(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor Plus) - Padua, July 5th - All 458 employees of the Safilo facility in Longarone are safe. This was announced by the company itself, which in recent months had engaged in a long series of negotiations with some of its historic competitors, also present with their facilities in the same industrial area of Belluno. To absorb the employees, not only Thelios but also the Udine entrepreneur Carlo Fulchir. 'Following the company's previous communications regarding the sale of the Longarone facility,' reads an official note from the company, 'Safilo informs that there are advanced negotiations with entrepreneur Carlo Fulchir who, together with the potential operation with Thelios Spa already communicated, would allow the preservation of the site's know-how and the complete repositioning of the current 458 workers. The company hopes that, thanks to the usual full involvement of social parties and institutions, the entire process can reach a swift conclusion.