Business and Made in Italy Minister
Adolfo Urso on Tuesday said the Beko plant in Comunanza near
Ascoli Piceno will remain open.
"During meetings over the past few hours, we have further
improved the perspectives of the industrial plan, which we will
illustrate to unions on Monday, including maintaining the plant
in Comunanza which was the one most at risk", Urso told Italian
reporters on the sidelines of an event organized by the Italian
embassy in Turkey, at Palazzo Venezia in Istanbul, after meeting
with the management of the Turkish multinational.
Earlier this month, the company announced a new draft industrial
plan, amid talks with government officials, with investments of
up to 300 million euros in Italy after the top management of the
former Whirlpool Italian unit last November announced to unions
the closure by the end of 2025 of Beko Europe plants in Siena in
Tuscany and Comunanza in Marche as well as the cold line in
Cassinetta near Varese in Lombardy, with 1,935 redundancies in
total.
The announcement in November came after 12 years of redundancy
payments between former Whirlpool and Beko Europe.
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