350 jobs are at stake!

Placed in suspension of payments on January 15, Fonderie de Bretagne (FDB) has just requested its placement in receivership in order to look for a buyer…

Former subsidiary of Renault which sold it in 2022 to the German investment fund Callista Private Equity, Fonderie de Bretagne (FDB), which produces cast iron parts for suspensions and exhausts, now wishes to be placed in receivership, after being declared insolvent on Wednesday January 15. While waiting for the court decision which should fall this Thursday, more or less 200 employees of Fonderie de Bretagne gathered yesterday in front of the Rennes commercial courtafter a trip from Morbihan in four coaches chartered by the CGT.

Money until April

Because the stakes are high with the key the possible unemployment of 350 employees of the FDB if no buyer comes forward following a favorable court decision to this effect this Thursday. “We are now fighting to save the company in this new context” declared its general director Jérôme Dupont. “A priori, there is money to pay salaries until next April“recalled yesterday to AFP Patrick, 58 years old, including 13 at FDB, while for Catherine, 60 years old, employed since 2001 for FDB’s corporate catering, the outcome seemed more than uncertain: “We don’t have much hope, it’s going to be very complicated.”