Although they had been unaware of the difficulties of Arc France, the unions left surprised from the extraordinary CSE which was held this Wednesday, January 7 in Arques (Pas-de-Calais). While in December the administration of the well-known glassworks was nonetheless reassuring, it introduced to them that it was requesting the corporate’s receivership from the Lille industrial court docket, which accepted it within the afternoon.
It is ” the only possible legal framework to enable Arc to adapt sustainably to a profoundly degraded market environment”assures the general director of Arc France, Nicholas Hodler. Despite yet another refinancing and recovery plan validated in April 2025 by the courts, “our model must still be transformed in depth (…)by reviewing our industrial plan and therefore reducing our workforce”. A massive blow for employees.
Created in 1825 in Arques, the glassmaker employed up to 12,000 people, more than the population of the town near Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), which has 9,500. If it now has factories in China, the United States and the United Arab Emirates, it is here that Arc France still supports an entire territory and employs 3,500 employees, despite the size in the numbers that followed one another.
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