Cristel, specialist in high-end kitchen utensils, will open a second manufacturing web site | EUROtoday

On the highway lined with forests which results in the village of Fesches-le-Châtel (Doubs), two deserted brick and stone buildings will quickly come again to life. Typical of nineteenth century manufacturing facility structure, this industrial wasteland is to be taken over by the Cristel firm, positioned a couple of hundred meters away. The sale should be finalized Thursday February 26. Cristel plans to put in, on the three,700 sq. meters in complete, a second manufacturing line, made obligatory by the acceleration in demand for high-end chrome steel pots, pans and pots. A historic nod, since this land as soon as hosted one of many websites of the Japy empire, the second French firm underneath the Second Empire and ancestor of Cristel. It was right here, in 1826, two centuries in the past, that the primary industrially stamped pans had been produced.

The buy of this wasteland feels like fairly a revenge for Cristel and its 133 workers. The firm has come a great distance: closed in 1979, Japy was relaunched three years later by its former workers, within the type of a employees’ cooperative. But the SCOP, confronted with a couple of setbacks such because the sale of the model and the disappearance of the shopper file, discovered itself in issue and was positioned in receivership in 1987. Determined to not let the work software deteriorate, an accountant, Bernadette Dodane, and her husband, Paul – the inventor of the detachable deal with for frying pans and saucepans – took over the corporate that very same yr, pledging their two homes to finish the financing. Today, Cristel stays in household fingers: three generations work there. Just a few companions, all pure individuals, full the shareholding.

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