TRIESTE – A slowdown in production due to supply issues.
This is the reason behind Innoway’s recourse to the wage support scheme (CIG). Innoway is a joint venture between the MSC Group and Innofreight for the manufacture of rail freight wagons at the former Wärtsilä site in Bagnoli della Rosandra, a few kilometres from the Port of Trieste.
“Innoway Trieste, while confirming its commitment to the relaunch of the Bagnoli della Rosandra plant, which will see interventions totalling 100 million euros, has had to resort to temporary and limited use of the wage support scheme. This decision is exclusively linked to slowdowns in assembly activities caused by the sudden interruption in the supply of components from the current sole external supplier,” the company said in a statement.
The announcement of wage support had yesterday strongly irritated both the unions and the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, coming just a day after a meeting at the competent Ministry to address the company’s future development.
“As announced during the meeting in Rome, the company is already at work and in recent weeks has been seeking to resolve the immediate situation by looking for other suppliers, including in Italy, in order to ensure production continuity as soon as possible. These suppliers will be needed only for the first phase of the plant’s activities: during the current set-up, the assembly of components produced by external suppliers is foreseen. The same components will be produced at the site starting from 2027,” the statement continues.
“Precisely with the aim of ensuring the objectives of the industrial plan, the company confirms its commitment to file the application for the Development Contract relating to the investments planned for 2026–2027, as announced during the most recent meeting with institutions and the RSU held last week. The contract will make it possible to achieve full operation of the bogie and wagon production lines, and includes infrastructure adaptation works with an internal rail connection within the plant, the installation of a photovoltaic system with an annual output capacity of 2.6 GWh, and the implementation of the management system,” Innoway concluded.
