The Italian company, which has additional factories in Brazil, China and the United States, has a world workforce of 3,000 making starter batteries, motive-power batteries and horns for the automotive Sony VGP-BPS8A battery industry.
Business is improving, FIAMM chief executive Stefano Dolcetta said, noting that "it's been a little bit better in the first three months compared to last year." But he quickly added, "In Europe it is still very slow."Dolcetta made the trip to Hanover by Sony VGP-BPS8 battery road, with three executives sharing the car, and answered Merkel's three minutes of questions in person.
On the other hand, with just over half of its annual sales of 480 million euros (650 million dollars) scored in Europe, its future is tied to European efforts to get sluggish markets Sony VGP-BPS9 , Sony VGP-BPS10 battery moving again.FIAMM, which is based at Montecchio Maggiore in the Venice region, gained a boost Monday when Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany dropped by at its booth and asked about its batteries.
Dolcetta grabbed the chance to tell her about the company's new generation of motive-power Sony VGP-BPS9/B battery batteries, which are driving buses in Rome, Genoa and Bologna and will soon be powering 250 Citroen Berlingo mail-delivery vans at French mail carrier La Poste.
Dolcetta learned only last week from the Italian chamber of commerce that Merkel would be dropping in, followed by a swarm of bodyguards, aides, reporters and camera crews for Sony VGP-BPS9/S battery .Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was supposed to be on the walkabout too, but cancelled the Hanover trip when volcanic ash in the atmosphere prompted a closedown of northern European aviation.
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