All 430 workers at Whirlpool's
Brazilian fridge compressor unit Embraco's closed plant near
Turin will be saved by new projects from two firms, Industry
Minister Carlo Calenda said Tuesday.
On the future of the plant at Riva di Chieri, he said, "today
the unions were presented with the projects from the two firms
who will invest in the ex-Embraco re-employing all the workers
with the same rights and the same compensations, without any
support of public money," he said.
He said the parties would meet "next Friday at the Turin
industrialists' union to understand the details of the projects,
it is a good operation and it has ended up well".
Embraco is moving its production to Slovakia.
Initially 497 jobs were threatened but around 70 have already
left the firm, having taken redundancy payments.
The to firms are an Israeli-Chinese joint venture aiming to
make robots to clean solar panels and water filters; and Turin's
Astelav, which reboots used fridges.
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