The disarray of a company faced with soaring electricity prices: “At this rate, there is no longer any future”

Created in 1860, the Dechaumont Foundry, located in Muret (Haute-Garonne) near Toulouse, has seen energy crises. But people like that, probably never. “We’ve been manufacturing road parts for 162 years,” explains Jean-Baptiste Dechaumont, 45, seventh generation at the head of the company. Mainly manhole covers, as well as the grids that surround the trees in our cities, for France, but also for Belgium. »