Cassino Plant Shutdown Extended as Alfa and Maserati Order Slump
Stellantis Halts Production Until August 29 Due To Weak Demand
Production at Stellantis’ Cassino Assembly Plant in Italy has been officially shut down once again, and this time the lights won’t be coming back on until at least August 29, 2025. The news comes straight from Italian labor union Uilm-Uil, which confirmed that the facility has halted operations amid an ongoing collapse in demand for three key vehicles: the Alfa Romeo Giulia, Alfa Romeo Stelvio, and the Maserati Grecale, including its all-electric Folgore variant.
This isn’t a scheduled maintenance break—it’s a full-blown pause driven by a lack of new orders.
The situation is nothing short of critical. Cassino, once a crown jewel in Italy’s auto manufacturing network, is now barely running. Over the first six months of 2025, the plant produced just 10,500 vehicles, marking a 34% drop from the same period last year. In the last month alone, it only managed a single full production week, with the rest of the days either cut back or shuttered entirely.
Originally, Stellantis planned to begin its annual summer shutdown on August 4, but due to the worsening order situation, the company moved it up by nearly two weeks, halting all operations back on July 23.
According to the union, Cassino has now been shuttered for nearly half of the working days in 2025, and workers are operating under constant uncertainty. The 2,500-strong workforce is currently stuck on a single daily shift, a sign of how underused the plant has become. The union’s leadership, particularly Secretary Gennaro D’Avino, has been vocal in calling out Stellantis for treating the workforce like “flexible parts,” lacking protections, transparency, and clear direction.
D’Avino is pushing for a national discussion around the plant’s future, demanding a credible business plan that includes solid production targets, defined investments, and real employment guarantees. At the heart of this uncertainty is Stellantis’ STLA Large platform, which will eventually underpin next-generation models—but those won’t arrive before mid-2028, at the earliest. While there’s some hope that development might accelerate and bring new products by 2027, nothing has been confirmed.
To keep things afloat, Alfa Romeo CEO Santo Ficili has confirmed that special edition variants of both the Giulia and Stelvio will launch in 2026, potentially with updated styling and added features. These limited-run versions are aimed at sparking some short-term sales activity to bridge the gap until the EV replacements arrive.
Even so, unless Stellantis moves faster on its EV plans or slots another product into Cassino’s pipeline, the plant will likely continue to face stop-and-go production cycles. It’s a frustrating limbo for a facility that not long ago was supposed to anchor the premium Italian strategy for Alfa and Maserati.
Right now, Cassino isn’t just idled—it’s at risk of slipping deeper into crisis, and for the people who build cars there every day, that’s not just a headline—it’s their livelihood.
