ArcelorMittal's lawyers said
Wednesday they are studying initiatives to avoid the closure of
the second blast furnace at the former ILVA steel plant ordered
Tuesday by Taranto prosecutors.
The attorneys said have started "studying hypotheses" of
initiatives, possibly together with the consortium that took
over ILVA last year.
Unconfirmed sources said a request could be filed to suspend
the prosecutor's order although the company has not issued any
further comments following the prosecutor's order.
The order, which concerns one of the plant's three blast
furnaces, was issued in connection with the 2015 death of a
worker there.
The Taranto plant, which is being cleaned up and revamped to
save jobs and ease cancer-linked pollution, is the biggest in
Europe.
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