MILAN — Stellantis will produce 4 medium-segment electrical automobiles, of various manufacturers, at its Melfi plant in southern Italy from 2024, the UILM union mentioned on Tuesday.
Since Stellantis was shaped at the start of this 12 months by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA, manufacturing in Italy has been below scrutiny for costing greater than elsewhere in Europe.
“Stellantis introduced that Melfi could be the primary plant in Italy to get new fashions, primarily based on post-2022 marketing strategy,” UILM mentioned in an announcement after staff’ representatives met with the carmaker at Italy’s trade ministry in Rome.
Future manufacturing at Melfi can be primarily based on a single enhanced manufacturing line that can merge the 2 present ones, the union mentioned, including the restructuring will go away manufacturing capability on the website unchanged at round 400,000 items.
UILM’s head, Rocco Palombella, mentioned unions had not acquired all of the solutions they wished as Stellantis was nonetheless engaged on its new marketing strategy.
“However the optimistic ingredient is that the corporate has not completely known as for structural redundancies,” he mentioned after the assembly.
Stellantis Chief Govt Carlos Tavares has mentioned the group would current its marketing strategy late this 12 months or in early 2022.
Stellantis, the world’s fourth-largest carmaker, gave no particulars about what was mentioned on the assembly.
In an earlier assertion the corporate mentioned it was working “with willpower and pace” to help the vitality transition of all its Italian websites.
Italy’s Trade minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti, nonetheless, mentioned in a separate assertion after the assembly that Stellantis had but to resolve the place it might construct its third electrical battery plant in Europe.
Stellantis, which already has two battery manufacturing unit initiatives in France and Germany, has mentioned including gigafactories in Europe and the US could be determined this 12 months.
The corporate is holding talks on this with Rome, as Italy is one in every of its most important manufacturing hubs in Europe.
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