Manufacturing industry in the mountains: it is possible. The example of the former Weissenfels and Eurolls

Heavy industry still takes place in Fusine

FUSINE (Udine) – Friuli Venezia Giulia is witness to the fact that ‘heavy’ industry can also be done in the mountains. The redevelopment of part of the industrial complex of the historic steelworks of Fusine, in Val Romana, in Tarvisio (Udine), nourishes intelligence and glimmer. The KitoCrosby Group, specialized in the production of chains and lifting accessories, has decided to invest and bring new luster to the former canteen, which has now become home to brand new offices that can accommodate up to 25 people.

An intervention in which the FVG Region also participated through a Civil Protection allocation.
The former Weissenfels, part of the KitoCrosby giant, have an anthropological value in the area. In addition to offering work and being guided by the enlightened governance of the general director, Raffaele Fantelli, they are part of the territory and its history, they also tell it.

They are in fact nestled in a gorge, adjacent to the Fusine Lakes, a unique natural compendium from a naturalistic point of view: objectively beautiful. At the same time, there is a manufacturing industry and production.

This does not exclude being in the middle of the mountains. Same fate for Eurolls, the multinational mechanical engineering company from Friuli, which has decided to open a branch in Val Resia, with a doubling of the production unit which will be carried out shortly.

Renato Railz, administrator of Eurolls, will meet Fantelli in the next few days to exchange perspectives on doing industry in the mountains, again in the mechanical segment.

In fact, Railz recently declared: “With the example we have made it clear that even in the mountains it is possible to produce, to do industry, and even heavy industry, like ours, starting from this basic assumption, which underlies a widespread production growth and therefore jobs, we need to include everything else there is in the mountains: services, hotels, restaurants, tourism.

The manufacturing industry, as has always happened in Italy, by creating jobs, offers that substrate on which everything else can be born and increased. This is true in every valley, I am thinking of Val Canale and Canal del Ferro, adjacent to Val Resia. I want to meet all the productive or entrepreneurial realities of these valleys, to create a system”.