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Among the route of the railway and the Nera River, the large plain, east of the inhabited centre of Narni Scalo, is almost completely covered by an industrial complex. Almost half of it is occupied by the electrochemical factory of the Elettrocarbonium, later SGL Carbon, for the production of electrodes for electric furnaces.
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The first productive plant in this area was the one of the Società Italiana per la Concia delle Pelli (Italian Tannery Company), built in 1887 on the initiative of Alessandro Centurini. The story of the dell'Elettrocarbonium S.p.A. started ten years later (1897) with the building of the Società Italiana dei Forni Elettrici (Sife, Italian Company of Electric Furnaces) that produced calcium carbide. In 1900 this company launched the Società Italiana dell'Elettrocarbonium (Italian Elettrocarbonium Company) and started the first Italian production of electrodes used in the iron and steel and electrochemical industry. The two companies merged in 1917, creating just one plant for the production of metal alloys, electric furnace and electric carbon. The name “Elettrocarbonium S.p.A” was adopted in 1949 and in 1954 the first plant for the gravitation of electrodes started operating. The afflux of capital from the German Siemens permitted to start the new expansion that stopped at the beginning of the ‘70s.
