2.
AREAS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY: THE ASI OF DITTAINO
According to
the online database SIFLI (Informative System of the Factors of
Enterprise Localization – www.sifli.info) of the IPI (Institute for the
Industrial Promotion), concerning the areas of industrial development in
Southern Italy, there are 25 industrial poles with areas available for new
possible productive settings. Despite the approval of the town-planning scheme
and the creation of the first infrastructures for a total extension of 2,848
hectares (28,480,000 m2), only 144 hectares (1,440,000 m2)
are actually available, 10 (100,000 m2) of which
in the ASI Dittaino in Enna.
The
ASI Dittaino appears as a productive area with a multi-sectional destination,
meeting the demands of productive settings of different kind, with significant
advantages, first of all the low cost of acquisition of plots, one of the
cheapest in the industrial areas in the South of Italy.
The
low cost for the acquisition of plots (€2.88 +IVA per square metre) combines
with more positive factors playing a relevant role in the choice of a setting
area, such as the short acquisition time (three months), the presence of all
facilities, the accessibility of the area, the easy connection to the most
important centres for sorting goods (ports, airports, railway stations), the low
cost for water and energy supplying, the high quality of facilities for the
enterprises, the excellent standards of safety and legality.
For what the last is concerned, it is
worth pointing out that in the year 2002 the province of Enna was placed second
in the list of the safest provinces in Italy on the grounds of a survey on the
quality of life conducted by the important economic newspaper “Il Sole 24
Ore”,
and
confirmed this excellent position in the survey of the following year. In
particular, very reassuring rates of criminality were surveyed in the province
of Enna, with a very modest percentage of thefts and burglaries.
The
Area of Industrial Development (A.S.I.) in Dittaino is located in the territory
of the communes of Enna (18 Km far from the city centre, where 28,954
inhabitants live) and Assoro (12 Km far from the city centre, where 5,389
inhabitants live). The area is a convergence point of the railway and motorway
traffic in Sicily, favoured by the railway crossing with a goods yard, of the
Palermo-Catania motorway, with a junction which is now being completed, and is
connected to the Enna – Piazza Armerina – Gela clearway and to the Enna -
Catania national road.
The
big cities of reference are CATANIA (312,205 inhabitants), just 64 Km far, and
PALERMO (686,045 inhabitants), 147 Km far.
The
average altitude on the sea level is 280 metres. The area is classified as
middle-seismic.
The
total extension of the area, updated to March 2004, is 310.00 ha (3,100,000 m2),
of which: 180.00 ha (1,800,000 m2) are indicated in the town-planning
scheme as industrial plots, 29.00 ha (290,000 m2) as productive
handicraft, 26.00 ha (260,000 m2) as productive tertiary, 15 ha
(150,000 m2) as facilities.
The
available area is 70 hectares (700,000 m2), of which 10 (100,000 m2)
are immediately available and there is not any maximum limit for the acquisition
of plots.
With
regard to the town-planning legislation, the rate between the covered area
extension and the total extension has to be 50%, while the distance from the
borders has to be equivalent to the height of the buildings (minimum 6 metres).
There are no limits to the maximum height of the buildings.
A
relevant fact of attraction is the shortness of the time for the assignment of
the plots. Only three months pass after the application (to which the technical
economical project of the initiative must be attached) is submitted, and the
assignment is deliberated by the general director of the ASI.
Times
for the issue of the building licenses is 30-45 days for plots belonging to the
commune of Assoro; about two months for those belonging to the commune of Enna.
2-5 months are necessary for the issue of authorizations, tests, permissions
in order to start the productive cycle.
Industrial
sheds can also be rented or purchased. In particular about 2,000 m2
of rustic buildings are available.
For
what ports and airports are concerned, the ASI Dittaino, like the whole province
of Enna, refers to the ports of Catania and Termini Imerese, within easy reach
by motorway A19.
The detail of
the distances in Km follows:
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Ports:
PALERMO:
Km 147; GELA: Km 75; CATANIA: Km 64.
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Airports:
CATANIA
FONTANAROSSA: Km 64; PALERMO PUNTA RAISI: Km 178.
-
Railway:
Palermo
– Catania Line (Railway station of Dittaino with goods yard) just 0.5 Km far.
It is worth
underlining the effort of ASI Dittaino in order to assist from the institutional
point of view those enterprises willing to achieve a direct connection of their
factory to the railway line.
Actual
facilities
The ASI is
endowed with an auditorium providing 300 seats, with a large parking, and a
professional training centre.
INNER
INFRASTRUCTURES
ROADWAY
The national
road 192 crosses the Northern area of the agglomerate, skirts its North-West
side and, together with the industrial road surrounding the Eastern and Southern
side of the agglomerate it forms a link road. Both the streets are linked to the
Palermo – Catania A19 motorway by the junction that is being completed. In the
Northern area the inner roadway and the service roads for the plots have been
completed.
RAILWAY
The railway
station of Dittaino, with its goods yard and with a sorting area, is located on
the Northern side of the agglomerate; a railway sidetrack has been realized in
favour of the factories SIPEM, IPRA and
OMB.
ENERGY
The factories
can connect directly, with their own rooms, to the ENEL line at 20 KW, serving
the entire agglomerate. A middle-voltage cableway and one for telecom services
has been realized in order to serve the whole area.
METHANE GAS
The
distribution network serving the entire agglomerate and adducting to the main
trans-Mediterranean pipe and the decompression room have been realized and are
effectively active. Because of the actual lack of the “odorization” system,
only the industrial usage is allowed, while connections for civil usage and
handicraft firms are not allowed.
WATER SUPPLY
AND COSTS
The drinkable
water network and the accumulation reservoir with adduction pipe from the EAS
aqueduct, which provides 2 l/sec, has been realized; potential availability is
10 l/sec. Another industrial water network with pipe adducting from the
Nicoletti dam, which provides 10 l/sec, has been realized; further availability
of 85 l/sec. The cost of drinkable water is € 0.52/m3 up to a
maximum use of 130 m3 per three-month period; € 0.72/ m3
for further use. The cost of industrial water is € 0.26 m3 up
to a maximum use of 1000 m3 per three-month period; € 0.08/ m3
for further use.
SEWER SYSTEM
The system of
sewer for white waters is effectively active; the sewer system for water has
already been realized but is not effective yet. At the moment the factories
drain in the catch basin of white waters and, then, in the Calderari stream,
subject to factory water depuration.
DEPURATION
AND ITS COSTS
Two
purification plants, on the right and on the left of the Calderari stream, with
capacity of 750 m3/h, have been realized but are not active yet. The
activation of one of the two purification plants is about to happen. No costs
are ascribed for the drain of refluent waters due to the fact that factories
carry out the depuration on their own.
