MILAN – Another sample of Italian industry is about to go under the flag of a foreign group. What once was the colossus of chemistry was going to abdicate, to relinquish control to a multinational. With all the unknowns that this type of operation involves. And ‘this is the reason behind the protest called by trade unions for 20 December: one eight-hour strike with a national demonstration Metanopoli district near Milan born from the fifties to accommodate employees Eni. The energy company is the target of chemical unions CGIL, CISL and UIL, against the plan which provides for the reorganization of Versalis, the company that has inherited the legacy of Enichem, to this day, and despite several renovations, the the main group in the sector in Italy.
Eni, a company which is effectively controlled by the Ministry of Economy, has decided to reorganize Versalis: which means it will be sold the majority stake. In all probability to a foreign group. The reason is very simple: in spite of the president of the industrial Giorgio Squinzi is an entrepreneur in the sector, the Italian chemical travels in centroclassifica of international rankings: according to the latest data available we only 67.o place, when up to thirty years ago we were firmly in the top ten.
For the unions this is the umpteenth sale of industrial activities abroad. And on top of that with the backing of the government, since it is the controlling shareholder. For Eni, they would – instead – to give a future to the group. The same motives with which the government has just given the green light to the sale of Ansaldo Breda and Ansaldo STS, left the area of the Finmeccanica group to go under the Japanese Hitachi, which acts as the first will provide to erase the historical brand.
The fact that the next owner of Versalis is a foreign multinational has recently confirmed to the same chemical group Daniele Ferrari, during a recent Senate hearing: “The partners with whom we are talking – he said – are subject which had a financial value also possess chemical companies in the world and then have the mission of building a large holding of chemistry “.
” Despite all our efforts – he added – we must realize that our Chemistry is the number 67 in the world. This does not mean that we are worse than others, but we still have a way to go. ” Move up the ranks “needs further investment and partnership that we continue to bring technologies. We need a partnership that will give us both of those things so that we can exchange our technology and participate in areas where they still are not and they can exchange the them with us to grow our plants in Italy “.
A version that does not convince the unions. “We are not dealing with a normal reorganization of a large company, but the dismantling of the Italian chemical industry and an acceleration of the process of transformation of Eni sees its activities all concentrated outside of Italy” is the accusation that the Secretaries General Filctem, Femca, Uiltec, Emilio Miceli, Angelo Colombini, Paolo Pirani have launched by the National Assembly in Rome of all the delegates of the Eni Group.
“” Moreover – support the three union leaders – not We only if a number of Members on the chemistry Eni (Versalis and Syndial) filed directly at the Productive Activities Commission of the Chamber to address an act that commits the government to a total action, and if the Industry Committee of the Senate has launched a survey on Versalis, whose breezy sale of shares, due to the low price of oil, can generate speculative appetites, as we fear, contrary to Squinzi strongly supports the sale. “
The sale of the chemical” green “Versalis was initiated after the arrival – a year ago – the new chief executive Claudio Descalzi that wants to reposition the industrial activities of Eni in practice, concentrating only on the extraction and market its hydrocarbon (oil plus gas). It goes in this direction the sale of chinica, but also the decision to provide a market for trading of gas to end users and of the majority of Saipem. To prevent that the latter were to get back to gurppi foreigners – in fact – only interested in the market share, the Government has had to deploy the Strategic Fund of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti which took over 12%. Operation will not be repeated for Versalis.
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