Acciaierie Valbruna, pressure on Bolzano to ensure continuity
Urso: the Golden Power investigation confirmed the full strategic nature of the plant. The Veneto region also asks the province to review the notice
by Barbara Ganz
Key points
Pressure is mounting to give certain prospects to the Bolzano plant of Acciaierie Valbruna Spa, a company active in the production of special steels and super alloys, whose areas have been the subject of a tender for the concession of surface rights by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.
L’incontro
As planned in the previous meeting on 16 September, a new round table dedicated to the situation was held at the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, coordinated by Minister Adolfo Urso of Enterprise and Made in Italy, attended by the company's top management, Vice-President Marco Galateo for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, technicians from the Veneto Region with the Company Crisis Unit, the Municipality of Vicenza (where the company is based) and the trade unions Fiom Cgil, Fim Cisl and Uilm Uil.
"The Golden Power investigation confirmed the full strategic nature of the Acciaierie Valbruna plant in Bolzano, as Mimit had maintained from the outset," Urso began. 'Any threat to its production continuity could lead to the government exercising its special powers. It is now up to the Autonomous Province of Bolzano to take note of this and to evaluate every possible solution compatible with the strategic nature of the steel plant'.
L’istruttoria
The Golden Power preliminary investigation - which in fact, although not providing for preventive measures, places a constraint on the areas that would lead to the exercise of special powers by the State in the event of inconsistent awards - had been initiated following the notification by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano regarding the call for tenders for the multi-decade concession of the land on which the Valbruna steel plant in Alto Adige stands. The conclusions effectively secured the continuity of production at the plant, emphasising its highly sensitive and strategic nature, also in relation to the production of materials for the defence sector.
After Minister Urso's opening remarks, the company and trade unions expressed their concerns about the structure of the tender, calling on the Province of Bolzano to reconsider its position in light of the conclusions of the investigation into special powers.
