2024-12-17 21:33:00
Saving a paper recycling site: François Bayrou challenges state support to materialize
The mayors of Rouen and Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime) and the CGT urged Prime Minister François Bayrou on Tuesday to materialize state support for the project to take over the Chapelle Darblay paper mill, under penalty of jeopardizing its almost 200 jobs Work.
“Without positive signal from the State by December 20th”Canadian president of the Fiber Excellence group, which purchased this paper recycling site together with Veolia, “will abandon this reindustrialization project”are alarmed, in a letter addressed on Tuesday to the prime minister, the president of the metropolis of Rouen-Normandie, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of Grand-Couronne, Julie Lesage, and the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet. The project includes a new production unit and “the creation of 185 direct jobs”recall the signatories of this letter, according to whom a state loan “27 million euros” East “necessary to complete this project”.
“The State will be there”the outgoing Economy Minister, Antoine Armand, promised during a question to the Government Assembly at the end of November. But, he added, “the size of the financing requires the search for other private actors”.
In their letter, the elected representatives of Norman and the CGT underline that the amount of state support deemed necessary, initially estimated at 43 million euros, could be “largely decreased”therefore at 27 million euros, thanks to the separation of assets “energies” et “stationers” of the site. They add that this operation would enable Fiber Excellence “to more easily complete the financing of the project”. “As layoff plans increase and our sector struggles, we need good news to show that deindustrialisation is not inevitable”conclude the authors of the letter.
The outgoing Industry Minister, Marc Ferracci, and his cabinet “I am in permanent contact with elected officials, trade unions and management”the Ministry assured Agence France-Presse.
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