CATANIA (ITALPRESS) – Fifteen expressions of interest are arriving to take over the former Ilva. The Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, spoke about this on the sidelines of a meeting at SiciliaFiera in Catania with entrepreneurs in the area. “We took over the fate of what was Italy’s largest steel hub at the end of February, when there were raw materials supplies for only four days,” Urso explained. In just six months, the commissioners, under our instructions, managed to restore full functionality of blast furnace number 4 and plan to open a second blast furnace in October this year and the third in the first part of 2025.” In addition, “in these six months we have created the conditions, including through the bridge loan and the site development plan, for an international tender whose preliminary phase closed tonight with expressions of interest from 15 international and national players, some of whom have submitted an expression of interest in the entire production asset.””It begins a phase in which these companies will be able to access further information on the basis of which they can build their industrial, financial, environmental and employment plan, and at the same time, if there are other interested parties they could still make them in a cordate with this one, and in any case in any case it is always possible for others to access an expression of interest,” the minister stressed. I think in the coming months they will define the industrial plans that are competitive with each other, and we will choose the one that will be best to ensure the revival of the national steel industry and the green path of the former Ilva site, which we think can become the largest green steel site in Europe.”
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