2023-11-02 10:32:27
Industry uses water both for cleaning and the making of certain products, foods or drinks, as well as for cooling factories and transporting heat. franco lucato – stock.adobe.com
SURVEY – Chemistry, agri-food, microprocessors… Access to the resource, which is becoming rarer, is an additional challenge for companies in the sector.
He did not hear the echo of the confrontation around the Sainte-Soline megabasin. But last spring, the abandonment by the Le Duff group of its Bridor factory project near Rennes did not go unnoticed among industrialists. The project, which was to create 500 non-relocatable jobs, was the subject of strong protests for its water consumption – 200,000 m³ per year – judged “astronomical” by opponents. Faced with the revolt and the prospect of endless appeals, Le Duff threw in the towel. STMicroelectronics is also facing the challenge at its Crolles site near Grenoble, where the establishment of a new wafer factory for semiconductors, next to the existing one, arouses the distrust of certain activists and the concern of some local elected officials because of water withdrawals on site.
The two examples illustrate the central place taken by this raw material in the same way as energy, labor or metals. “There is a before…
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