ROME (ITALPRESS) – “The train of history does not stop twice. The time has come for us, Stellantis, to team up with Italy to address the existential challenges we face and underestimated by some in Europe. I will do it directly, concretely. I hate broken promises and I don’t want to be proven wrong by facts. So I will put my face to it.” This was reportedly said by Jean Philippe Imparato, European head of Stellantis, at the opening of the table being held at Mimit.
“All Italian plants will remain in operation: and as early as 2026, production capacity will grow thanks to new models,” Imparato stressed.
At the Pomigliano d’Arco plant, “the current Pandina will arrive in 2030, there will be a next-generation Pandina, and we will install the new Stla Small platform, from 2028, on which it is planned to produce at least 2 new compact models,” the manager reported.
For the Mirafiori plant, the plan calls for “hybrid on the current 500 from the end of 2025 and a new generation of 500 confirmed until 2032-2033. Today we produce gearboxes for hybrid models for Alfa Romeo Junior, Fiat 600, Jeep Avenger, Citroen C4, Peugeot 2008: we will reach 600 thousand units per year,” and there is an estimate to “increase production capacity to 900 thousand units per year,” he added. As for the circular economy hub, “expansion and increased revenues from recycling are planned. The balance at one year of operation is 10,000 remanufactured engines, 10,000 remanufactured gearboxes and 1,000 remanufactured batteries, 5,000 reconditioned vehicles and 1.8 million processed components.” The plan includes the GrEEn-campus, “an innovative workplace transformation program to create collaborative, zero-carbon environments. An initiative that aims to strengthen Stellantis’ core functions, such as engineering and Tech, through innovative and sustainable projects. The site will bring together employees involved in different activities, including some of the Group’s global decision-making centers,” he explained. Also at Mirafiori is the Battery Technology Center. “This innovative center increases Stellantis’ capacity to design, develop and test battery packs, modules, high-voltage cells and software that will power future vehicles of Stellantis brands. The center is among the largest in the European automotive industry,” Imparato noted.
“Acknowledging the indications that have emerged in recent months from the table and from Parliament, we have taken on the responsibility of representing to Stellantis the demands of Sistema Italia, in a close, continuous confrontation, on merit. A sustainable and clear Industrial Plan that places Italy at the center of Stellantis’ development policy and that commits the company to assume the social responsibility of governing, with all of us, the technological and industrial transition, which is the real challenge for our Europe,” said, according to information, Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso, opening the work of the Stellantis table underway at Mimit.
“A plan that places production and employment in Italy at the center of Stellantis’ strategy, with the maintenance of all plants, significant investment in research and development, in new models and production platforms, with the valorization of Made in Italy and the protection of labor, the retraining of skills and generational turnover,” he added. “An Italy Plan that already includes clear and specific commitments in 2025 in the territory, on production investments and plant development, on the collaborative relationship with the supply chain and with a purchasing plan for national components, the enhancement of engineering, research and design centers in Italy. And at the same time a common commitment in Europe to review the rules on automotive, as expressed in our ‘non-paper’. We believe that the Italy plan that the company will now illustrate responds to these indications,” Urso concluded.
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