“Very little was played”: the employees of a Normanda stationery will benefit from support of 27 million euros in the state

The CGT shouts the victory. The State has been involved financially in the project to take care of the Norman Statnsery Darblay chapel for the Fiber Excellence Group, which would have corporated its 200 jobs without the support of the Executive, we learned on Saturday from the Ministry of the Economy.

It emphasizes that this financial support announced up to 52 million euros, “it will be conditioned on the lifting of private funds that excellence in the fiber must now participate.”

The socialist mayors of Rouen and Grand-Couronne, where the factory is located, as well as the CGT, have multiplied interventions with the government to bring this reindustrialization project and the creation of 185 direct jobs.

They considered that a state loan of 27 million euros was necessary to complete the project, transported by fiber excellence, the first French Producer of Pulp Merchant who acquired the site in 2022 with Veolia. Veolia, the number one in the world of water and waste, undertakes to “guarantee the appearance of paper supply and paper recycled boxes.”

A recovery within three years

“We are extremely proud and relieved. It was very little played since the excellence in the fiber was to leave the project on Tuesday if the State did not enter capital,” Julien Seécal reacted on Saturday, Trade Unionist CGT and former secretary of the CSE of Chapelle Darblay.

“Now it lacks private funds of up to 160 million euros, but it is much easier to obtain from banks when the State is in capital. It is a decisive event and the end of a struggle of more than six years,” he rejoiced.

According to Julien Sénécal, the site reference is planned “by 2028”.

“The State is committed, with local elected officials, for the factory project in Chapelle Darblay. This factory project is backed by the territory and the state employees and the Rouen metropolis must now allow the excellence of the fiber to launch the project,” said Marc Ferracci, cited by Bercy.

“The work is bear fruit!”, Spindle the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, thanking Marc Ferracci.