Stellantis, here’s how production in the Turin plants will change
All the details on Stellantis announcements. The speech by Roberto Benaglia, Fim-Cisl general secretary, and Ferdinando Uliano, Fim-Cisl national secretary
Yesterday's meeting at the MiSE by Stellantis confirms the completion of the FCA industrial plan with the respective production launches of Alfa Romeo Tonale, Maserati and Grecale and the Maserati GC and GT on the Turin site. The company has specified that the shortage of microchips resulting from the pandemic is affecting production levels but must not compromise the strategic choices for the future, characterized by the 30 billion plan aimed at anticipating the ecological transition that is involving the sector of automotive. The problems on semiconductors will affect the sector until the first half of 2022. The company is making a series of interventions to limit the negative impacts on the lack of semiconductors, in particular on suppliers and standardization with reengineering processes.
The company then illustrated the plan for the Turin production center. Specifically, the launch of the new electric platform of Stellantis is planned in 2024 which will be the basis of the future Maserati sedans of Ghibli and Quattroporte, which will then also be used for the Maserati GT and GC whose launches will be scheduled in the first months of 2021. This operation will bring the assembly and painting of all the cars to Mirafiori within the year. Only the Bodywork department will remain in Grugliasco until the start of the new platform in 2024. The Turin hub will be characterized as the future hub of the 500, therefore all the current productions in Turin and Tychy (Poland) will be concentrated in Mirafiori. Currently the total productions of 500, including full electric and other engines, are around 200,000. The company then underlined the interventions to characterize Turin as a center of competences for the development of electricity, starting from the hub on batteries and smart grid technology, as well as confirming it as a competence, engineering and strategic center, on the subject of electrification. , connectivity, development of Alfa and Maserati products, commercial vehicles, fiat vehicles and jeeps on a small platform.
"We have understood that from Stellantis there is a progressive definition of the industrial plan that will have to characterize investments by 2024. We reiterate that for the ecological transition it must also be managed within the automotive table and the situation of semiconductors is fundamental that our country no longer suffers than other countries. We also reiterated that the government and also Stellantis are committed to our country producing semiconductors in the near future.
The stellantis Plan, continues in stages, the Melfi negotiation has acquired an important result, such as the assignment of the gigafactory to Melfi. Now we need to define a process of confrontation to ratify the commitments in the government. The investment choice on the future premium Maserati 2024 platform and the development center of the 500 hub was positive.
In the next few days, presumably on 25 October, a detailed and detailed comparison will be activated on all industrial and employment aspects relating to the Turin production center. The Stellantis management also specified on Sevel that the choice of 18 to 15 shifts is temporary and as soon as the situation on semiconductors improves, there is a commitment to protect a strategic asset for the Group and resume the previous production capacity. It was specified that the Polish pole is not a substitute for the Italian one, but has brought with it some outsourcing. On the trade union side, it was specified the need to address the issue of unconfirmed contracts administered and the stabilization of those administered for an indefinite period still in force.
As Fim-Cisl we reiterated the need to build these state of progress of comparisons at the government level also for the other sites. It is necessary to shorten the stages of the confrontation on all production sites and entities aimed at acquiring certain industrial and employment prospects. We have also asked the Government to activate a table as soon as possible to face a discussion to give answers on all the production sites of Stellantis, from that of the engines to the assembly ones, we expect a realization from the Ministry of Economic Development in the coming days.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/stellantis-torino-stabilimenti-fim-cisl/ on Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:10:57 +0000.