suffocated by rising energy pricesThe famous Duralex glassware, as planned, will put its oven on hold for five months starting this Tuesday, November 1, and will place all its employees on partial unemployment for save energy and preserve your finances, until April 1.
The company had indicated in September that it had been facing “very unfavorable financial production conditions for several months, linked only to the price of energy”, which broke out after russian invasion of ukraine.
“It was better to turn off the oven than to produce at a loss, it is the first time we have seen that,” laments a factory employee interviewed on Tuesday by BFMTV. “But we are confident thanks to a full order book and state support.”
partial unemployment
Remember that the La-Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin plant, near Orleans, runs 70% on gas and 30% on electricity.
During the five months of closure, employees will be partially unemployed and will receive 95% of their salary. Enough to maintain confidence even if some employees wonder about energy prices in five months.
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The tempered glass specialist claims to have enough stock to continue business “normally” during the shutdown of its furnace, which also responds to calls from the government to limit industrial energy consumption during the winter.
The famous glass factories had been redeemed in extremis in January 2021, after being declared bankrupt a few months earlier by International Cookware (Pyrex), which became Maison Française du Verre earlier in the year.
Created in 1945 by Saint-Gobain, the glass factory on the outskirts of Orleans employs 250 people and in 2021 had a turnover of 23.4 million euros.
Source: BFM TV
