Last Tuesday, at the auction launched by the Turin bankruptcy court, Versalis spa offered € 80 million to acquire the so-called “bio perimeter”, composed of the four companies Biochemtex, Beta Renewable, Ibp and Ibp Energia of the Mossi & Ghisolfi group (M & G ), the most important in a preventive arrangement.
After the opening of the envelope with the only offer, namely that of Versalis-Eni, received at the auction in Turin, must now be completed with the deed of the deed before a notary and with the negotiations with the unions of the chemists both on the future of the 200 employees of the four companies of the M & G group, based in Crescentino in the province of Vercelli, that the effects of this acquisition within the existing Versalis plants in Italy, starting from that of Porto Marghera, also nominated by the current number 1 by Eni, Claudio Descalzi, to become the headquarters of Eni’s nascent “green and organic chemistry” industry.Porto Marghera Versalis Mossi Ghisolfi
The unions of the Venetian chemists are already ready to ask the top management of Versalis the use of patents, unique in the world, of the M & G group concerning the innovative “first generation biofuels”.
The ethylene cracking plant of Porto Marghera (which employs about 400 direct employees), in fact, had already been programmed for final closure (by 2021), but the fall in oil and its derivatives prices led Versalis to keep it active for a few years, on behalf of big companies like Esso.Porto Marghera Versalis Mossi Ghisolfi
The fact is that the old cracking of Versalis is, however, intended for closure, as long as you do not think and realize a different use of the plants and the area they occupy within the Petrochemical of Porto Marghera.Porto Marghera Versalis Mossi Ghisolfi
And it is precisely the “bio” patents of M & G, as the unions of the Venetian chemists of Cgil, Cisl, Uil, wish to find in Porto Marghera their industrial development.
In particular, Versalis could involve the “Proesa®” technology for the conversion of biomass into sugars, the Biochemtex of the M & G Group, which owns the so-called “Moghi” technology which allows the valorisation of lignin-based biomass for the production of chemical products. high added value.Porto Marghera Versalis Mossi Ghisolfi
Lignin is obtained as a by-product of bioethanol production and can be transformed, through this process, into a fundamental molecule for the production of chemical products.
Source : LA NUOVA VENEZIA
