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Tuscany, for centuries in the future

Automotive

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You know • How strategic it is to select highly skilled automotive personnel to design and manufacture your products.

• How difficult it can be to rely on specialized and trustworthy suppliers in high-level automotive components, systems and integration.

• The importance of identifying increasingly innovative processes and products in the automotive industry.

in Tuscany you can!

• Recruit young talents and experts of the highest level, graduates in technological disciplines in the university hubs of Pisa and Florence, at the forefront of the world in research areas such as engine manufacturing, robotics and ICT. • Manage the intermodality and global logistics of products, components and semifinished products relying on an articulated infrastructure of logistics and transport hubs. A regional platform of high efficiency that has its strong point in the Pisa-Livorno area, thanks to the virtuous convergence in a limited geographical area of a railway junction, a motorway junction, the Pisa airport, the Livorno-Piombino port system and a 1st level freight village.Work with suppliers highly specialized in high quality production that have been able to combine handcrafted production with industrial logics making Tuscany one of the greatest centres for example of luxury leather goods.

excellence grows up

Since

Since Tuscany is ranked the fourth region of Europe of the Future 2020/2021 for its attractive potential (Financial Times, February 2020), and it is one of the natural places of settlement of new initiatives and productive activities in the automotive sector, coming from all over the world. A highly specialized landscape that counts some of the largest international players in the components and supply of first, second and third levels:

MAGNA

• Tuscany has a high availability of qualified human capital in the engineering and technology area.

RHEINMETALL

• Tuscany has launched an extensive programme of public mobility policies that favour the birth of new business models, and therefore of new companies in the automotive industry that will benefit from the presence and access to historical and structured skills of the territory.

TRW

• In 2011, at the opening of the Florence Research Centre, the Yanmar general director, Hiroshi Kanda, said, “Why in Tuscany and not elsewhere? For the kindness and warm welcome of the institutions, for the beauty of the places, but above all for the high quality of university education and research that Tuscany can boast.”

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KNORR - BREMSE

YANMAR

in a land where The high concentration of production and research settlements guarantees a favourable context to inclusion in value chains and activation of partnerships between companies. Tuscany is studded with a widespread network of competence centres, production plants and advanced research and development facilities, some of them among the first in the world. All at the service of entrepreneurs and operators active in the automotive sector, from whatever country they come from, whatever their size is, regardless of their level of maturation. A widespread and extensive distribution with some points of natural concentration where affinities, complementarity and integration of the various subjects, including service networks, have given rise to specific clusters.

Dynamic companies in the supply chain All companies in the supply chain

In particular, with regard to the most advanced frontier of development and advanced models of sustainable mobility, Tuscany is above the European average, qualifying as a territory of extreme interest and in favour of launching innovative entrepreneurial initiatives.

ÂŤRevealed Comparative Advantage IndexÂť (Europa = 1) Smart mobility

1,07 Sustainable urban mobility

2,32 Components and systems for electric mobility

1,69

first-class standards The main economic indicators confirm the competitive positioning of Tuscany, both in the national and international context, making it one of the best European and global destinations to invest in R&D and service and production activities. With all the advantage of settling in one of the most evocative places in the world.

4%

Of total Tuscan exports

150

Companies

16.000 Employees

suit your needs.

The Tuscan economic fabric can meet all the different investment and expansion needs of your business, providing sectoral expertise and dedicated infrastructures for the functions and areas of operation and specialties that most affect your organization’s investment objectives:

Research & Development For your R&D initiatives, the main research and development centers that you can find in Tuscany are the following: • The Interuniversity Center for Research and Services on Technologies and Vehicle Engineering (UCAR University Center for Automotive Research “Corradino D’Ascanio”) gathers around itself specialized engineering skills offering the possibility of carrying out research projects in partnership with the universities of Pisa and Florence http://www.ucartuscany.it/index.php/. CNR. • ICCOM (Institute of Chemistry of Metal Organ Compounds www.iccom.cnr.it), of particular expertise in Fuel Cell technologies, nanostructured materials based on metals, high-tech polymer materials.

Business Services The Advanced Manufacturing Technology District of the Tuscany Region is among the top-level services for companies in the sector. It works in the transfer of innovation and technological development for small and medium-sized enterprises. Besides, it offers audit services, top-level feasibility studies, development of the conceptual phase of project, technical design services, organizational system change, production and supplier chain improvement, advanced certification.

Technical Support Centres In addition, the MOVET represents an important reference point for the functions of extended scope service. It gathers 13 industrial companies (including some Fortune 500 multinationals), six university departments and two specialized research centers, to offer the Automotive system established in Tuscany a dedicated platform of innovation, technology transfer, and market development.

• MOVET Motor, Vehicle and Technology Initiative Center www.movet.org.

Logistics With 75% of the Italian market less than 400 km away, and a dense network of iron and rubber infrastructure for fluid logistics of people and products, Tuscany ranks among the main logistical nodes of the country. In addition, the presence of three seaports, including the Livorno platform (one of the best performing and most integrated at European level), facilitates connections with the rest of the world and with the rest of Europe. In particular, it allows a substantial saving of time to and from South East Asia and immediate access the main European corridors.

Manufacturing Tuscany can be considered as a competitive laboratory for the automotive components industry, where new forms of collaboration between companies and the research system for the development of highly innovative products are being experimented and developed, in particular towards the new frontiers of mobility and transport.

Motorways

Rail Infrastructure

Motorways provide good transports links througout Italy:

An execellent, rapid rail link system guaranteeing:

• 2 key north-south motorway axes (the A1-E35 Milano-Roma and the A12-E80 Genova-Livorno)

• 1 east-west motorway (A11-E76-Viareggio-Pistoia)

Ports 2 commercial ports in Livorno (7th Italian port, 6th for cointaner traffic serving all the major ports in the world) and Piobino, in close proximity to other major Italian ports.

• 50 daily links between Florence and Rome (1 hour 31 min)

• 24 daily links between Florence and Milan (1 hour 35 min)

• 17 daily links between Florence and Venice (2 hour 5 min)

Airports 2 major international airports, Pisa and Florence, for passengers and freight, with numerous daily flights to major italian and Europen cities.

You know, in Tuscany you can!

Since excellence grows up in a land where first-class standards suit your needs.

Tuscany, for centuries in the future.

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