MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “The Apulian community and Taranto must decide whether it wants industry or not”. This was said by the president of Federacciai, Antonio Gozzi, on the margin of a meeting, intervening hard on the future of the former Ilva. Gozzi underlined that a steel industry requires ineliminable requirements and that it is not possible to expect to maintain 10,000 employees without allowing the existence of infrastructure such as high furnaces, bakeries and electric ovens. The president has quoted critically the recent measures of the mayor of Taranto on the emissions of the power plant, warning that “or build the conditions enabling to make industry or industry will disappear”. According to Gozzi, industrial noises that Jindal should present out a “strong resize” for the Apulian site. The indiscretion is that the plant can stop being a primary steel manufacturer to become a simple “bramme relaminator from other parts of the world”. This scenario would have direct repercussions on Genoa: if the production of coils in Taranto fell to 4-5 million tons, a serious supply problem for Ligurian plants would be created, making necessary a “mixed model” with supplies from other sources. The leader of Federacciai then widened his gaze to the European context, denouncing an “ideological and extremist Green Deal” that transformed decarbonization into a risk of industrial desertification.
“In a desert there is nothing green,” Gozzi warned, calling for a turning point in European governance that puts industry back in the middle of the agenda. Finally, Gozzi drew attention to the need to invest in human capital to support the geopolitical role of Italy in the Mediterranean. “Manage 175,000 jobs in the economy of the sea”, he recalled, concluding that the answer to this challenge lies exclusively in “training, training, training”.
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