The dispute

Edim Bosch, official sale to Tecnomeccanica of Piedmont

Extraordinary redundancy fund extended for the Group's production sites in the province of Belluno and Monza Brianza

by Barbara Ganz

21 April 2026

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Key points

The Turning Point
The dispute
The union's position

3' min read

Translated by AI

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During the meeting at which the request for an extension of the extraordinary redundancy fund for the Edim Bosch Group's production sites in the provinces of Belluno and Monza Brianza was discussed, the company made the name of the successor official: the company Tecnomeccanica will take over the Setteville and Villasanta plants.

The Turning Point

Tecnomeccanica Spa is a company specialising in aluminium die-casting for automotive and lighting applications. It had already integrated Mea Srl in Moncalieri in 2018, with which it extended its scope to the design and construction of moulds, adding this know-how to the moulding of small metal parts destined for various industrial sectors and electrical equipment. It subsequently acquired the Crevalcore production site from the multinational Marelli in 2024 for the symbolic sum of one euro. With that zero-cost transaction, born out of a complex industrial crisis for the Emilian plant, Tecnomeccanica further diversified its production through plastic moulding and design enhancement.

The move takes on a political value even more than an industrial one: the buyer has given its willingness to come to the union table even before signing the final contract, and this is considered 'a sign of détente aimed at closing a season of uncertainty and preparing the ground for a social pacification necessary after months of limbo,' says Mauro Zuglian of Fim Cisl Belluno Treviso.

The dispute

In the Edim-Bosch dispute, the company management had announced the existence of a formal purchase request on 10 April, breaking a long silence. The rescue route was strictly bound to the deadline of 5 May 2026, the end date of the negotiated crisis settlement procedure.

Last July, at a meeting between trade union representatives and the management of Edim (Engineering Die-Casting & Machining), the German group's components company, updated economic data and company prospects were presented: a turnover with a negative trend and a company balance sheet showing significant losses, with increasingly serious repercussions on employment. Forecasts for 2025 indicated a still strongly negative EBIT, with direct consequences on the workforce, which was set to shrink from 332 employees in January to 230.

The extension of the redundancy fund for 13 weeks - expiring on 5 August - is the oxygen needed to ferry the company to new ownership. However, it became clear at the table that the lay-off is not considered a long-term solution. 'The objective,' Zuglian continued, 'is to use as little redundancy money as possible, an ambitious plan that aims at the total re-absorption of the workforce thanks to a new customer portfolio and fresh orders. Tecnomeccanica seems intent on transforming the production poles into assets capable of standing on their own feet, avoiding the road of slow divestment'.

Next 27 April will be the real test: the discussion will shift to practical shift management and worker rotation.

The union's position

"As trade unions, we consider this step a fundamental turning point in safeguarding a strategic industrial asset. The Cigs requested is the necessary instrument to ferry the workers and activities to the new management. While waiting for the transfer operation to be defined in every technical detail, we have already formalised the request for an urgent meeting with Tecnomeccanica's management to discuss issues that are fundamental for us. We want to have a guarantee of the maintenance of the employment perimeter for all the workers involved, to be able to see the business plan, which we expect to be solid and structured to have long-term prospects of stability for the Setteville and Villasanta sites, and to have the definition of the terms of the transfer to protect the rights and conditions of the workers of the two plants," declared the trade unionists of Fiom and Fim Bellunesi, united with their Rsu, concluding: 'We hope that the technical timing of the sale will be as short as possible and it is essential to immediately start the trade union discussion to know in detail the industrial project of the new ownership. It will be our care to convene the workers' assemblies as soon as we have concrete feedback from the negotiating table to share the details of the agreement and future work prospects'.

Barbara GanzCorrispondente a NordEst
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