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No extension from the ministry, the coke 12 battery goes out

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The Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, “turns off” the coke battery number 12 of the former Ilva of Taranto. It does so by signing a decree that does not grant the extension of the end of the implementation works from 30 June next to 31 January 2022. The extension of the Aia intervention was requested by Ilva in extraordinary administration (owner of the plants) at the request of ArcelorMittal Italia (manager) and motivated among other things by the shutdown of construction sites for the Covid emergency.

The front against the extension

A front against the extension had already emerged at the conference of services on 16 June. Now Cingolani’s no has arrived. Which confirmed the month-end date for the completion of the work on drums 12. Which will not happen. And so if the sentence filed on 23 June by the Council of State, annulling the order of the mayor of Taranto and reforming a sentence of the Lecce TAR, saved the plants in the hot area from being shut down, now the Cingolani decree will have the effect of keeping the company with the brake on.

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Implants out of play

Already two days ago, meeting the unions in Taranto, the former Ilva had warned that he would not restart the blast furnace 4 and the steel mill 1, both of which had been stopped for a couple of months, if she had been brought to stop the battery 12. Less coke to feed the blast furnaces (three batteries remain in operation: 7, 8 and 9) and two plants temporarily out of action, in fact mean less steel and a target of 5 million tons in 2021 (after just over 3 million in 2020) which moves away. This is while the steel market is turning a thousand with high demands. On the other hand, the request for ordinary layoffs starting from 28 June for 12 weeks should not grow. For now, the maximum number of 4,000 remains confirmed because “the company is not in a position to ensure the immediate and total recovery of all production plants”.

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Launch after checking the adjustments

The minister’s decree states, with reference to battery 12, that “the manager must respect the deadline of 30 June 2021 set by the Dpcm of 29 September 2017 for the implementation of the interventions”. «The operator, if the indicated term expires unnecessarily, without the complete implementation of the interventions referred to in the prescription, must immediately start the decommissioning of battery no. 12 and conclude this process no later than 10 days “. «The entry into operation of battery no. 12 may only take place after verification by the Supervisory Authority of the completion of the adaptation interventions envisaged by the Dpcm of 29 September 2017 “. Cingolani’s no to the extension collects the satisfaction of the citizen Health and Environment Committee in Taranto, which had already made an appeal to this effect to the minister by leveraging on pollution problems.

The unions: restart the table

Finally, the leaders of Fim Cisl, Fiom Cgil and Uilm wrote to ministers Giorgetti, Cingolani, Orlando and Franco (and for information to Prime Minister Draghi) asking for the restart of the former Ilva table with all the interested parties after the sentence of the State Council . Meeting already convened for July 8 by Giorgetti, Orlando and the company present.

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