It is the first of the Stellantis plants to reopen, already last Monday, with the Assembly unit restarting today. The Stellantis hub in Melfi is scheduled from Wednesday, August 19. It is the Italian plant of the Group with the broadest industrial mission – the Jeep Compass which guarantees the most important volumes and, in sequence, the start of production of the DS7 first, and then the Lancia Gamma, alongside the DS8. The new Alfa Romeo SUV, the fifth model in line, is scheduled to start pre-series in 2027 and begin production in 2028.
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Yet the transition phase is complex from an industrial point of view, so much so that solidarity contracts have been renewed until December 31 for 4,400 employees and the industrial issues represented by maintaining production volumes and the future of the supply chain are far from resolved. For Melfi, say the unions, the 2026-2027 biennium, born between the “reign” of Carlos Tavares and that of Antonio Filosa, will be decisive to strengthen the competitiveness of the plant and the entire supply chain, and it is no coincidence that the reindustrialization agreement for PMC and Brose, involving 150 workers, was closed precisely in Melfi at the end of July. Forefront are therefore investments, innovation, competitive energy policies, and a shared industrial strategy.
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The Pomigliano site where the Fiat Panda is produced, which still today represents half of Stellantis’ production volumes in Italy, has also archived the extension of solidarity contracts for another year for the employees of the Campania site, confirming that the automotive market in Italy and Europe remains in a very critical phase and that the assigned productions are not enough to saturate the installed production capacity. The new production mission assigned to Pomigliano and confirmed by company management concerns the production of the new family of e-cars.
The Mirafiori hub will reopen regularly next Monday, August 24, while the Cassino site extends the production stop until August 31. This is not a holiday or seasonal production stop, but a declared crisis, the unions repeat. The production of Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio at the factory will continue throughout 2027 but volumes are at historic lows: in the first half of the year (Fim Cisl Report) the factory lost a third of production, already low in 2025. All eyes are on the coming months, Cassino’s future is linked to the relaunch of the Maserati brand – today the Grecale SUV is produced – and the industrial plan that Stellantis will present by next December.
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