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Ex Ilva pulls the brake again in Taranto and stops blast furnace 4 and steel mill 1

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Steel continues its happy season but the former Ilva from Taranto is again forced to pull the handbrake. Acciaierie d’Italia in the meeting held on November 29 with the metalworking acronyms communicated that from December 1 to January 20 the blast furnace 4, one of the three currently in operation in the steel industry, will stop. The stop, which will also drag the steel mill 1, is due to technical and plant problems that the blast furnace 4 has been accusing for some weeks.

Union sources spoke of injuries to the crucible but the company has never said anything about it. And after the meeting, Fim Cisl and Fiom Cgil declared that “interventions of an extraordinary nature will be carried out which will be evaluated during the same stop”. You will need to empty the blast furnace before proceeding. Uilm and Usb recalled that months ago blast furnace 4 had already been subjected to works costing about 70 million. The halt at steel mill 1 is instead a consequence of what happens upstream. With only two blast furnaces in operation, two steel mills are not justified and therefore only 2 remains in operation.

Beyond the repercussions on the production levels of cast iron and steel (this year, after a 2020 closed with a steel production of just over 4 million tons, the company, of which Invitalia is a partner, had hypothesized a rise to 5 million tons), all to be assessed the effects on the workforce and on the redundancy fund which is already in place at the Taranto site. Fim and Fiom say that Acciaierie d’Italia ā€œhas informed that the future structures of the cold area will be communicated in the next few days as the company is currently assessing itā€. Uilm, on the other hand, does not right now rule out an increase in the cig precisely because other systems are stopped. The redundancy fund opened in Taranto involves a maximum number of 3,500 employees including employees and workers but really in cig there are between 1,800 and 1,900 employees according to the latest numbers communicated by Acciaierie d’Italia. The maximum number is indicated in the cig procedure precisely to allow flexible use, and correlated to the needs, of the social safety nets.

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