The president of the National Assembly Committee on the National Assembly, Aurélie found (LFI) announced on Tuesday, April 22 at night that she presented a parliamentary investigation commission, in the Vancorex Chemical Company archive, of which only a fraction of the activity and the employees were included in Isère.
“As president of Economic Affairs, I present (…) a request for the commission of investigation to establish the responsibilities of the government and the clients of Vancorex in the company’s settlement,” said Aurélie found in a statement transmitted to AFP.
The Lyon Commercial Court granted on April 10 the resumption of the Vancorex factory, near Grenoble, to its Chinese competitor Wanhua, which will only maintain fifty works of the 450 that the group was initially.
“Our industrial sovereignty is in danger”
The court has considered “inadmissible” a cooperative acquisition project by employees, with the support of an Indian investor, which would have made possible to safeguard more positions and maintain this chemistry business in the French lap.
“Our industrial sovereignty is in danger. The government will have to explain it. I will make a transparty approach,” said Aurélie found that “the abandonment of this production directly threatens” the technological and industrial autonomy of France in sectors as crucial as nuclear, space and defense. “
This argument frequently invoked by supporters of a temporary nationalization, then of the cooperative project (SCIC) carried by employees, is disputed by the Government.
The Minister of Industry, Marc Ferracci, said, on April 13, that “there was no problem of sovereignty”, which indicates that he had found, with the Ministry of the Armed Forces, “solutions to allow our strategic sectors to find alternative sources to provide, salt, chlorine, which occurred.” “
Products used for deterrent missiles
Vancorex products are used in particular for nuclear deterrent missiles and the Ariane 6 rocket, European sovereignty symbol in space.
The minister also assured that he had to have sought “for ten months”, a buyer of all Vancorex activities, whose economic model “did not allow” such a buyer.
Despite the mobilization of local elected officials and employee unions, the Government has taken “has not taken a concrete and effective measure,” said Aurélie, for whom “the costs of abandoning production (displacement, salt rehealth for national defense …) will probably be much higher than maintenance.”
Source: BFM TV
