Piaggio Aero, budget rises to 159 million
CEO Tomassini met with the trade unions and announced 49 million added and 32 new hires planned
Baykar Piaggio Aerospace's budget rises by 49 million and the company also plans to hire 32 new employees. This was announced to the unions, during a meeting at the Villanova d'Albenga plant, by the group's managing director Giovanni Tomassini (appointed by the new Turkish owner in July 2025), who illustrated the plan for the three-year period 2026-2028, which envisages, according to the unions, "an overall economic consistency of 159 million euro, including", precisely, "49 million added as a variation on the initial forecasts".
"The budget,' underlines a Fim-Cisl Liguria note, 'also includes 25 million in investments, divided into 13 million for engines, 6 million for aircraft, 4 million on the plant and 1 million on after market and customer service', to which must be added '10 million for spare parts on customer service'.
The lines of the industrial plan, the union points out, foresee, on the production side, the production of 5 aircraft by 2026 (plus 2 in the delivery phase); in 2027, there will be 8 aircraft on delivery and 9 in 2029, 'all covered by orders already finalised or about to be signed'.
In the engine area, adds the union, 'the commitment will see, on the one hand, the consolidation of activities already underway and, at the same time, the search for new orders (in particular with Safran and Honeywell). In the after-market and customer service area, progress will also have to be made with a view to entering the American market, developing agreements with maintenance centres in the USA and having our own warehouses there.
Finally, in the area of personnel, Baykar Piaggio currently has a total of 678 employees, divided into 520 in Villanova d'Albenga, 141 in Genoa and 17 in Pratica di Mare (Rome). To these, the unions were told, 32 new hires will be added by the end of 2026 (including 8 managers and clerks in Villanova d'Albenga and 9 specialised workers in Rome). On Tuesday 10 March, meanwhile, the first meeting on the integrative contract will be held at the Savona Industrial Union.
