“A highly strategic project”responding both to “the imperative need to reindustrialize the country” and at “environmental challenge”East “in danger”, alerted, Tuesday December 17, the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, the mayor of Rouen and president of the Rouen-Normandie metropolis, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (Socialist Party, PS), and the mayor of Grand-Couronne (Seine -Maritime), Julie Lesage (PS), in a joint letter to the new Prime Minister, François Bayrou.
This project? That of a relaunch of the activity of the Chapelle-Darblay stationery factory, in Grand-Couronne. In gestation since 2021 already, “the commitments made [par l’Etat] to support it have been weakened by the changes in ministerial interlocutors”, accuse the authors of the missive, who call on François Bayrou to commit to financial support.
In 2020, its owner, UPM, decided to close the 90-year-old factory, which produces 100% recycled paper from 480,000 tonnes of paper waste per year – the equivalent of what 24 million inhabitants reject. The factory would not be competitive enough, and newsprint would be in structural decline. While a consortium of buyers proposes a reconversion to green hydrogen, the CGT, and its delegates on the site, defend the maintenance of recycling and a reorientation of production towards packaging cardboard, for which demand is increasing. The union is making it an emblematic project of its alliance, called “Never again”, with the organizations Attac and Greenpeace, for environmentally friendly reindustrialization.
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