This liquidation affects 124 employees and an estimated 200 indirect jobs, a “huge” figure on the scale of the Meuse territory, underlined Alain Magisson, of the CGT.
Elle “will not go to its centenary”deplore the unions. The Stenay (Meuse) paper mill was placed in compulsory liquidation by the Bar-Le-Duc commercial court, we learned from trade unions on Friday. “The decision has been made, it is judicial liquidation”Alain Magisson (CGT) told AFP after the court hearing. He expressed his “anger” and its “clothes” faced with the announced disappearance of this company which was to celebrate its centenary next year. This liquidation affects 124 employees and an estimated 200 indirect jobs, a figure “huge” on the scale of the Meuse territory, underlined Alain Magisson.
“We are all disgusted. It was our life, stationery. I've been in it for 35 years. Now we will have to bounce back. We have to turn the page, but it’s very hard, it was a family”added Richard Guitton (FO). In 2023, the paper mill was sold by the Finnish Ahlstrom group to the German investment fund Accursia. She was placed in receivership on July 5, 2024.
“We will still fight for the future to attack Ahlstrom and then Accursia, we will not let our colleagues down” said Richard Guitton, “but it’s the hammer blow”. In a press release, the CGT-FO inter-union calls “public authorities and economic players to mobilize to support the revitalization of the territory and offer new perspectives to families affected by this tragedy”.
