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Iveco Bus will return to produce in Italy

2022-06-20T15:53:24.508Z


Iveco Bus will return to producing buses in Italy. The sites involved in the project are those of Turin and Foggia, now specialized in the production of industrial internal combustion engines. (HANDLE)


Iveco Bus will return to producing buses in Italy.

The sites involved in the project are those of Turin and Foggia, now specialized in the production of industrial internal combustion engines.

This was announced by Iveco Group which has submitted a request for access to the Mise Development Contracts as part of the opportunities of the Pnrr.

The vehicles will be based on latest generation technologies, including those relating to battery and hydrogen electric propulsion.

The project will contribute to the energy and ecological transition process of public transport in Italy and will have positive impacts on the development of the supply chain.


The company plans to train current employees and make new hires. 

In particular, the engineering and manufacturing activities of electric batteries will be enhanced at the Piedmontese plants, while in Foggia new lines for the final assembly of high-tech, zero-emission buses (Bev - Battery Electric Vehicles and Fcev - Fuel) will be installed. Cell Electric Vehicles) and low emissions (methane / biomethane and latest generation diesel / biodiesel).

The initial processing of the new buses will be started in the other Group plants already dedicated to the production of Iveco Bus.

It will continue in Foggia, thanks to alternative propulsions produced in Turin and hydrogen fuel cells.

Also in Foggia it will be completed with the addition of components supplied largely by the national automotive supply chain.

The manufacturing and R&D activities on batteries, as well as the engine supplies of low-emission vehicles, will be entrusted to Fpt Industrial, the Group's brand dedicated to powertrain technologies.

The project, even if it is subject to the acceptance of the request for access to the Development Agreement, is at an advanced stage and therefore could be operational as early as 2022, with the ambition to produce the first buses in the spring of 2023. "We are convinced of the goodness of our proposal and happy to announce it today because, trusting in its acceptance, it will allow us to develop new skills,

Giorgetti, welcome back!

Be the first of many

"Welcome back Iveco! After much talk about reshoring, the facts arrive. This is great news for the relaunch of the Italian industry and a concrete signal of the implementation of government support that go hand in hand with a successful business idea that it wants to bring back, as in this case, important productions in our country ".

Thus the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti commenting on the return to Italy of Iveco's production.

"In addition, - he emphasizes in a note - the rule on fast track, which I strongly wanted, makes it possible to speed up and overcome any bureaucratic obstacles to make strategic investments in Italy. The hope is that Iveco is only the first of many other projects that they go in this direction ".

Source: ansa

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