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Caterpillar confirms plan on Jesi. Less than a month to submit offers

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Monday 14 February: for that day Caterpillar awaits the formalization of the interest in acquiring the Jesi site by Duplomatic group. No step backwards on the table of the Mise, which since yesterday has moved the dispute over the future of the Marches plant of the American multinational where cylinders for earth-moving machinery are produced, within which 189 employees are employed to which about 80 are added. temporary workers. Connected by videoconference with the ministry, the CEO Jean Matthieu Chatain, did not withdraw the mobility procedure, as the unions requested, but said he was only available to a conditional agreement: yes to Cigs (for prospective termination or relocation agreement , ed), but if after 12 months a buyer is not found or there are workers who have not been reabsorbed, we will proceed with the dismissal. An inadmissible proposal for the trade unions, “also because it discourages any form of negotiation, since it would be enough to wait a year and take the site without workers”, points out Tiziano Beldomenico, leader of Fiom Marche, who with other trade unions brought Caterpillar to the front of the labor judge for anti-union behavior (first hearing on 9 February next). The comment of the regional governor Francesco Acquaroli is even harsher, who speaks of an “attitude of total unavailability of the company, disrespectful towards all interlocutors”.

There is another key date in the calendar of the dispute: it is February 23, the last day to avoid layoffs. In the meantime, negotiations will continue: the Mise will reconvene the parties in the coming days, hoping to find a balance, also because the good news for the future of Jesi is there. Chatain, placing the ultimatum on Duplomatic to formalize the interest, also spoke to the other potential buyers without revealing their identity; it would be some direct competitors of Caterpillar and a group that produces gears, whose top management will visit Jesi in the first week of February.

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The Caterpillar CEO the other day returned to the factory for a few hours and only to welcome the CEO of Duplomatic Group, the only one who publicly confirmed “the concrete interest”, albeit conditional, in acquiring the site. “I hope that all interested companies will present themselves with an industrial and non-speculative plan,” says Maddalon, who leads a group specialized in the design and production of components and products for oleodynamics, hydraulics, mechatronics and electromechanics, as well as advanced systems for motion control, 13 factories in Italy, Germany, Great Britain, United States, China, India and Australia, with over 650 employees and 147 million in revenues in 2021. The group already has factories that produce cylinders, two of which in Modena , and from the headquarters in Parabiago, in the Milanese area, the response to the ultimatum of the American multinational is very clear and would mark the beginning of a negotiation: “We want to expand our production capacity, but it is not our intention to close any of our factories to move the production to Jesi ”, underlines the CEO. In short, the acquisition is possible on condition that “Caterpillar and the institutions allow the passage to be ferried until the Jesi plant can, by integrating into the group, stand alone”. For the American multinational, it means considering Duplomatic as its strategic supplier. “We have common interests – concludes Maddalon -: to limit the damage on Jesi”. The bishops of the Marche also speak of damage: yesterday, while the national table was underway, the heads of the dioceses of Ancona, Jesi and Senigallia met in the cathedral of San Settimio together with Caterpillar workers, their families and common people : “The earthquake and the pandemic have torn the social fabric of the Marches: without work people are wounded in their dignity”, is the appeal launched by Monsignor Angelo Spina, guide of the archdiocese of the regional capital.

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