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Closed since 2019, the Stationery Chapelle Darblay, in Seine-Maritime, could well regain service with the entry of the State to the capital of the recovery project up to 27 million euros, as well as private investors. Employees are hopeful.
On the Chapelle Darblay site, in Grand-Couronne (Seine-Maritime), time seems frozen. The stationery has been stopped since 2019 and it has been six years since Julien Senecal and Cyril Briffault are fighting to relaunch the activity. “We maintained the site and we keep it under surveillance. We check that there are no leaks, no damage”explains Cyril Briffault, CGT Chapelle Darblay union delegate.
An immense 33 hectare site, where the machines seem ready to leave. Some 230 employees worked on site before their dismissal. But a glimmer of hope seems to have: the entry of the state to capital, up to 27 million euros alongside private investors. An encouraging first step: “It will be paper to wave, so more cardboard, but it’s a bit of the same processes”explains Julien Senecal, who specifies that the same staff will be able to “Work on this machine, with a little training”.
But the banks will have to grant an additional loan to investors of 160 million euros to restart paper production in the factory within three years.
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