(Adnkronos) - De Molli: “Le materie prime critiche sono largamente dominate da un unico paese al mondo, la Cina, la quale ha impiegato 55 miliardi di investimenti globali, non solo per trovarle, ma anche sull'industria di processo delle stesse, che fa la differenza sul piano sostanziale nella competizione globale”. Sono le parole di Valerio De Molli, Managing Partner & CEO The European House – Ambrosetti, intervenendo all’evento “La road map italiana per le materie prime critiche” organizzato da Iren, in cui è stato presentato lo studio commissionato dal Gruppo e realizzato da TEHA Group.
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00:00What is the role of the first-critical materials?
00:04The first-critical materials are largely dominated by a single country in the world, China,
00:09which has invested about a third of its 55 billion global investments
00:15not only in the research of where these first-critical materials are,
00:23but also in the process industry itself,
00:26which makes a substantial difference in global competition.
00:31So, on the one hand, Chinese dominance,
00:34on the other hand, the industry of Made in Italy,
00:37in the most advanced, most sophisticated industries,
00:40which are those of mechatronics, robotics, electronics, aerospace, defense,
00:46well, in these areas, without the first-critical materials,
00:50we will not be able to be competitive,
00:52indeed, we will not be able to be, period.
00:55We will not be able to realize the advanced technological solutions
01:01typical of Made in Italy in these competitive areas.
01:05And then one wonders, but what could we do?
01:08Well, we could do a lot of things.
01:10First of all, accelerate the authoritative procedures
01:14for the development of recycling and reuse processing plants.
01:21Today it takes up to seven years to get approvals,
01:24which is not acceptable.
01:27Not only that, but if we take the summary of a piece of this great world,
01:31of the first-critical materials,
01:33the one related to the so-called RAE,
01:36that is, the rejection of electronic and electrical devices,
01:41what do we discover?
01:43We discover that, compared to the European target of 65%,
01:47we are at 30%.
01:49And what else do we discover?
01:50We discover that volumes have almost doubled in the last decade,
01:54but our ability to recycle and reuse
01:58has dropped from 40% of the total to 30% of the total.
02:01And what else do we discover?
02:03That 84% of Italians have at least one RAE at home,
02:08but they don't know what to do with it, where to bring it, who takes care of it.
02:12So there is not even an acceptable informative and communicative flow.
02:17And what does this lead to?
02:20It exposes the country's system to a risk of a European infraction procedure.
02:25So we are faced with the absurd of the absurd.
02:28It is essential to have the first-critical materials
02:31to support our industrial production.
02:34We risk losing 35 billion added value
02:38only in these four sectors that I mentioned.
02:41And we undergo an infraction procedure
02:44and we don't create that minimum value that is easier to obtain.