flags, Italian and Romanian, waving, side by side. And now hundreds of meters is the word "meeting", printed in red letters. Behind this monumental entrance arch develops the largest industrial area in Timisoara, built by the Italian Society Meeting Precast, precisely, an offshoot of the Romanian province of Brescia Montichiari Lombard. Judging by the number of warehouses, at 15:30, end time round, there should be a great move. Instead, yards from the bus are going away half empty. Among the missing workers, in fact, certainly the nine hundred employees of Technic Development, the Romanian factory of the Italian manufacturer of shoes Geox. In June of 2009 the company with a turnover in excess of € 35mililioni realized 5% of the total share of "shoes that breathe" as sold, was sold to Vt Manufacturing, a supplier of Geox. The owner, an Italian, Vincenzo foresters had undertaken to summarize all the staff. After almost a year, there is none. "Employees Geox? They are all gone. Gone. "Spreads his arms to the caretaker.
The departure of Mario Poletti Polegato, which took place without much fanfare, marking the end of an era. With his arrival in Romania, the relocation of the footwear district Montebelluna, which began in the 90s, had made a quantum leap.
"I Venetian shoe manufacturers, especially in the province of Treviso, were the first to arrive, shortly after the collapse of the Ceausescu regime and the opening of borders - explains Scroccaro Alessandra, a young researcher at the Venetian for the University of Montpellier is studying Italian investments in the region -. But it was also the first to go. " The flight was to begin, in fact, already three years ago, even though the official figures show, on the contrary, a small but steady increase in Italian companies. "Those numbers are not reliable since they include also bogus companies were born only to real estate transactions - claims Gianluca Testa, 49, former head of household appliances factory in Romania Zoppas, now manager of an electronics Italian-English. "The truth is that in 2007 with the arrival in Europe of Romania, a skilled workforce has emigrated to Italy, France, Germany and wages of the workers remained in their country have increased. Those who came here looking for a cheap labor force or has closed or went elsewhere, in Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova. Timisoara is the time for time of big corporations. But Italians are not more of the game. "
in the picture: a bus past the former factory in Timisoara Geox
published in Future, May 30, 2010
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