The challenge to revive the Chapelle-Darblay stationery obtains the assist of the State, “key stage” in an industrial file with twists and turns | EUROtoday

The challenge to revive the Chapelle-Darblay stationery obtains the assist of the State, “key stage” in an industrial file with twists and turns
 | EUROtoday
The Chapelle-Darblay factory, in Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime), September 22, 2022.

The street remains to be lengthy till the exercise of the Chapelle-Darblay stationery is resumed in Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime), however its supporters need to consider that “Key step” Finally has simply been crossed. After months of lobbying the CGT and native communities, and an ultimatum from the industrialist fiber excellence threatening to throw within the towel by Tuesday June 10, the State lastly undertook in writing to financially assist this emblematic challenge in multiple title, throughout yet one more assembly in Bercy, Friday, June 6.

A “Magnificent victory”proof that “The union struggle pays”praised the CGT in a press launch, recalling “ The time it took to avoid the destruction of this industrial flagship ” :: “2,096 days, 5 years, 8 months and 26 days”.

The project is indeed carried since the origin by the CGT representatives of the factory, the only survivors of the closure of the site announced at the end of 2019 by its owner UPM (228 layoffs). The nonagenarian factory which then produces 100 % recycled paper from 480,000 tonnes of paper waste per year – the equivalent of what 24 million inhabitants reject – is not considered competitive enough, and the request for newspaper declines. While a consortium of buyers offers a conversion in green hydrogen, the CGT builds an alternative plan and makes it the flagship project of its “by no means once more” alliance with the ATTAC and Greenpeace organizations, for an environmentally friendly reindustrialisation.

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