“Saxony-Anhalt is almost a ‘textbook example, in one of the economically weakest federal states, of how industry acts as a bulwark of democracy’,” says the vice-president of Confindustria

The company is renovating its historic factory in Mandello Lario: it is increasing production capacity and, in addition, opening a museum, a shop and a café. The impression is that Milan and Lombardy remain central to Italy’s development