The Minister of Labor and Social Policies Giuliano Poletti, just over a month after the inauguration of the first Matrìca plant, visited the innovative industrial site today. Porto Torres is the first example in Italy of the conversion of a petrochemical plant making a structural loss into a green chemical plant with solid business and employment prospects: 120 Matrìca direct employees, which will be 145 by the end of the year, and an average daily presence on site of 400 workers from third-party companies. Matrìca, a 50:50 joint venture between Versalis (Eni) and Novamont, is one of the most innovative integrated green chemistry complexes in the world for the production of high added value monomers and intermediates using raw materials exclusively from renewable vegetable sources.
“Matrìca is the first concrete example of our process of virtuous reconversion of critical Italian sites. It is a project with high added value for the territory and for industry: in 22 months we have invested 180 million euros to start the production of 70K/ton of innovative and sustainable bio-products - said Daniele Ferrari, Versalis CEO ( Eni) – Versalis, the first chemical company in Italy, has also undertaken a process of renewal and investment in other plants, such as Priolo and Porto Marghera, to give a future to our industrial chain and to the people who work there".
In Priolo, Sicily, the program is being implemented, launched at the beginning of 2013 with an investment of 160 million euros to date, for the consolidation of the plants based on the reorganization of the cracking and on the valorisation of its derivatives for the production of specialty.
In Porto Marghera, an industrial site of primary importance for Versalis, a transformation project will soon be implemented aimed at giving the site economic and productive sustainability, through the development of an innovative chemistry technological platform from renewable sources. Furthermore, the development of the metathesis technology of vegetable oil with ethylene continues, in collaboration with the American company Elevance Renewables, announced in recent months.
Versalis confirms the initiatives being implemented in all the other Italian plants, which have the primary objective of recovering profitability and competitiveness of the whole company.
