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Abstract

The Components Sector was structured on the basis of six “Clusters”. The first Cluster, later named Comind, united four Companies that produced car bodywork parts: Stars owned a large modern factory in Villastellone, near Turin, specialized in plastic parts, such as instrument panels, steering wheels, seats and the like; soon it was also manufacturing bumpers in SMC (a new “plastic material”) instead of metal ones; Siem, a producer of headlights and rear lights, was located in the area around La Venaria, the House of Savoy’s old hunting village, in a factory that had once belonged to Snia Viscosa; Ages, also located in Villastellone, was specialized in rubber parts; Cavis was in Felizzano, in the province of Alessandria, co-owned by the Codrino family, and it produced wiring, steering column switches (those complex affairs fitted around the steering wheel) and other contraptions that were not very congruent among themselves.