The following is the excerpt sull'Ilva tract surgery preparation Eng. Biagio De Marzo (former manager Ilva, Terni, Falck) for the Forum on "Economics, LAND AND DEVELOPMENT "5 December 2006 - Public Library - organized by THE CITY 'I want."
"The inevitable future Ilva di Taranto.
The production structure and size" monster "of 'Ilva Taranto require rigorous reflection on its future, not present in the' Act of supplementary agreement of 23 October 2006, at least, permanently removes half of the argument of those who argue that the city, the territory and the country can do less Ilva and recognizes the economic and social importance and underlines the strategic importance for the entire national steel industry. No one can forget that Taranto produces 50% of the steel and Italian this is a legacy that the region has received from the State, for better or for worse. In the act of understanding is recognized that it needs to continue improving the environmental impact "in the context of a guarantee for the stability of the factory production and employment", with the mutual commitment to reduce conflict, especially that which flows in the courts.
We fear that prevail in the immediate bureaucratic aspects, with "mountains of cards" in the face of modest results. E 'instead must focus on the problems of understanding that the act could not resolve: "to promote the development of industry initiatives and improvement of environmental stability," undertake useful activities to "improve the health and safety of workers (Ed note: and citizens) in a common effort to combine health, safety and efficiency of management and organization and to progressively reduce the accident rate in the establishment Ilva of Taranto" all in a framework of corporate social and economic compatibility.
Anyone acquainted with the complex situation of Taranto steel plant and its well known that the general commitments of the act of understanding is insufficient. We know, for example, that there are still challenging issues related to the removal of dust from sheds, structures, roads and yards, with the containment of dust from discharge marine installations, the "neutralization" of the myriad of "emissions aware" and "fugitive emissions", all caused by technical facts such as wear, aging, lack of maintenance, improper design, incorrect operations, and more. We know that the giant plant makes huge pollution issues: just think a little 'how many chimneys and how many valves (main occasions of "fugitive emissions") are installed in a factory that covers an area of \u200b\u200b11,000,000 mq.
say these things because they need to keep your feet on the ground and look forward. The President took note of the Puglia region, with understandable realism, that there are no affordable technical solutions for major parks, as they are designed and manufactured. You can not "bury" at reasonable cost and compatible with the economic life of the company due to the presence of the underlying aquifer. Equally inconsistent would be the cost to "cover" should build and install as many "hangar" at least 60 meters high (as a building of 20 floors) to enable the operation of the machines that are 50 meters high divalent and move along parks and wide primary. The "hangar" would have a total area of \u200b\u200babout 1,500,000 square meters and should be equipped with a giant dust removal systems to protect workers to the plant workers and maintenance. Just as economically unfeasible is the "displacement" of the major parks in other areas: the restructuring would lead ore preparation plants, amusement parks, homogenization, coke ovens and byproducts, agglomeration, blast furnaces. It is risky to shoot a figure of at least € 10 billion investment, not to mention the enormous problems in the transition from old to new order, without stopping production for significant periods. For the volumes involved, it is equally unrealistic to think to change the production process cast iron / steel type Arvedi pointing to solutions.
It 'hard to determine who should support the effort to remedy the "original sin" committed almost fifty years ago by the designers of the plant: put the 'dirty area "(areas of iron and steel) close to the city and the' clean area '(pipe mills and rolling mills) away. In the planning phase, the situation could be reversed, as having cost more than a few kilometers of conveyor belts from the sea to the plant facilities, while today it would anger of God
So what? E 'to take the road of corporate restructuring programs that the phased closure of the hot, as was done in Corniglia, sourcing of slabs days. The staff made redundant would be used in remediation and restructuring of the areas to be used as areas behind the port available to a truly great port Hub. There are great things, but unavoidable and should be considered promptly and driven together. Someone maliciously think that the property will, however, the initiative to close the area to warm when the purchase price of the slabs on the market will be lower than their cost of production at Taranto. Retropensiero This accords with the strategy of the company and extra time, waiting to ripen the conditions that would put the company in a position of increased strength of the current.
Ours is an invitation to share the knowledge that a complete and decisive Ilva environmental remediation project that can not be a major project of corporate restructuring, with a sigh of several years and many human and economic resources but, above all, that must be supported by great people, public and private, with the courageous and farsighted. And 'This is the challenge ahead and win. The alternative would be the inevitable resumption of bitter conflict, the outcome is unpredictable for a "wicked" of the local situation or a "shambles" in the international steel industry.
The hope is that the tsunami did not seize us unprepared or even committed yet to discuss whether it is better to "die of cancer or hunger."
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