Wider has announced that building plans for its new shipyard in Fano, Italy, are on track to start up production in early 2023. The heavy foundation work for the 18,000 square-metre seafront site between Fano’s fishing port and the tourist marina is now almost complete.
“The new shipyard will be a real innovation centre,” said Marcello Maggi, who heads up W-Fin Sarl, the holding Company that owns 100 percent of Wider equity. “It’s where all our future boats, new green technologies and new ideas coming from start-uppers will come to life in full compliance with environmental issues.” 
The new high-tech facility plans to embody Wider’s vision for a new sustainable nautical world, with solar panels on the roof that are expected to make the facility virtually self-sufficient in renewable solar power. 
Although the final cladding materials for her outline are still being selected, the slats that cover the exterior walls will likely be of bamboo-based Wood Plastic Composite that is 100 percent recyclable, resistant to humidity and UV light, and does not deform or discolour over time.
Marcello Maggi was keen that local firms should benefit from the investment of the Fano shipyard in the area. He chose the crisp contemporary design of local architects Alessandro Massari and Mauro Cavicchi of the Massari Design Architecture Studio to conceive and develop its design. 
“The brief was for a structure based on sustainable principles and striking design that also provided the kind of the functional efficiencies associated with modern boat building processes. “It’s not easy to design something that is beautiful but also practical from an industrial perspective,” commented Alessandro Massari.
The building will stand 14-metres high with its profile broken up by large glass surfaces that will flood her interior with plenty of natural light. The seaward-facing exterior wall features a stylised outline of Wider yacht that looks like it is floating in the marina.
The design allows for materials, components and completed yachts to be moved in and out of the shed via four enormous doorways on each of the two sides facing the east and west of the building.
The first project to be assembled in the new facility, will be the WiderCat 92, the 28-metre power catamaran series designed by Luca Dini and Wider Centro Stile. The facility will be equipped with a travel lift and also includes 350 linear metres of quayside. “This new shipyard will be a pole of excellence not only for the city of Fano, but also for the Italian boatbuilding industry,” concluded Marcello Maggi.