The Minister of Industry Roland Lescure will announce it on Monday, November 21 during a visit to the Loiret factory, whose production is stopped.
By Béatrice Madeline
To great evils, the big remedies. To allow the Duralex factory in La-Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin (Loiret), which had to stop production on 1 er November in the face of the explosion of energy prices, to leave , the State will grant the company a bonus rate loan, of 15 million euros. This measure is part of the resilience plan, a device implemented during the COVVID crisis and maintained since, intended to support companies that encounter cash flow difficulties.
The Minister Delegate in charge of Industry, Roland Lescure – he went to the Duralex site for the first time on September 16 – must announce this good news to management and unions, this Monday, November 21, giving Thus a spectacular kick -off to the industry week.
This sum, injected alongside other financial stakeholders in the company, will make it possible to “protect” and “perpetuate this emblematic industrial site of Made in France”, we explain in substance to Bercy, upstream visit. Duralex, which has put the 250 employees of the partial unemployment factory, should therefore be able to resume the production of its famous glasses with proven solidity in April.
The Minister also had to go to one of the industrial sites of the Maury group which notably prints magazines (Paris-Match, Le Point, L’Express) or books on behalf of large publishing houses. The group, which employs 600 people in the Loiret on the two sites of Malesherbes and Manchecourt, saw its electricity bill multiplied by four between 2021 and 2022. The strengthening and prolongation of the aid system in the face of the energy crisis will allow Maury to receive around 10 million euros by the end of 2023, according to calculations by the ministry delegated to industry. The group has already received just over 2 million euros in aid since the start of the crisis.
These announcements follow the statements of the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire on Saturday, November 19. Guest of the program “We do not stop the eco” on France Inter, the mayor had reaffirmed the will of the executive to preserve the French economic fabric. “We protected our businesses during the Covid crisis. We protect them in the face of the rise in electricity and gas prices,” he said. The Minister also announced a new expansion of the field of companies eligible for aid, a relaxation of the eligibility criteria and payment deadlines.
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