Mirafiori, a symbolic factory in the history of Fiat, will become a competence center for the electrification of the Stellantis group: not only the electric 500, which with its entire range will be based in Turin, but the Stellantis Turin Manufacturing District will be born with a single process of production for different Maserati models, able to integrate different platforms, models and propulsion systems.
The new Maserati models will arrive between 2022 and 2024.
The plan was illustrated by the operations manager for Europe Davide Mele, in the meeting at the Mise, with the ministers Giancarlo Giorgetti and Andrea Orlando and with the trade unions. The company has also confirmed the launch of the models planned for 2022, despite the microchip crisis: the Grecale will arrive, which is produced in Cassino and will be presented on November 16, and the Tonale which will be produced in Pomigliano from March 2022 and marketed by June next year. The activities of the former Bertone, now Agap - a factory that Sergio Marchionne's FCA had taken over in 2009 - and all 1,100 employees (the two plants are not far away) will be transferred to Mirafiori. There will be no redundancies. In Grugliasco, where the Maserati Ghibli and Quattroporte are produced today,for now, only the bodywork will remain and will be moved to the end of the plan in 2024. The Maserati Gran Cabrio and Gran Turismo will also be built in Mirafiori and the Levante SUV will continue to be produced.
"This is another strong positive sign of Stellantis' commitment in Italy, with an even more constructive collaboration that the company has long since started with the government and with all the trade unions with which it regularly confronts", underlines the company that aims "to make the country play a strategic role among the Group's main domestic markets". Before the summer, the new platform in Melfi had already been announced for the production starting from 2024 of four multi-brand electric models and an assembly line for batteries. "The confirmation of the investments in Turin, which reaffirms its central role for research and innovation", comments Giorgetti. The company's commitment to present the overall plan of the group in Italy "it is a positive sign as well as the reassurance that there will be no relocation to Poland for Sevel of Chieti "underlines the minister. The trade unions want commitments on employment." We ask for formal guarantees for workers and production missions, but also on conditions of work "affirm Rocco Palombella, general secretary of Uilm, and Gianluca Ficco, head of the auto sector." It is essential to open a table in Turin in a short time on the transfer of Grugliasco productions to Mirafiori as done in Melfi last July ", underlines Roberto Di Maulo, general secretary of Fismic Confsal, while Francesca Re David, general secretary of Fiom-Cgil and Michele De Palma, national secretary of Fiom, give "a negative opinion of themeeting for the lack of a strategic plan for workers "and ask the government to intervene.
