The mayors of Rouen and Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime) and the CGT on Tuesday pressed the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, to concretize the State’s support for the project to take over the Chapelle Darblay paper mill, under penalty of jeopardize its nearly 200 jobs.
“Without positive signal from the State by December 20”the Canadian president of the Fiber Excellence group, which bought this paper recycling site with Veolia, “will abandon this reindustrialization project”are alarmed, in a letter addressed Tuesday to the Prime Minister, the president of the Rouen-Normandie metropolis, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of Grand-Couronne, Julie Lesage, and the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet. The project provides for a new production unit and “the creation of 185 direct jobs”recall the signatories of this letter, according to whom a State loan “27 million euros” East “necessary to complete this project”.
“The State will be there”had promised the resigning Minister of the Economy, Antoine Armand, during a question session to the Assembly government at the end of November. But, he added, “the scale of the financing requires finding other private actors”.
In their letter, Norman and CGT elected officials emphasize that the amount of state support deemed necessary, initially estimated at 43 million euros, could be “largely diminished”at 27 million euros therefore, thanks to the separation of assets “energies” et “stationers” of the site. They add that this operation would allow Fiber Excellence “to complete the financing of the project more easily”. “While layoff plans are increasing and our industry is struggling, we need good news to show that deindustrialization is not inevitable”conclude the authors of the letter.
The resigning Minister of Industry, Marc Ferracci, and his cabinet “are in permanent contact with elected officials, union organizations and management”assured the ministry to Agence France-Presse.
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