Ilva. In addition to the three entities that have done so in recent weeks, in this case it is a Canadian company, one of the large G7 countries”. This was stated by the Minister of Enterprise, Adolfo Urso, on the sidelines of the Unioncamere assembly.
“It means that – said Urso – the major players have understood that the former Ilva steelworks can be revived, obviously with green technology”.
“Every day we hear something new but it seems very complicated to me to put Ilva on the market. I have never seen a buyer for a company in those conditions, con the rusty plants and only one and a half blast furnaces in operation – the rather sceptical comment of Rocco Palombella, general secretary of Uilm.
“It would be interesting to understand what they put on the market. We have been asking for six months what the recovery plan is, not just an industrial one, but one that we still haven’t seen anything.”