Former Ilva, stay of execution rejected: Taranto's hot area to shut down by 28 October

The timetable for the Taranto plant does not shift. The stay of execution requested by the lawyers of Acciaierie d’Italia and of Ilva under extraordinary administration has not been granted: the rejection came from the Milan Civil Court of Appeal on 11 September 2026. The decree of 27 July therefore remains in effect, requiring the hot area to be shut down by 28 October. We reported on 9 September on the Palazzo Chigi negotiating table being interrupted and then resumed.

The decision closes one of the two tracks that the two companies had opened following the July decree. Adi and Ilva had in fact filed an appeal with the Court of Cassation and, at the same time, a request under Article 373 of the Code of Civil Procedure to the same Court of Appeal: it is this latter request — which would have frozen the effects of the measure pending the ruling on legitimacy — that has been rejected. The appeal to the Court of Cassation remains pending, but without a stay of execution the shutdown obligation retains its date.

The second track is political and reopens four days later. Sources at Palazzo Chigi indicated on 11 September that talks between the government and unions will resume on Tuesday, 15 September. It will be the first meeting since the Milan ruling, and it comes with a margin of time that the decree has made measurable: just over six weeks between the reconvening and the 28 October deadline.

On the employment front, the picture remains unchanged. The collective dismissal procedures launched by 28 companies in the supply chain for more than 2,500 workers remain open: a scope that concerns the supplier chain, not the plant alone, and which no measure has so far suspended.

Institutional and union reactions all point to the same step. The President of the Puglia Region, Antonio Decaro, linked the judges’ decision to the need for immediate talks, stating that “the table at the Presidency of the Council must be reconvened with extreme urgency.” From the same side of the table, Fim, Fiom and Uilm stated in a note that “we believe it is essential for the Government to immediately convene the permanent table at Palazzo Chigi.” The available material documents this convergence on reconvening the talks; it does not record, at this stage, any other formalised requests nor a written response from the government to the two positions.

Some points remain uncertain that the 11 September decision does not resolve and that the available sources do not clarify: the timing of the Court of Cassation’s ruling, the technical procedures by which the shutdown of the hot area would be implemented by the deadline, and what tools the government intends to bring to the 15 September meeting. On these aspects the newspaper has no verifiable information and does not anticipate scenarios.

The two dates that now define the case are fixed: 15 September at Palazzo Chigi and 28 October in Taranto.

Sources: l’Adige (ANSA origin); Il Quotidiano del Sud (Adnkronos origin); Geagency (Palazzo Chigi sources); CosmoPolis (Fim-Fiom-Uilm union statement).