Stellantis, super-line in Melfi with four electric cars by 2024

A project emerges for Melfi with a single superline for four medium-segment electric cars by 2024 with a maximum capacity of the plant between 370 and 400 thousand cars a year. It is learned from sources close to the company after the meeting at Mise with trade unions, the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti and Labor Andrea Orlando. “The meeting held today at the Ministry of Economic Development was a strong positive sign of Stellantis’ commitment in Italy, with an even more constructive collaboration that we have long ago started with the Ministry of Economic Development and with all the trade union organizations with which we meet periodically “, said a spokesman for the company at the end of the meeting at the Mise. “Stellantis – he continues – is working with determination and speed to anticipate and support the energy transition of all its Italian industrial sites with the aim of guaranteeing sustainability by improving performance and making the country play a strategic role among the main markets European domestic staff of the Group. The Company expresses great appreciation for the continuation of this productive and constructive dialogue, with the aim of building together with all the social partners the conditions to guarantee a bright and competitive future for Stellantis and for all its employees. “.” First positive step in which indications of a desire for significant investment in the Melfi reality came, we look forward to learning about further aspects of this strategy “, said Labor Minister Andrea Orlando at the end of the meeting. . “As a government we have given maximum availability to the challenge that Stellantis intends to launch in the transition process. There have been some positive indications in a positive climate. Of course this is a process that must continue to understand the implications of these choices”, concluded Orlando “The commitment of the government and of the company is positive that this is only the first meeting to address the Stellantis issue with all that it means: transition, induced activities, factories and employment. affirmed the general secretary of Fiom Francesca Re David. Su Melfi Re David stressed that “it is positive that the company has anticipated a piece of industrial plan that includes electrification, four new models, battery assembly, while it is complex and to be evaluated what it means to make two lines a superline, because for as far as we are concerned, this operation cannot affect either employment or workers’ wages “, concluded King David.
” The words of the minister of economic development, Giancarlo Giorgetti, on the future of the Melfi plant are truly comforting, bringing a new perspective to a plant that is crucial for Basilicata and for the country, ” said the president of the Basilicata Region, Vito Bardi. ” We now expect that the process started today – adds the Lucan governor – can be declined starting from the third European gigafactory of the battery group: I hope it will see the light in Melfi, given that the Lucanian plant should become the headquarters of the Stellantis electric platform. In this sense I will engage all the energies of the Basilicata Region ”.